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Ferguson police created ‘toxic environment’ Darren Wilson

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Abandoned trailers at Rudd’s Trailer Park on Jefferson Davis Highway on South Side present an inviting target for vandals. Below, a view through a trailer’s broken window shows the destruction inside.

Home sweet home?

that exploded in August when former Ferguson Officer Darren WASHINGTON Wilson fatally shot 18-year-old A U.S. Justice Department Michael Brown. investigation found sweeping “This investigation found patterns of racial bias within a community that was deeply the Ferguson, Mo., police depolarized, a community where partment that targeted Africandeep distrust and hostility Americans and created a “toxic often characterized interacenvironment,” with officers tions between police and area routinely using excessive force, U.S. Attorney General Holder residents,” Mr. Holder told issuing petty citations and makreporters. ing baseless traffic stops against them.

“Of course, violence is never justified,” Mr. But even in the face of a plethora of problems, Holder said. “But seen in this context — amid the federal probe cleared a former white police a highly toxic environment defined by mistrust officer in the fatal shooting of an unarmed black and resentment, stoked by years of bad feelings, teenager there, Attorney General Eric Holder and spurred by illegal and misguided practices said Wednesday.

— it is not difficult to imagine how a single The report said police officers in the St. Louis tragic incident set off the city of Ferguson like suburb overwhelmingly arrested and issued a powder keg.” traffic citations to African-Americans to boost The killing of Mr. Brown and other unarmed city coffers through fines, used police as a colPlease turn to A4 lection agency and created a culture of distrust

Bedden to stay in Richmond Dr. Bedden also forwarded the 107word message to members of his leader“Everyone should check your ship team, Boston Mayor Marty Walsh emails,” Richmond School Board memand the seven-member Boston School ber Jeffrey M. Bourne eagerly alerted Committee, which was to meet about

By Joey Matthews fulfilling their duties by issuing a plethora of his colleagues late Tuesday afternoon an hour later to select its new schools violations to residents at selected mobile home prior to a hastily called board budget superintendent from its four finalists, Is the city on a code enforcement witch parks they deem hazardous to ensure they meeting. which included Dr. Bedden. hunt to force vulnerable Latino citizens upgrade their homes for safe habitation?

The six other board members in The email stated: and other poor people to move from The answer depends on whom you ask.

Dr. Bedden attendance then quickly turned to their “I am honored to have participated their mobile homes, which are for many This week, officers from the city’s Buhand-held electronic devices and scrolled to an as one of the finalists in the superintendent search a residence of last resort? email sent to them by Richmond Public Schools process in Boston and meet with the mayor, Or are code enforcement officers merely Please turn to A4 Superintendent Dana T. Bedden at 5:07 p.m. school committee and other stakeholders. Over the past few weeks I have been engaged in much reflection and deliberation.

“Given the importance of this type of work and the extensive support I have received to become the East Coast hub for the beer brewer and restaurant through its economic development arm

By Jeremy M. Lazarus from the Richmond leadership teamed with the state to offer substantial subsidies. while allowing the company to pay back the estimated and community, I believe it is In its California hometown, Stone Brewery is a Among other things, the city is providing land $31 million expense over 25 years at government instandout in San Diego’s burgeoning craft beer market, for the brewery plant and the company’s future beer terest rates — rates far below what other businesses best for me to withdraw from this process. To be successful in with Stone’s two beer gardens ranking as important garden that the city believes will ignite growth. leading a large school district, tourist lures.

Please turn to A4 The city also is building the company’s plant and Superintendents need the full The company boasts that only the renowned San support of the community they Diego Zoo and the LEGOLAND amusement park are serving. I wish you and the attract more visitors to the Navy port city with 4 Boston community success as million people in the metropolitan area or four times you move forward.” the population of metro Richmond.

Dr. Bedden also sent a sepaStone’s success in the West has led Richmond to rate message to the Richmond bet millions of dollars that the company can bring School Board and his leadership that same kind of business magic to this community team at the same time: — a view that a coalition of nearly 70 Richmond “As the superintendent of restaurants finds hard to accept.

Richmond Public Schools, just Nonetheless, Richmond’s city officials view Stone as as I have before and during this a catalyst for growth, particularly for the city’s eastern process, I will continue the work riverfront — a key reason Richmond aggressively sought we have started on building a better school division for our students and staff.”

Meanwhile, the Boston School Committee voted 5-2 during its 6 p.m. meeting to select Tommy Chang to lead Virginia State University Athletic Director Peggy Davis, right, celebrates with the Trojans’ women’s Associated Press basketball team following its 73-49 blowout of Lincoln University in the CIAA Tournament the city’s 128-school system of Virginia’s 2015 legislative session is over. championship game last Saturday in Charlotte, N.C. more than 57,00 students.

Lawmakers adjourned last Friday after passing Dr. Chang, 39, currently is an VSU women’s legislation at the last minute aimed at tightening the instructional superintendent in basketball coach state’s ethics rules for public officials and curbing the Los Angeles Unified School James Hill Jr. sexual assaults on Virginia’s college campuses.

District’s Intensive Support and exuberantly signals The ethics reform proposal puts a $100 cap on Innovation Center. his team is No. 1. gifts lawmakers can accept — including meals, The Boston Globe reported entertainment and travel — from lobbyists and their late Tuesday Mayor Walsh had clients, or others seeking to do business with the state. indicated through sources he Lawmakers were spurred to reform the state’s ethics would support Dr. Chang to berules following the conviction last year of former Gov. come the new superintendent.

By Fred Jeter Bob McDonnell on federal corruption charges.

Whether that influenced Dr. Delegate Todd Gilbert, R-Shenandoah County, Bedden’s withdrawal decision Virginia State University’s women’s basketball said the legislation struck the right balance between is unknown. Through a school team picked the right time and right place for its restoring the public trust and not deterring honest spokesperson, he declined a best basketball of the season. people from seeking elected office. Delegate Gilbert Free Press request Wednesday The Trojans not only won their first CIAA said lawmakers must come to terms with the fact that to elaborate on his reasons for tournament since 2002, they won in a blowout, public office now comes with more scrutiny. staying in Richmond. routing Lincoln University 73-49 at Charlotte’s “We are living in a brave new world,” he said.

The Free Press first reported The ethics overhaul would take effect Jan. 1, Please turn to A4

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Trailer park under pressure for repairs

City betting millions on brewery

General Assembly ends with stronger ethics law

VSU women bring home CIAA crown

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Hicks to become city judge July 1 It’s official.

David M. Hicks, Mayor Dwight C. Jones’ senior policy adviser, is going to be a judge in Richmond.

The General Assembly elected him Feb. 25 to the Richmond General District Court bench, effective July 1, for a six-year term.

The Free Press disclosed in January that he was the choice to replace Judge Phillip Hairston.

Judge Hairston will be moving up to the Richmond Circuit Court on July 1. He also was elected last Wednesday by the General Assembly for an eight-year term. He will replace Judge Melvin R. Hughes, who is turning 70, the mandatory retirement age Mr. Hicks for state court judges.

Mr. Hicks, 54, said he was approached last summer about his interest in serving on the court and agreed after his wife supported the decision.

One result is that he will not be involved in the 2016 race to succeed Mayor Jones, though it is not clear that he would have run even if the judicial opportunity had not come about.

Slices of life and scenes Two members of the Richmond delegation, Sen. A. Donald in Richmond McEachin, D-Henrico, and Delegate Manoli Loupassi, R-Henrico, ZVRI (z18) Richmond Free Press were among key legislators who supported Mr. Hicks for the judgeship.

Mr. Hicks is a former Richmond commonwealth’s attorney.

— JEREMY M. LAZARUS

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Did Richmond Public Schools officials ignore potential health dangers from mold at Elkhardt Middle School long before the South Side school was shut down and the students transferred to the former Clark Springs Elementary School?

That’s what attorneys for a group of parents, teachers and staff members want to find out in laying the groundwork for a possible lawsuit.

On Monday, attorney Stephen C. Piepgrass of Troutman Sanders law firm, filed a freedom of information act request with the school system seeking all records, documents and correspondence related to health issues and indoor air quality dating to 2002 on the Elkhardt and Clark Springs buildings.

In the four-page request, Mr. Piepgrass stated “there had been environmental problems at Elkhardt in the early 2000s. …

Additionally, we know that RPS knew of leaking steam pipes at the school sometime before August 2014.

“We know that students, teachers and staff were exposed to dangerous mold — and perhaps other environmental contaminants,” he stated, prompting the decision last month to close the school.

He indicated that the School Board and administration has so far “refused to provide medical exams” to those impacted by the mold, despite the potential liability from inaction.

Paul Goldman, an attorney also involved in the case, said people affected by the mold have “the right to know what the board and administrators knew about the health issues at Elkhardt and when they knew.”

The school system has not commented about the FOIA request.

School system policy, however, is not to comment on issues that involve or could lead to litigation.

Superintendent Dana T. Bedden previously has said that he and his staff learned about the mold problem at Elkhardt in late January and acted quickly to relocate the students, teachers and staff. — JEREMY M. LAZARUS

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Lamont Bagby is giving up his seat on the Henrico School Board to run for the Virginia House of Delegates.

Mr. Bagby, 38, announced Wednesday he will again seek the Democratic nomination for the 74th House District, the district that Delegate Joe Morrissey now represents. The district includes a sliver of Richmond, the eastern part of Henrico County and all of Charles City County.

Mr. Bagby said he would be an “advocate for education” if elected.

Others are expected to enter the race, including David Lambert, president of an optical company and son of the late Benjamin J. Lambert III, a longtime Richmond state senator. Mr. Lambert has said he plans to run, but has not formally announced.

Also said to be considering a bid is the Mr. Bagby Rev. Leonidas B. Young, a former Richmond mayor and founding pastor of New Kingdom Christian Ministries. Rev. Young, an ally of Delegate Morrissey, was not immediately available for comment.

Meanwhile, Delegate Morrissey, who is now fighting felony charges, has yet to announce his plans. He ran as an independent to win a special election in early January to keep his seat. His trial is set for late April. Anyone convicted of a felony cannot hold public office.

This will be Mr. Bagby’s second bid for the House seat. He sought the Democratic nomination for the special election, but lost to Charles City farmer and former labor leader Kevin J. Sullivan, who ultimately lost in the special election to Delegate Morrissey.

Mr. Bagby is a former teacher and administrator for Henrico Public Schools and a former basketball coach at Henrico High School.

He currently is director of operations for the Peter Paul Development Center in Church Hill. The center provides programs for senior citizens and intensive after-school tutoring for about 150 young people in the city’s East End. He also is a member of the Norfolk State University Board of Visitors.

His decision to run for the House seat is expected to set off competition for his Fairfield District seat on the Henrico School Board.

The lone black member of the School Board, Mr. Bagby has served for seven years or nearly two terms. His current term ends in December. — JEREMY M. LAZARUS

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VSU women win Continued from A1

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In the semifinals, VSU drubbed Shaw University 69-47, denying the Bears a shot at a fifth consecutive crown.

Now VSU will carry an overall 20-9 record into the NCAA Division II Atlantic Region Tournament. Pairings will be announced March 8.

Based on history, few could have predicted VSU would defeat Lincoln with such gusto. On Jan. 21 during regular season play, Lincoln defeated VSU 72-61.

VSU’s senior 6-foot center Tiffanie Adair was named the CIAA Tournament Most Valuable Player.

The transfer student from North Carolina A&T University scored just four points in the final, but grabbed eight rebounds.

Her long-arm defense largely was responsible for Lincoln shooting 27 percent (17-63).

Senior guard Da’Shae Jones had 11 points, six steals and three assists and was named to the All-Tournament team. Cana Marriott had 14 points and connected on four of VSU’s nine 3-balls. DeAnna Waters added 15.

Virginia Union University’s Lady Walker, a sophomore, also made the All-Tournament team.

The Trojans’ rooting section included R&B singer Tank. The entertainer, whose given name is Durrell Babbs, cheered on the players while wearing an orange and blue VSU T-shirt.

Bedden to stay Continued from A1

in its Feb. 19-21 edition that Dr. Bedden was pursuing another superintendent’s job at a larger school district outside Virginia.

Dr. Bedden left Tuesday’s board meeting at City Hall in Richmond after about 20 minutes and made no public statements on his decision to withdraw from consideration from the Boston job.

Meanwhile, Richmond School Board members were delighted to learn he is staying.

“This is great news,” Board Chairman Donald Coleman, 7th District, beamed after learning Dr. Bedden was staying.

“I’m very excited,” added board Vice Chair Kristen Larson, 4th District.

“It’s big that he withdrew his name,” said Mr. Bourne, who represents the 3rd District. “It means he wants to stay in Richmond and continue the job he started here.”

They spoke with a Free Press reporter shortly after the meeting where the board voted 6-1 to approve Dr. Bedden’s $286 million budget request that will be forwarded to City Council for consideration.

Dr. Bedden’s decision to remain in Richmond will please those who fervently sought to publicly sway him to stay.

That list includes Gov. Terry McAuliffe and state Secretary of Education Anne Holton, who met with him last week before he went through a series of interviews in Boston.

More than 800 supporters also signed an online petition asking Dr. Bedden to continue his bid to turn around Richmond’s struggling schools.

“This is an exciting time for the city,” said School Board member Kimberly B. “Kim” Gray, 2nd District. “We feel the support of the community and are happy that Dr. Bedden is staying to keep the momentum going forward.”

Board members Tichi Pinkney Eppes, 9th District, and Mamie Taylor, 5th District, arrived about 40 minutes after the board meeting was to begin and did not vote on the budget. Both told a Free Press reporter they had previous commitments.

Asked to comment on Dr. Bedden’s decision to pull his name from consideration for the Boston job, Ms. Pinkney-Eppes said, “I was shocked that he had applied. But now that we know that he’s staying, it’s time for us to hunker down and get some work done.”

General Assembly ends Continued from A1

2016 — six months later than the standard July 1 date for new legislation and after the November election in which all 140 seats in the General Assembly will be on the ballot.

“We wanted to be certain that all legislators and, frankly, candidates that may be running in the elections this fall have an opportunity to familiarize themselves with this,” said Senate Majority Leader Tommy Norment, a Republican from James City County and the Senate patron of the legislation.

Lawmakers also passed legislation aimed at making sure allegations of sexual assault on university campuses are reported to local police and prosecutors. It requires that the information be reported to a campus review committee and, if it is found necessary to protect the health or safety of the victim or the public, passed on to the police immediately.

Some lawmakers wanted to go further and mandate that all assault allegations be reported directly to the police. But they stopped short of that because of constraints in federal law and concerns that a blanket mandate might discourage victims from coming forward.

The General Assembly also passed a related measure requiring that a notation be placed on the transcript of any student who is suspended, dismissed or withdraws from school because of violating the school’s code of conduct.

The measures came partly in response to the abduction and murder of University of Virginia student Hannah Graham last year.

This year’s two-month legislative session was probably most notable for what it lacked: A single high-profile, hot-button issue such as Medicaid expansion, transportation funding or any of the other contentious topics that have dominated lawmakers’ debates in past years.

Instead, Republican leaders in the GOP-controlled General Assembly tried to focus on what they called “kitchen table” issues, such as trying to reduce fees for college students or increasing pay for state workers and teachers.

Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe said he was pleased that many of his top priorities on education and economic development were approved this session.

“We put Virginia in a great place to move forward,” Gov. McAuliffe said.

But the governor’s attempt to put new gun control laws in place, including a one-handgun-a-month purchase limit, failed.

With support from lawmakers across the political spectrum, the General Assembly passed several measures aimed at reining in the power of police to carry out surveillance on citizens.

The bills would prohibit police from keeping data collected by automatic license plate readers for more than seven days and require a warrant for the use of drones and devices called stingrays, which are used to track cellphone data.

And to replace “Carry Me Back to Old Virginny,” which was retired in 1997 because of its nostalgic references to slavery, the General Assembly adopted two new official state songs: “Our Great Virginia,” a version of the folk song “Oh Shenandoah” updated with new lyrics, as the traditional state song, and “Sweet Virginia Breeze” as the popular state song.

City betting millions on brewery Continued from A1

must pay.

The company, itself, is to invest $42.7 million in beer production equipment and furniture, but will benefit from a lease in which its payments will be fixed, a contrast with other restaurants that face an escalation in rent almost every year.

As Mayor Dwight C. Jones and his administration sees it, Stone’s operations will create a major anchor in Fulton that will pay off in expanded tourism and a wave of private development — a vision that has enraptured Richmond City Council, which voted 9-0 Monday to allow the transfer of public property to advance the effort.

The specific property: The vacant Intermediate Terminal building in the 3100 block of East Main Street, the site that will be the future home of the company’s restaurant.

“This development is going to expand the market,” insists Lee Downey, Richmond’s chief development officer, in explaining the importance of Stone’s arrival.

He said that Stone’s beer gardens are a proven draw that will bring more people into the city and encourage more investment.

Mr. Downey said he has started hearing from developers who are intrigued by the Stone development and consider the area ripe for apartment, condo and retail development.

That’s the point Mr. Downey is now trying to get across to the coalition of skeptical restaurant owners who see the city providing major help to a competitor they consider a threat to take their customers and kill their businesses.

Dirk Graham, owner of Bottoms Up Pizza, is among those deeply concerned about a future that includes the Stone Brewery bistro and beer garden, an operation that would be among the largest restaurants in the area.

He said his business in Shockoe Bottom — once the star entertainment district for the region — is still recovering from the recession. He said his business has fallen off 25 percent, and having a big competitor backed with city funding will

not help.

Michael Byrne agrees. He once operated the Richbrau craft brewery and restaurant in Downtown and is now an executive with the Tobacco Company restaurant in Shockoe Slip. He helped pull together the opposition coalition and believes that Stone’s success will come at the expense of existing restaurants.

Mr. Downey acknowledges that down the road, when the Stone restaurant opens in three to five years, there could be an initial hit to existing restaurants as locals try the new place.

But he said in his view, locals will return to familiar haunts, while more people come from farther away to check out Stone and Richmond.

He also believes the Stone development will once again make Richmond attractive to river cruises and reawaken interest in restoring Intermediate Terminal to expand the city’s role as a boating destination.

One thing is certain — it will be years before taxpayers know whether the bet pays off or proves to be another bust.

Ferguson police created ‘toxic environs’ Continued from A1

African-American men by white police officers touched off a national debate on race, led to ongoing street demonstrations and amplified long-standing complaints in Ferguson and across the country of police harassment and mistreatment of people of color. It also prompted the Justice Department probes.

Those incidents also have ignited ongoing demonstrations in Richmond, led mostly by a diverse group of young people, that have sparked a series of community meetings known as “Peeps & Police Community Conversations” between the city’s residents, new Richmond Police Chief Alfred Durham and his department’s more than 700 officers to try and prevent incidents of police brutality.

Mr. Holder, who is stepping down soon as attorney general, called for wholesale and immediate change in the way Ferguson operates.

The Justice Department investigation began shortly after Mr. Brown’s slaying. The findings are based on interviews with police officers and residents, a review of more than 35,000 pages of police records and analysis of data on stops, searches and arrests.

The 102-page report found that Ferguson’s lack of racial diversity — only

four of 54 commissioned officers are African-Americans — undermined community trust.

It also found that the city relied heavily on fines for petty offenses, such as jaywalking, to raise revenue. Police interpreted “innocent movements as physical threats” and engaged in practices that overwhelmingly affected minorities and reinforced patterns of racial bias, it said.

In a city where African-Americans make up about two-thirds of the population, the report stated, they accounted for 85 percent of the total charges brought

by Ferguson police, and more than 90 percent of arrests.

The document was filled with examples of what it called a discriminatory criminal justice system. One African-American woman spent six days in jail because of a parking violation, it said. A lawful protest was broken up with a police warning of “everybody here’s going to jail.” And a black man sitting in a car with tinted windows was accused of being a pedophile by an officer who pointed a gun at his head.

Also, between 2012 and 2014, AfricanAmerican drivers were more than twice as likely as others to be searched during routine traffic stops, but 26 percent less likely to be carrying contraband.

The report also found that officials

swapped racist emails and jokes without punishment. Seven racially tinged emails were included in the document. The writer of one 2008 email stated that President Obama would not be in office for long because “what black man holds a steady job for four years.”

The report led to fresh calls for Police Chief Tom Jackson and the city’s mostly white leadership to step down.

“He absolutely should not have that job anymore,” said St. Louis-area lawyer Brendan Roediger, who has helped represent some of those protesting police actions.

Federal officials also confirmed on Wednesday they could not find a civil rights reason to prosecute Mr. Wilson, who also was not charged by a Missouri grand jury for the shooting. He resigned from the Ferguson police force in November, citing concerns for safety for him and his family.

Lesley McSpadden and Michael Brown Sr., parents of the slain teen, said the decision not to pursue federal charges against Mr. Wilson disappointed them. But they said they were pleased the report could cause changes in Ferguson and other parts of the country.

“If that change happens, our son’s death will not have been in vain,” they said in a joint statement.

Trailer park under pressure for repairs Continued from A1

reau of Permits and Inspections began trailer-by-trailer inspections at the 106-unit Mobile Towne Mobile Home Park off Old Midlothian Turnpike. Mobile Towne, like many of the city’s eight other mobile home parks, has a large Latino population.

It is the city’s second inspection sweep of a big mobile home park during the past year.

Douglas H. Murrow, the city’s commissioner of buildings, told the Free Press inspectors are going to mobile home parks that are “in the worst overall condition.”

He said they look for code violations, such as banned alterations to the premanufactured structures and alterations of the electrical, plumbing or mechanical systems that have not been inspected by code enforcement officers and leave the mobile homes unsafe.

The city began this latest inspection campaign in February 2014 when Mr. Murrow directed six inspectors to comb through Rudd’s Trailer Park off Jefferson Davis Highway in South Side for safety violations. Mr. Murrow said he chose Rudd’s after fires at two mobile home parks in recent years revealed “life-safety issues.” One of those fires occurred at Rudd’s in 2012.

Ronnie Soffee, the 67-year-old co-owner and manager of Rudd’s, said the city has unfairly targeted his mobile home park for a decade and has intensified its efforts during the past year.

“They’ve been increasing the pressure,” with the ultimate goal to get “me and the Hispanic people out of this neighborhood,” Mr. Soffee said.

Last year, code enforcement officers, accompanied by police officers, inspected nearly 100 operational trailers at Rudd’s and issued about 740 safety violations.

Mr. Soffee said about 20 mobile homes were condemned and many residents were evicted and forced to leave their mobile homes because they could not afford to pay to upgrade them to meet code requirements. Others just left, he added, out of frustration or fear they could be next.

Mr. Murrow said displaced residents are referred to the city’s Department of Social Services for assistance.

A year later, Mr. Soffee said Rudd’s is now down to “50-some” rent-paying mobile home residents and not all of them pay the entire amount due each month. “I tell them to pay whatever they can,” Mr. Soffee said.

He said he’s also in arrears on water

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City code enforcement officers began inspections at Mobile Towne Mobile Home Park on Old Midlothian Turnkpike on South Side this week.

bills and city real estate taxes, with the unpaid amounts on each well in excess of $10,000. He said he has made payments the best he could as increasing numbers of rent-paying residents move out. He showed a Free Press reporter two separate water bills from the city threatening to cut water service to park residents early this month if he did not pay at least $16,000.

“I don’t have that kind of money,” Mr. Soffee said.

He said he has requested an extension to come up with the money, but is not sure whether the city will disconnect water services or not.

“I’m such a nervous wreck. I can’t sleep,” Mr. Soffee said. “My stomach is in knots. I try to tell people we’re doing the best we can.”

Meanwhile, a 16-member group of churches, nonprofit organizations and other service providers known as the Mobile Home Park Coalition, which formed last spring to aid residents at Rudd’s Trailer Park, is working to provide financial assistance to displaced residents, according to Phil Storey, an attorney with the Legal Aid Justice Center.

He said the coalition, without investigating Rudd’s assessment value or other financial details related to the park, offered Mr. Soffee $200,000 to purchase the park, but that Mr. Soffee declined their offer in the fall.

“The property is assessed at $2.2 million,” Mr. Soffee told the Free Press. “I told them they might as well be wearing masks because they were trying to rob me.”

According to city records, the 9.2-acre site is assessed at $2.46 million, with the land valued at $2.28 million and the 117 mobile homes and a small house collectively valued at $180,000.

Mr. Storey said the coalition also has

separately offered to provide $300,000 for “immediate repairs” at Rudd’s, contingent on the city agreeing not to condemn any more mobile homes at Rudd’s. The offer also would hinge on Mr. Soffee providing residents a three-year lease fixed at the current rental rate that also gives residents the right to terminate their lease with 30 days notice.

Mr. Soffee also declined that offer.

He said he has not asked the coalition for assistance, and he believes they have undermined some of the Rudd’s residents’ confidence in him.

He said he has paid to bring nearly 100 electrical pedestals outside of mobile homes up to code since the inspections began last year and is working to keep the park functioning with his limited resources.

He said the park was “thriving” and “children were always outside playing” before the city inspections began. He wistfully recalls residents marching through the trailer park in December 2013 holding candles and thanking God they had a place to live.

“Now, this place looks like something out of a horror movie,” Mr. Soffee said.

“People have broken into the empty trailers and stolen everything out of them that they could. Broken glass and other debris are everywhere.”

Mr. Storey said the coalition hopes to secure funding to help displaced Rudd’s residents.

“We’re going to do all we can to help those residents,” Mr. Storey vowed.

He said the city inspections at Mobile Towne this month “put scores more families at risk of displacement.”

The city issuing more safety violations at another mobile home park while Rudd’s residents continue to struggle “is very unhelpful,” he added.

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Crutcher hailed as new UR president The historic nature of the appointment of Dr. Ronald A. Crutcher as the next president of the University of Richmond was not lost on people attending last Friday’s public ceremony at the Robins Center to welcome him to campus.

Dr. Crutcher, accompanied by his wife, Dr. Betty Neal Crutcher, and their adult daughter, Sara, received a standing ovation from the audience of about 1,500.

The Cincinnati native, renowned classical cellist and president emeritus of Wheaton College in Massachusetts is the 10th president and the first African-American selected to lead the private, liberal arts university, which was founded in 1830.

He will succeed current President Edward L. Ayers on July 1.

Several African-Americans in the audience hailed Dr. Crutcher’s appointment as a significant step forward for diversity at the university, where about 9 percent of the students are African-American and only 20 of the institution’s 400 full-time faculty are African-American.

“The fact that he’s African-American and the first to hold that position is significant, but it’s also not surprising,” said Dr. Alvin J. Schexnider, who served on the faculty with Dr. Crutcher at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in the 1980s.

“This is an extraordinarily good fit for the university and for Dr. Crutcher. It’s exciting to see this confluence of events at this stage in the university’s history,” he said.

“He’s exceptionally well prepared for this job. He’s a solid academician and outstanding leader. The University of Richmond is fortunate to have him,” added Dr. Schexnider, who formerly

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New University of Richmond President Ronald A. Crutcher and his wife, Betty, receive a standing ovation at his welcome ceremony at the Robins Center.

served as president of Thomas Nelson Community College, interim president of Norfolk State University and chancellor of WinstonSalem State University. He now has a management consulting firm in Chesapeake.

“As we celebrate Black History Month, it’s even another treat to have a leader in higher education bring more diversity to the university,” said former astronaut Leland Melvin, a UR alumnus

and member of the university’s Board of Trustees.

“It’s a celebratory moment for the university. To have the first African-American president-elect, it opens up doors across the board for more opportunities for diversity,” said Lindsey King, a Hampton University graduate and member of UR’s communications office since 2011.

Mary Allen, a junior majoring in sociology at UR and graduate of Richmond Community High School, said, “As an AfricanAmerican, it’s very exciting to me. I believe he’ll bring great leadership to the school, and I’m excited he’s a music professor.

I think he’ll bring a lot to the university in that capacity.”

Patricia L. Rowland, the rector of the board of trustees, introduced Dr. Crutcher as committed to “advancing diversity in its many forms” and praised him as someone who “would build upon Richmond’s remarkable foundation.”

Wearing a mile-wide smile, Dr. Crutcher strode to the podium in a blue UR ball cap and red Spider bow tie. He was celebrating his 68th birthday last Friday as well.

“The University of Richmond represents the very best that American higher education has to offer,” Dr. Crutcher said during remarks lasting 10 minutes.

He said he was drawn out of retirement to UR, which has about 1,600 undergraduate students, because of its “commitment to academic excellence” and because “this is a place that is deeply committed to opportunity, to providing access to the most talented young people regardless of their background or their financial circumstances.”

RRHA reviewing new sites to relocate Fay Towers

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

The Frederic A. Fay Towers once again seem to be upholding the city housing authority’s reputation for slow-moving development projects.

Instead of breaking ground last summer as promised, the Richmond Redevelopment and Housing Authority is still struggling to determine the site where it will build a replacement for the aging high-rise in Gilpin Court, just north of Downtown.

Slow is not unusual for RRHA, which took 40 years to redo the Randolph and Fulton communities.

The authority is on its way to completing the Blackwell redevelopment after 18 years, but is still struggling with a Jackson Ward redevelopment effort that began 25 years ago.

And only one portion of a Highland Park redevelopment on Dove Street has moved ahead after six years, a project that is supposed to be a model

for creating a mixed-income community.

Fay Towers was supposed to be different. It was supposed to be a model of speed.

Before she was ousted a few weeks ago, RRHA CEO Adrienne Goolsby vowed to show what the agency could do after it won a Rental Assistance Demonstration award in 2013 from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

HUD created the demonstration initiative to cut red tape and free up RRHA and other housing authorities to create public-private efforts to replace outdated buildings.

RRHA seemed to be responding. By October 2013, RRHA had hired a Washington-based nonprofit, Community Preservation and Development Corp., to spearhead the plan to replace the 200-unit Fay Towers, a problem building whose elevators and heating and cooling equipment need replacement.

CPDC moved quickly to buy the foreclosed

and vacant Brookland Park Plaza apartments in Highland Park and to secure low-income housing tax credits to help finance an overhaul of the building, a former elementary school.

By April, “we anticipate closing and starting construction on the first 77 units of replacement housing in the former Brookland Park Elementary School building,” according to Valena Dixon, RRHA spokeswoman.

The work is expected to take a year, CPDC officials have said. When finished, some of the tenants from Fay Towers would be relocated to the Highland Park building.

CPDC also hoped to start work at the same time on Phase II, the construction of 123 new apartments to replace the units in Fay Towers.

In May 2014, Ms. Goolsby identified the new location as Charity and Saint James streets, a block of land in Gilpin Court that RRHA previously bought and cleared of its former buildings.

However, that site apparently is no longer

the first choice. In a recent email to the Free Press, Ms. Dixon stated: “At this time, RRHA and partnering developer (CPDC) are working through due diligence items and reviewing other sites for feasibility.”

She added that RRHA and the developer are “currently reviewing the financial structure of the second phase … and determining if we have an opportunity to improve and expand our Rental Assistance Demonstration program.”

Once that is done — and she provided no date — she stated that RRHA and CPDC would complete development plans and then seek HUD approval. Only then would development proceed, she stated.

According to CPDC, the initial site for the 123 units fell by the wayside after RRHA learned that it would have to be rezoned to allow for a larger apartment complex. At this point, the company indicated that Phase II of the Fay Towers project could be on hold for another two years.

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leased; Ms. Fleming is completing her sentence.

The trio also completed at least one college class at the jail.

The scholarship covers the cost of tuition, fees and books for one three-credit course at VCU after release, with the aim to encourage the winners to go on to earn a degree.

“Not only are we making history with these scholarships, but we are making futures,” said Sheriff C.T. Woody Jr. at a Feb. 25 ceremony. VCU Dean James Coleman joined in presenting the scholarships.

The scholarships are named for John Patrick Dooley, the late father of John David Dooley, who has taught and led the jail’s education programs for 36 years. Both are VCU alumni.

Mr. Dooley, among other things, leads the jail’s adult From left, Christian Brackett, Pinetta Fleming and William basic education and GED “Billy” Scruggs were awarded scholarships for a class at programs. The GED program Virginia Commonwealth University. has enabled 2,200 inmates for a class at Virginia Commonwealth University, to earn their high school equivalency certificate which partners with the jail in a college-level since 1973.

In recent years, Mr. Dooley, with the sheriff’s program called Open Minds.

Mr. Brackett and Mr. Scruggs have been re- support, has added college courses through Open Three current and former inmates at the Richmond Justice Center have won the first scholarships awarded through the city jail’s unique college programs.

Christian Brackett, Pinetta Fleming and William “Billy” Scruggs were awarded scholarships

Minds and Virginia Union University’s Inside Out Program.

In each program, faculty teach a class inside the jail that includes students from their respective school as well as inmates.

Open Minds was started in 2011 with a VCU grant.

Mr. Dooley and Dr. David Coogan, an associate professor of English, co-administer Open Minds.

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According to the suit, the jail’s medical service staff and deputies knew Mr. Woodson was suffering from fever and heat-related illness, but took only minimal steps until he had to be rushed to the hospital.

According to the suit, his core temperature was determined to be 108.5 degrees at the VCU Medical Center, where his life was saved.

The suit alleged that Mr. Woodson and other inmates on the medical tier did not receive heat breaks to go to the air-conditioned dining room and had less access to water and fans compared with inmates in the general population when the building’s temperature spiked.

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Stefan Woodson nearly died from a heat stroke in July 2012 while serving time in the old Richmond City Jail.

Left mentally and physically disabled, the former Marine has agreed to accept more than $3 million from the City of Richmond and Richmond Sheriff C.T. Woody Jr. to settle his federal lawsuit that charged the damage he suffered resulted from inadequate care that amounted to “cruel and unusual punishment.”

The settlement disclosed by Mr. Woodson’s attorneys ranks among the largest ever in a Virginia case involving inmate health issues. The city has not issued any comment, nor has the Sheriff’s Office.

This is at least the third case in recent years that has cost the city and the Sheriff’s Office millions of dollars as the result of a death or injury to inmates because of conditions in the old jail that was replaced and demolished last year.

Unlike the city’s new justice center, the men’s area of the old jail was not air-conditioned. Summer temperatures inside the old facility could spike above 120 degrees, despite the installation of industrial fans.

The settlement agreement in Mr. Woodson’s case was reached after a federal judge rejected the city’s request for the case to be dismissed, allowing it to proceed to a jury trial.

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Whipping up war, disrespect If we needed further proof of the Republican disrespect shown to President Obama, the nation witnessed the latest insult Tuesday with the visit of Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Washington, where he addressed a joint session of Congress.

His appearance was at the invitation of House Speaker John Boehner, a Republican who flouted protocol and decency by neither consulting nor informing the White House first.

We had hoped that Mr. Boehner or Mr. Netanyahu would have come to their senses and either canceled or postponed the event.

But the fact that they went ahead with the address shows the disdain they both have for President Obama and his authority.

Politicians both in the United States and Israel thought the invitation and the speech both inappropriate and ill-advised, in part, because of its timing. Mr. Netanyahu is up for re-election in two weeks and could use the platform to increase his chance of winning, while the United States — through Secretary of State John Kerry — currently is in delicate negotiations with Iran over its possession of nuclear technology. By having the hawkish prime minister to speak, Mr. Boehner would only undermine President Obama and his administration’s efforts to negotiate a deal with Iran.

In a nearly hourlong address to a chamber filled with applauding Republicans, Mr. Netanyahu slammed President Obama’s diplomatic initiative for peace. Playing up the fear factor, the prime minister charged that instead of stopping Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons, President Obama’s multilateral proposed nuclear deal would “pave Iran’s path to the bomb.”

He said the U.S. should demand that Iran stop its aggression against neighbors and its threats to annihilate Israel.

While most foreign dignitaries who address Congress bring messages of harmony and accord, Mr. Netanyahu’s rhetoric served only to fuel Republican efforts to turn the question of negotiations with Iran into a divisive political issue, along with a senseless script about who loves Israel best — the Democrats or the Republicans.

After Mr. Netanyahu’s speech, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Republican, moved to push to the floor next week legislation that would require President Obama to submit to Congress for a vote any deal the United States signs with Iran to curb its nuclear program. Proposed legislation also would restrict President Obama’s authority to waive any of the current economic sanctions against Iran, allowing Congress 60 days to review any such plan.

The danger is not in negotiating with Iran. The danger is in listening to Mr. Netanyahu, whose plan to protect Israel includes drawing the United States and a host of other nations into military action against Iran.

His brand of politics is whipping up further division in a Congress already paralyzed by partisan extremism. And his fear mongering and warmongering may drive Iran from the discussions now taking place in Geneva, Switzerland.

As one veteran said, “I don’t appreciate Republicans placing our security in the hands of a foreign leader just because they hate our president.”

The GOP’s animosity for President Obama is pushing us toward more war and a path of regret. If the debacle of Mr. Netanyahu’s visit teaches us anything, it should be the importance of working across the political aisle — and the globe — for peace.

To the quiet heroes Our thoughts turn to Earl Lloyd, the Virginia native who, in October 1950, became the first African-American to play in the NBA. Mr. Lloyd died last week at age 86.

Growing up in Alexandria, he played basketball in the run-down facilities of a segregated high school that had no gymnasium. Basketball was played in the auditorium. In college at West Virginia State, he played in the CIAA, helping his team to championships in 1948 and 1949.

His skills, however, shined through any obstacles. The Washington Capitols drafted him in 1950, making him one of three African-Americans to integrate the NBA beginning that year. By virtue of the schedules, he was the first of the three to play.

The team played in towns where racial segregation in public restaurants prevented him from eating with his teammates.

Mr. Lloyd, a quiet hero, didn’t get bitter. He got better.

He helped the Syracuse Nationals win the 1955 NBA title, joining teammate Jim Tucker as the first African-American players to play on a championship team. He later became the first African-American assistant coach with the Detroit Pistons in 1968, and became the Pistons’ head coach in 1971.

Today, 76 percent of all NBA players are African-American, according to 2013 stats. And 43 percent of all head coaches in the NBA are African-American.

It’s because of people like Earl Lloyd — the steady workers — that progress is made. We are surrounded by quiet heroes — parents, grandparents, cousins, aunts and uncles — who have a story to tell. Their lives lived steadily and quietly have forged inroads so others who come after can benefit.

Another quiet hero: Katherine Johnson of Hampton, a 1937 alumna of West Virginia State.

Now 96, Mrs. Johnson was a research mathematician and scientist at NASA’s Langley Research Center who calculated trajectories for America’s first space flight with Alan B. Shepard in May 1961. Her work, done during an era before computers, helped put the first man on the moon in July 1969.

She started with NASA’s forerunner in 1953, when there were few women and even fewer African-Americans. She worked in a pool of mathematicians who were segregated by race and gender. Her 33 years with NASA, which began before the Mercury project and ended with the initial phase of the space shuttle, opened the doors for others.

Because of Mr. Lloyd and Mrs. Johnson, we enjoy progress today on numerous fronts.

So how do we honor them?

By striving for excellence in our own work and lives. By holding the course when the road gets rough. By learning and understanding our history. By encouraging people of all ages.

By holding the ladder so others can climb, too. By not being a silent witness to injustice in any form. By understanding that a pure heart has no color and “friends” come in all shades.

By opening the doors of opportunity wide, so others can go through for years to come.

Rest in peace, Earl Lloyd.

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The GOP’s acting-the-fool dynamic Among the formal definitions for “acting the fool” is: One who is deficient in judgment, sense or understanding.

Perhaps the dictionaries should add a new one: Today’s Republican Party.

February was a great month for those who think the GOP has become a dustbin of ideological extremists with no commitment to actually getting things done in Washington, elected officials easily led into ethically questionable dealings, and office-holding crackpots with bizarre beliefs about some of the most important issues of the day.

For example, in Congress, the GOP leadership has been frantically trying to tamp down House conservatives’ threat to force a shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security over President Obama’s executive order on immigration. At the 11th hour, they kicked the can down the road by providing only a week of additional funding.

On the crime front, Maureen McDonnell, Virginia’s former first lady, drew a lenient sentence of a year and a day in

prison for her participation in the tawdry petty corruption scheme that also led to the conviction last year of her husband, former Virginia Gov. Robert McDonnell. Once considered

Obama] was brought up by a white mother, a white grandfather, went to white schools, and most of this he learned from white people.” The “this,” he implied, was President Obama’s “socialism or possibly anticolonialism.”

Lee A. Daniels By last week, however, Mr. Giuliani had penned an oily a prime contender for the 2016 op-ed in the Wall Street Journal GOP presidential nomination, meekly stating he “didn’t intend Mr. McDonnell himself was to question President Obama’s been sentenced in January to motives or the content of his two years in prison. heart. My intended focus was For comic relief, there was the effect his words and his acthe Idaho Republican state tions have on the morale of the representative who, seem- country and how that effect may ingly confused about the female damage his performance.” anatomy, asked a doctor during Of course, the article was a legislative hearing whether a sure sign that conservawomen could swallow small tive movement chieftains had cameras to help doctors do warned him of the damage he remote gynecological exams. was doing to Republican efforts But a lion’s share of media to get its 2016 presidential priattention on the GOP for much mary sweepstakes off to a good of the month was, rightly, start and deal with its intra-party devoted to former New York rebellion in Congress.

City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani’s New York Daily News colclaiming that President Obama umnist Linda Stasi had the best “doesn’t love America” because succinct take on Mr. Giuliani’s he “wasn’t brought up the way actions in suggesting “Perhaps you were brought up and I was it’s megalomania-infused narbrought up through love of this cissism with an overlay of overt country.” racism?”

Amid the immediate blowShe’s right that Mr. Giuliani back, Mr. Giuliani then made was reflexively following the the cable news show rounds the standard GOP script of the last following days to double down seven years: When you want to that his comments couldn’t be grab public attention and the called racist “since [President plaudits of the conservative

Dems need winning formula Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel just got spanked. Despite a campaign war chest of more than $15 million and the support of President Obama, the former congressman and White House chief of staff could not avoid a runoff in the non-partisan election.

Garnering 45 percent of the vote to runner-up Jesus “Chuy” Garcia’s 34 percent, he did not clear the 50 percent bar for victory. Mr. Emanuel, the darling of the mainstream Democratic Party, has earned the dubious distinction of being in the first Chicago mayoral runoff in nearly 20 years. He also runs the risk of being the first incumbent mayor ousted since Harold Washington beat Jane Byrne in 1983.

Mr. Emanuel’s loss is a major setback to the Democratic establishment. Voters are tired of income inequality being acknowledged, with nothing being done about it. Their only recourse is the vote, and on Feb. 24 in Chicago, they used it.

According to the Chicago Tribune, Mr. Emanuel rode to victory on the coats of black voters four years ago with 58 percent of the votes in the six

wards that are more than 90 percent black. This time, he won 42 to 45 percent of those same wards. African-Americans may determine the victor of the April 7 election.

Another possible Democratic setback is looming as

Julianne Malveaux U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., weighs the possibility of challenging former Secretary of State Hilary Rodham Clinton.

Sen. Warren has been portrayed as a champion of the people, especially where consumer protection and financial matters are concerned. She has raised her voice against financial skullduggery by banking institutions, been a critic of attempts to weaken the Dodd Frank bill, and a defender of consumer rights.

The architect of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), Sen. Warren has been the darling of the left and has enhanced that status with her travel to many progressive gatherings. While she has demurred when asked if she will run for president, her replies, if somewhat definite, also seem coy. Additionally, there have been efforts to draft her into running, with online petitions and other efforts.

While Sen. Warren seems to have little baggage, Ms. Clinton seems less than invincible.

Questions have been raised about the Clinton Foundation and the sources of its money, especially when this money has come from foreign governments that have mixed relationships with the United States.

Other questions have been raised about the high six-figure speeches Ms. Clinton gives and the audiences she gives them to. Certainly, she is entitled to earn what the market will bear, but some say those who foot the bill are the very Wall Street scions that Sen. Warren rails against.

Could Sen. Warren seriously challenge Ms. Clinton? Is there a chance that she could win the Democratic nomination? If she chooses to enter the presidential race in the next several months, she will be entering the race at about the time Barack Obama did eight years ago.

Voters are looking for alternatives and Democrats aren’t providing them. Instead, they are offering a party line that inhibits discussion of issues and hews to the inevitability of party favorites. Mr. Emanuel’s defeat and the Warren challenge to Ms. Clinton suggest that the party line is unsatisfactory.

Julianne Malveaux is a Washington, D.C.-based economist and writer.

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base, say something vile about the president.

One of the most obvious insights that offers is that because racism is impervious to logic, the achievements of individuals and even a large cohort of those the bigots hate doesn’t just expand the space for tolerance in the larger society. It also actually intensifies the fury of those who need to cling to their bigotry. As an old friend once put it: The bigots say they hate you because you’re inferior. But when you prove you’re more than equal, they hate you even more.

That’s why, during the Obama presidency, acting the fool has become the Republican Party’s chief operating principle.

Lee A. Daniels is a longtime journalist based in New York City.

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State legislature bent to Dominion’s pressure According to the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America, Richmond ranks No. 1 among the 100 most challenging places to live with asthma in the United States.

But you’d never know that by the way the Virginia General Assembly deals with legislation sought by Dominion Virginia Power.

While the federal Environmental Protection Agency is working to clean up air and water and address climate change, Dominion is proposing to increase its carbon pollution by 30 percent over the next 15 years. Dominion Virginia Power’s dirtiest electricity plant in the state is just south of Richmond along the James River in Chesterfield County. It belches out mercury, soot and other toxic and harmful pollutants in prodigious amounts.

But that old coal plant just got harder to retire with the legislature’s passage of SB1349 and the likelihood that Gov. Terry McAuliffe will sign this bill into law.

Adding insult to injury, SB1349 is as bad for our wallets as it is for our lungs.

Under the guise of a five year “rate freeze,” the General Assembly, at Dominion’s insistence, has exempted the state’s largest electric utility from the scrutiny of the State Corporation Commission, which up until this bill passed, had the power to refund overcharges to Dominion customers.

That power has now been suspended for the next five years. Although Dominion promised a 5 percent rate cut to customers with the passage of this bill, Dominion is actually still able to seek rate increases throughout the five-year term of the so called “rate freeze,” During that period, the SCC will not be able to reduce our bills.

In justifying this, Dominion blamed the EPA, arguing that the Clean Power Plan, a new rule to reduce the carbon pollution that fueling climate change will increase customers’ bills.

The truth is that in Virginia our electricity bills actually

Report shows solutions to end child poverty It is a national moral disgrace that there are 14.7 million poor children, including 6.5 million extremely poor children, in the United States of America — one of the world’s richest nations.

It also is unnecessary, costly and the greatest threat to our future national, economic and military security.

Ending Child Poverty Now, a new report released by The Children’s Defense Fund, calls for an end to child poverty with a 60 percent reduction immediately. It shows solutions to end child poverty in our nation already exist.

By expanding investments in existing policies and programs that work, we can shrink overall child poverty 60 percent, reduce poverty among African-American children by 72 percent and improve economic circumstances for 97 percent of poor children at a cost of $77.2 billion a year.

These policies could be pursued immediately, improving the lives and futures of millions of children and eventually saving taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars annually.

You may see the report at www.childrensdefense.org/ library/PovertyReport/EndingChildPovertyNow.html.

Child poverty is too expensive to continue. Each year, lost productivity and extra health and crime costs for adults who grew up poor add up to $500 billion.

A nation that does not stand for its children does not stand for anything.

Children only have one childhood. We don’t have a moment or a child to waste.

could go down with the implementation of the EPA’s Clean Power Plan through investments in energy efficiency.

Dominion is so far behind in energy efficiency that our electric bills are higher than what folks pay in most states. Residents in 43 states, on average,

pay less on their electric bills ity rates of our state’s largest than we do, according to 2012 monopoly, then “who would data from the U.S. Energy In- be regulating who?”

Unfortunately, that was not formation Administration.

135974_0 Attorney General Mark Her- enough to prevent the General ring’s office opposed SB1349, Assembly from going along arguing that if the General with Dominion.

Why would legislation like Assembly prohibited the SCC from reviewing the electric- SB1349 pass the General As-

sembly? The answer is simple, although disturbing. Dominion is the biggest political contributor to Republicans and Democrats in our General Assembly.

The good news is that even though SB1349 passed, the legislation has awakened the

public to Dominion Virginia Power’s shenanigans. Next year, we’ll be ready.

GLEN BESA Richmond The writer is director of the Virginia Chapter of the Sierra Club.

HE WAS TOLD

HE HAD NO CHANCE. WE TOLD HIM TO ENJOY HIS NEW MITRAL VALVE. Everywhere he turned, Raleigh Hendrick heard the same thing: Nothing more could be done for his heart condition.

But then he came to the VCU Pauley Heart Center. Our doctors suggested he undergo a rare procedure known as a transcatheter mitral valve replacement – believed to be the first of its kind in Virginia. The operation was a success. And now that Raleigh’s healthy again, does he plan on slowing down at all? Not a chance.

Marian Wright Edelman Washington The writer is president of the Children’s Defense Fund.

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Livingstone College’s men’s basketball team and other supporters celebrate after the Blue Bears outran Winston-Salem State University’s Rams in a 106-91 barn burner in last Saturday’s CIAA title game at Time Warner Cable Arena in Charlotte, N.C.

Livingstone wins CIAA men’s championship

For decades, Livingstone College’s Blue Bears were little more than commoners in CIAA basketball.

Today, they’re kings.

In fact, the Blue Bears now have a second crown to wear atop their first one.

The jump shooters from Salisbury, N.C., are back-to-back tournament champs after blitzing Winston-Salem State University 106-91 in last Saturday’s CIAA title game at Charlotte’s Time Warner Cable Arena.

“It’s a great day for Livingstone basketball,” Coach James Stinson told the media afterward.

“I feel this experience will help our players become great young men.”

Ty Newman, a 6-foot-4 junior transfer student from the University of MarylandEastern Shore, netted 13 points in the final game and was named the CIAA Tournament Most Valuable Player.

Fellow transfer students to Livingstone Eric Mayo (from Winston-Salem State University) and Eric Dubose (from Saint Paul’s College) made the CIAA All-Tournament team. Transfers Daryl Traynham (from Morgan State University) had 23 points coming off the bench and 6-foot9 Hakeem Jackson (from Iona College) had 10 points and seven rebounds.

Livingstone, the CIAA’s smallest school with

1,200 students, has flipped the script, transforming the team to winners.

From the inception of the CIAA Tournament in 1946 until 2011, the Blue Bears never had advanced to the final.

Furthermore, the only occasion on which they reached the semifinals was in 1998. Many years, the team didn’t even qualify for the tournament when it was an eight-school affair.

Now they have consecutive titles and a thirdstraight NCAA bid. Much credit goes to Coach Stinson, who arrived from tiny, 120-student Barber-Scotia College.

During Coach Stinson’s last two years at the HBCU in Concord, N.C., Barber-Scotia was 52-20 and made the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics’ Elite 8 twice.

Kerplunk: Virginia State University’s lopsided quarterfinal loss to Fayetteville State University on Feb. 26 should be filed under the “hard to believe” department.

Who could have dreamed the final score would be Broncos 93, VSU 72?

By contrast, on Jan. 3 VSU rolled over Fayetteville State 75-61.

Now get this: For the season, VSU held foes to the CIAA-best 38 percent shooting. In Charlotte, Fayetteville State shot 64 percent (3352) for the game, including 69 percent (20-29)

during the first half.

The Broncos were 82 percent (9-11) from behind the 3-point arc during the first half — an unimaginable 27 points off 11 tries.

It was a glum finish to an overall solid season for second-year Coach Lonnie Blow, whose team finished 18-8 and as the No. 2 seed in the Northern Division.

Now a rebuilding task begins.

The Trojans lose All-CIAA players Lamar Kearse and Tyrece Little, along with center Alphonso Leary, ball-handler Xavier Parham and reserve player Larry Savage.

Long ride back: It takes the Virginia Union University bus about five hours to roll from Richmond to Charlotte.

It must feel at least twice that long coming back.

The Panthers’ play-in loss to Shaw University 77-70 on Feb. 24 marked the sixth year in a row VUU has failed to win a game in the Queen City.

First-year Coach Tony Sheals now must replace standout guards Avery Jirmnson and D’Andre Bullard.

VUU finished 9-18 in a season in which it lost 11 straight games from Nov. 30 to Jan. 21. A missing Panther in Charlotte was Robert Valentine, a standout freshman from Armstrong

NSU has hometown advantage If any team seems capable of derailing the rumbling freight train that is North Carolina Central University, it might be Norfolk State University.

At least the NSU Spartans will have the hometown advantage March 9 through 14 for the MEAC Tournament at the Norfolk Scope.

NSU (18-11, 11-3 starting the week) has confidence from holding juggernaut NCCU to a nervous 60-56 on Jan. 17 at NSU’s Echols Hall.

The Eagles from Durham, N.C., started this week 21-6 overall and 13-0 in MEAC. During the last three seasons, North Carolina Central is a commanding 43-2 against its league foes.

NCCU has dominated MEAC under Coach LeVelle Moton, a former star player at Central from 1992 to 1996. Coach Moton is clearly the hottest commodity among HBCU coaches.

The Eagles’ Rating Percentage Index starting the week was a solid 112 out of 350. NSU is next at 164. Most MEAC schools have RPIs in the high 200s and 300s.

Based on RPIs, the MEAC will receive just one NCAA bid, the automatic berth going to Coach Moton the tournament champion.

Start spreading the news: NSU won the MEAC Tournament and stunned the University of Missouri in the NCAAs three years ago. This year’s formula is much the same as in 2012 — a heavy mix of New York City talent.

Leading scorer Jeff Short, from the Bronx by way of Fordham University, averages 19.3 points.

Assists leader (4.3 points per game average) Jemel Fuentes hails from Brooklyn.

D’Shon Taylor (13.0 points average) came from Garden City Junior College in New Jersey and Malik Thomas (9.6 points per game average) calls Harlem home.

Former NSU Coach Anthony Evans, who now is at Florida International University, started the Big Apple pipeline and current Coach Robert Jones has continued pumpCoach Jones ing it.

Traveling man: Some may question the school loyalty of NCCU’s Nimrod Hilliard IV. No one is questioning his talent, however.

Averaging 11 points and MEAC best 6.1 assists, Hilliard is playing for a fourth school in four years.

Lack of playing time hasn’t been an issue. He has been a starting guard at all four institutions.

A former Mr. Basketball in the state of Wisconsin, Hilliard began college at the University of South Dakota. After his freshman season, he transferred to Jacksonville, Fla., Junior College.

From Florida, he transferred to Lamar University in Texas. He

BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT SCHEDULE Norfolk Scope

Monday, March 9 Women’s opening round: 11 a.m., 1:30 and 4 p.m.

Men’s opening round: 6:30 and 9 p.m.

Tuesday, March 10 Women’s opening round: Noon and 2:30 p.m.

Men’s opening round: 6 and 8 p.m.

Wednesday, March 11 Women’s quarterfinals: Noon and 2:30 p.m.

Men’s quarterfinals: 6 and 8 p.m.

Thursday, March 12 Women’s quarterfinals: Noon and 2:30 p.m.

Men’s quarterfinals: 6 and 8 p.m.

Friday, March 13 Women’s semifinals: Noon and 2:30 p.m.

Men’s semifinals: 6 and 8 p.m.

Saturday, March 14 Men’s championship, 1 p.m., ESPN2 Women’s championship, TBD, ESPNU, tape delayed

left Lamar after one season to play for NCCU. Hilliard’s all-around play has helped salve the losses of last year’s senior stars MEAC Player of the Year Jeremy Ingram and MEAC assists leader Emanuel Chapman.

Hilliard was able to transfer from one Division I university to another without sitting out due to the fact that Lamar University is on NCAA probation.

At Lamar, Hilliard was coached by Pat Knight, son of legendary Indiana University Coach Bobby Knight.

He’s back! MEAC top scorer (20 starting the week) was Delaware State University guard Amere May. You might recall May last year earning All-CIAA honors at Saint Augustine’s University, where he averaged 19.3 points.

The Michigan native played the 2012 and 2013 seasons at Delaware State before one season in the CIAA. Empty seats: Attendance has become a concern in the HBCU conference.

Despite its success, NCCU averaged just 2,053 fans at McDougald-McLendon Gymnasium, home of Eagles basketball.

Bethune-Cookman, Coppin State and South Carolina State universities each averaged less than 1,000 fans per game.

Hampton University won the attendance battle (4,093 average), followed by Maryland-Eastern Shore (2,397), NSU (2,177), North Carolina A&T University (1,982) and Savannah State University (1,741).

High School.

Valentine was benched at the “coach’s discretion,” according to VUU sports publicist Jim Junot.

Stability hasn’t been a recent strength for VUU, either in player personnel or coaching.

VUU played this season with just two holdovers from last season.

Coach Sheals is the Panthers’ third coach since 2008. By comparison, from 1951 to 2008, there were just three coaches — Tom Harris, Robert Moore and Dave Robbins.

Family tradition: While it was a frustrating year for VUU, it has been a banner season for the son of a former Panther.

A.J. English III, son of ex-VUU great A.J. English Jr., is averaging 20 points for the 24-6 Iona College Gaels. The 6-foot-4 junior is a strong Metro Atlantic Player of the Year candidate.

The elder English was the Division II Player of the Year for VUU in 1990 when he led the NCAA in scoring.

Next: The Atlantic Region NCAA pairings will be announced March 8. A likely destination for a CIAA team, or possibly teams, will be at the Atlantic Region’s top-ranked West Liberty University in West Virginia. There’s a chance Bowie State University could earn an at-large invitation.

VCU Rams on the road at Davidson

Not so long ago, Virginia Commonwealth University basketball was sailing along smoothly. Now the Rams have hit choppy waters.

Agonizing, back-to-back losses at the University of Richmond (67-63 in double overtime) and at home against the University of Dayton (59-55) have knocked the Rams out of the national poll and the Atlantic 10 Conference lead.

VCU enters its Thursday, March 5, date at Davidson College in a must-win situation regarding the league’s regular season title and with a first-round A-10 Conference tournament bye in question. Only the top four institutions receive byes into the tournament quarterfinals.

VCU started the week 21-8 overall and 11-5 in the A-10.

Dayton, Davidson and the University of Rhode Island have four losses.

The University of Richmond and the University of Massachusetts have six losses, but UR holds the tie-breaker over VCU. The Rams’ losses to UR and Dayton boiled down to the final possession. Each time, Rams’ senior star Treveon Graham was called on for the make-it-or-break-it shot.

Graham’s 2-pointer to tie during a second overtime against UR was partially blocked. His 3-pointer to win against Dayton rimmed out, and Mo Alie-Cox’s hurried follow-up misfired.

Graham had 12 points, on 4-for-14 shooting. Alie-Cox had 12 points and 10 rebounds.

Statistics from the Dayton game revealed VCU’s signature “Havoc” pressure defense had lost its teeth — at least temporarily. The Rams scored just three points off turnovers and had no points on fast breaks against Dayton.

Missing the last two games was 6-foot-9 freshman Michael Gilmore, who went home to Jacksonville, Fla., for the funeral of his father, Earl Gilmore, 65. Earl Gilmore is the brother of NBA great Artis Gilmore.

Saturday will be Senior Day at the Siegel Center with Graham, back-up post player Jarred Guest and injured guard Briante Weber taking their final home bows. Weber underwent knee surgery last week and will not return to play.

During the threesome’s four years, VCU has gone 10333 overall, 50-16 in conference play and qualified for three NCAA playoffs.

Despite recent frustrations, the Rams seem a lock for another NCAA bid. VCU’s Ratings Percentage Index (RPI) was 19th in the nation starting the week, with a No. 7- ranked strength of schedule.

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Spotlight on founder of nonprofit that helps ill afford medications Dr. Dana A. Kuhn understands the terrible toll expensive chronic illnesses can take on families and their loved ones.

“While providing counseling for families, I observed their emotional, psychological and financial struggles,” the Midlothian resident says. “One family I counseled was forced to live off of one income because one parent had to become their child’s primary caretaker.

“They had to sell their home and eventually divorced so their child, whose condition continued to worsen, could qualify for health care under Medicaid. Not only did they lose their child, they were financially ruined. No family should experience that.”

That’s the reason the licensed clinical psychologist says he founded Patient Services Inc. in 1989.

“I realized that if families could afford their health insurance premiums and copayments, then more than likely they would stay financially stable. A financial safety net was needed.”

Dr. Kuhn says his Brandermill-based nonprofit of 60 employees works with physicians, clinics, patient advocacy organizations and patient assistance programs to identify populations that are struggling to afford health insurance premiums and copayments.

His organization helps patients and their families “navigate through the challenges of living with these chronic illnesses,” Dr. Kuhn states.

“Our data show that patients only need PSI’s help from one to two years to remain financially stable and not be plummeted into financial devastation.”

He says there is a higher demand for PSI’s services since the Affordable Care Act was implemented in January 2014.

“Even with a policy available and with a subsidy, the costs are still unaffordable for the populations we help with expensive chronic conditions,” he states. “In Virginia, during the open enrollment period from October through the end of February, we’re getting around 200 patients to ask us to help them to afford these premiums.

“The average annual income of the patients coming to us for help with these plans is approximately $39,000, the average age is 40, the average annual premiums are $5,000 and the average coinsurance is $6,000,” Dr. Kuhn adds.

“How can a person afford 28 percent of their income on the marketplace plans? The ACA creates access to health policies and creates a need for PSI to help subsidize the cost.”

Dr. Kuhn says PSI funds its life-saving efforts through private donations and some public funding. The organization’s latest filings with the IRS show that it spent $60.9 million in 2013 providing assistance to 18,452 people across the country and referral and education services to 3,360 others.

Patients with chronic diseases such as heart disease, stroke, cancer, diabetes, obesity, and arthritis may be eligible if they do not qualify for Medicaid and meet insurance and financial criteria, he says.

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Personality, Dana A. Kuhn: High out-of-pocket costs not only have harmful financial Year and place of birth: March consequences for patients, they 1953 in Mineola, N.Y. also damage patient health and Current residence: Woodlake drive up overall costs to our health care system, increasing in Midlothian. costs by $100 billion each year.

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Upcoming Free Health Seminars VCU Medical Center will be offering the following free seminars about heart health at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden’s Education and Library Complex, located at 1800 Lakeside Avenue.

Registration is recommended. Free parking available.

Register online at vcuhealth.org/seminars or call (804) 828-0123 for more information.

Thursday, March 5, 2015 | 5:30 p.m.

Weight Loss Surgery: Not Just for Obesity Anymore Join Dr. James Bittner IV who will discuss the cutting-edge technologies and research that are transforming weight loss surgery, curing metabolic diseases and improving one’s overall health.

Thursday, March 12, 2015 | 5:30 p.m.

Cosmetic Surgery: The Art and the Science Join Dr. Daniel Luppens who will discuss the latest cosmetic and aesthetic options available for the face, breast and body.

Wednesday, March 25, 2015 | 5:30 p.m.

Tailoring Cancer Treatments to You Personalized medicine is a rapidly growing field of health care that is about making the treatment individualized to your own disease. Join Andrea Ferreira-Gonzalez, Ph.D., who will talk about how personalized medicine is revolutionizing cancer care and producing remarkable results for therapy treatments.

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It’s a basketball tournament. It’s a big party. It’s the CIAA annual basketball extravaganza. Charlotte, N.C., once again hosted the big event. Some scenes from the Time Warner Cable Arena: Top left, Virginia State University’s interim President Pamela V. Hammond and her husband, Gary John Hammond, celebrate VSU’s win over Lincoln University for the women’s title; below, R&B singer Tank sports a VSU T-shirt. Center top, Virginia

Royal fashion show at VSU

Union University’s Rah Rahs put on a show; below, national radio host Tom Joyner takes in a game with CIAA Commissioner Jacquie McWilliams and her daughter, Semone Carpenter, after broadcasting his “Tom Joyner Morning Show” from the CIAA Fan Fest at the nearby Charlotte Convention Center; right, Abraham “Mr. CIAA” Mitchell struts in one of his signature outfits.

Golden coronation Virginia Commonwealth University students Frankie James and Victoria Edwards ebulliently accept crowns during their coronation as 2015 VCU Homecoming King and Queen at the Siegel Center. The Grande Coronation, as it was called, took place last Saturday as Rams spirit spread throughout the campus. Events included a homecoming parade down Broad Street and a tailgate at the University Student Commons featuring food trucks and inflatables. The crowning took place during VCU’s homecoming basketball game against the University of Dayton.

The Dayton Flyers edged out the VCU Rams 59-55.

Virginia State University will host a Spring Fling “Royals” Fashion Show, a royalty-themed event, from 6 to 9 p.m. March 15 at Daniel Gymnasium on campus.

Six local designers and 33 student models will show off clothing inspired by the prestige and glamour of kings and queens, said program coordinator Jairamie King. Trendy styles, ranging from graphic T-shirts and hoodies to floorlength gowns, will be showcased.

The show’s focus on urban apparel and couture reflect the style diversity in the fashion industry, Mr. King said.

“Between urban and couture, we all feel like kings and queens in the apparel we decide to wear,” he said.

The free event is open to the public. It also kicks off VSU’s 2015 Spring Fling Week, which runs until March 21 and will include a pageant, card tournament, pool party and LGBT ball among other events.

Information: Mr. King at (804) 524-5522.

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Welcome, Chief Durham Richmond’s new Police Chief Alfred Durham proudly stands with his family following his formal public swearing-in Feb. 27 at Coburn Hall on the campus of Virginia Union University. From left, they are his grandson, Aidan, 6; daughter, Alexis; and son, Alfred Jr.

Postage stamp to honor poet Maya Angelou The U.S. Postal Service will honor Maya Angelou, the beloved late poet, author, educator and champion of equality, with a Forever Stamp.

“Maya Angelou inspired our nation through a life of advocacy and through her many contributions to the written and spoken word,” said Postmaster General Megan J. Brennan. “Her wide-ranging achievements as a playwright, poet, memoirist, educator and advocate for justice and equality enhanced our culture.”

The Postal Service will preview the stamp and later provide details on the date and location of the first-day-of-issuance ceremony, Ms.

Brennan stated.

Dr. Angelou, who died in May 2014, wrote more than 30 books of fiction, poetry and memoir during her prodigious career. She also was a Tony-nominated stage actress, a Grammy Award winner, civil rights activist, streetcar conductor, singer, dancer, movie actor, director and playwright.

In 2011, President Obama bestowed on her the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the country’s highest civilian honor.

Dr. Angelou was the Reynolds Professor of American Studies at Wake Forest University for more than three decades.

Photos by Sandra Sellars/ Richmond Free Press

Liftoff!

Cheerleaders from Richmond’s John B. Cary Elementary School leap in mid-cheer during a routine performed Feb. 28 at Generation Dream 2015. Monty Jones also shows off his skills dancing to the rhythms of Drums No Guns.

The music, spoken word, dance and arts event was hosted by the Richmond Peace Education Center to promote the ideals of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Location: Henrico Theater in Highland Springs.

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Federal appeals court upholds ban on prison ‘religion’

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

Freedom of religion goes only so far in prison — particularly when safety and security are involved.

That’s why a Virginia prison inmate has lost a federal court battle to force prison officials to recognize Nation of Gods and Earths as a religion rather than as a gang.

In a decision released Feb. 27, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond rejected Infinite Allah’s suit to overturn prison barriers to NGE as a violation of the federal religious freedom law covering prisoners.

Instead, the appeals court upheld a lower court decision that the Virginia prison ban on NGE represents the “least restrictive means of furthering” the compelling government interest in preventing the prison disruption that NGE could cause.

The ban on NGE has been in place for at least 18 years, according to the state. The ban was imposed in 1997 as members began cropping up in larger numbers in various Virginia prisons.

Infinite Allah, who according to Virginia Department of Corrections records is serving a life sentence at Augusta Correctional Center in Augusta County, is the latest inmate to go to court to try to overturn the ban.

The case challenged the refusal of state prison officials to show NGE the same respect

NGE that black people are alphabet, which are considered by NGE to be as other faiths. Instead, the the original people on Earth the keys to understanding. prison system forbids NGE and are the mothers and While Infinite Allah stated in his suit that members to meet commufathers of civilization. he and other NGE members he knew had never nally, wear special clothing, The court documents been involved in gang activity in prison, the hats or NGE medallions or describe NGE members as appeals panel accepted Judge Jones’ finding possess the faith’s materials believing there are three that the group could present a danger based and publications. types of people — the 10 on the Virginia Department of Corrections’ Infinite Allah, whose percent of elites and their evidence of incidents involving other NGE given name is David Mitchagents who keep 85 percent members. ell Turner, also alleged that of the world in ignorance and The panel also accepted Judge Jones’ prison officials did not allow the separatist 5 percent in the findings that NGE hats and medallions could him to fast or follow the NGE who are enlightened serve as “gang identifiers and aid in gang pork- and tuna-free meals and are determined to help recruitment” and that “the frequency with prescribed by the faith, acothers become independent which typed and handwritten NGE matericording to the decision. of the current rulers. als contain codes, racist sentiments and/or The three-judge appelAdherents of NGE are violent sentiments” justified the ban on such late panel, like the lower court, did not inquire as to Clarence Edward Smith, founder required to learn the supreme materials as well as on NGE’s newspaper, of Nation of Gods and Earths mathematics and supreme “The Five Percenter.” whether NGE was a genuine religion. Instead, the panel found no error in Judge James P. Jones’ finding that NGE “has acted as a prison gang that would pose a threat to the safety and security of Virginia prison facilities if treated as other 2604 Idlewood Avenue religious groups. Inmates affiliated with NGE Richmond, Va. 23220 have a demonstrated history of violence and (804) 353-6135 www.riverviewbaptistch.org racism.”

Pastor March 13, 2015 at 7:30 p.m.

Rev. Dr. Stephen L. Hewlett, Shirley W. According to related opinions, NGE, or Pastor Agape Deliverance COGIC Rouse the Five-Percent Nation, is the creation of a Rev. Dr. Ralph Reavis, Sr. 1800 E. Belt Boulevard Pastor Emeritus disaffected member of the Nation of Islam, Richmond, VA 23224 SUNDAY SCHOOL - 9:45 A.M. Clarence Edward Smith, or Clarence 13X. • • The Vision lives on! • • SUNDAY WORSHIP SERVICE In 1964, he began teaching in his launch of 11:00 A.M.

Baptist Church

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

Single Mothers’ Dinner

Sunday Morning Worship 11:00 a.m.

Come Join Us!

Meet and greet the congregation of Rising Liberty Church Be pampered and served Pray together and share a meal Spend time with other single mothers Hear from Rev. Dr. Horace H. Wade - Pastor

Reverend Dr. Lester D. Frye Pastor and Founder

Friday, March 20,2015

For registration and information, call (804)-307-5721 or email: risinglibertychurch@yahoo.com RSVP by March 7th. Childcare will be provided.

Rising Liberty Church

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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

Years of Music Ministry

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

Also Featuring

31st Street Baptist Church Male Chorus Richmond, VA

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

Arlington, VA

All are Invited! Free Admission

Garland Avenue Baptist Church celebrates

Theme for 2015: Becoming a Five-Star Church of Excellence I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. Phil. 4:13

Youth Day

Sunday, March 8, 2015 Church School: (New Time) 9:00 a.m.

Worship Preparation: 10:30 a.m.

Worship: 11 a.m.

3RD SUNDAY OF LENT Message by Pastor “The Flea” Luke 19:1-10 SAVE THE DATE Anniversary of the renowned senior choir Sunday, March 15, 2015 11:00 a.m.

Join The Family Sixth Baptist Church: A Church for the Entire Family Facebook sixthbaptistrva

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

Baptist Ministers ConferenCe of riChMond & ViCinity presents

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Cedar Street Baptist Church of God 2301 CEDAR STREET | RICHMOND, VA 23223

Celestrial Echoes Lomax A.M.E. Zion Church

16 W. Clay St., Richmond, VA 23220 For more info call 804.644.7586

Rev. Tony D. Henderson, Pastor

Sis. Valencia Rouse Needly and Bro. Tremaine Needly

Sixth Baptist Church

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Hood Temple Male Chorus

Hood Temple A.M.E.Z. Church

Superintendent Melvin L. Rouse, Sr.

Elder Chris Rouse Sr., and Lady Brittany Rouse

It’s A Family Affair

1000 Westover Hills Blvd., Richmond, VA 23225 (804)-387-9868 • www.risinglibertychurch.com

Mistress of Ceremony Ms. Clovia Lawrence of Radio One

Celebration

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

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

6-8:30PM (doors open at 5:30PM) Prayer, dinner, conversation and fun at NO COST

Celebrates

FIRST Agape’ sFAMILY

Riverview

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”

CONFERENCE DETAILS:

Nightly prayer and praise with special prayer with Deacon and Deaconess conference 6:00 p.m to 6:30 p.m. in Sanctuary and special room. Praise Teams and Praise Leaders from 6:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.

Mass choirs from different parts of the city and surrounding counties each night.

GUEST SPEAKER: MAR 9-10 MONDAY & TUESDAY

Rev. Dr. Kerwin Lee Dr. Kerwin B. Lee is the Senior Pastor and Founder of the Berean Christian Church in Stone Mountain, Georgia, a ministry that began in 1996 and has grown from 200 individuals to more than 7000 active members.

GUEST SPEAKER: MAR 11-12 WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY

Rev. Dr. Cynthia Hale Rev. Dr. Cynthia L. Hale is the founding and Senior Pastor of the Ray of Hope Christian Church in Decatur, Georgia. Dr. Hale is a native of Roanoke, Virginia. Dr. Hale is the Secretary for the Hampton University Ministers’ Conference.

“You do not want to miss these great speakers and worship experience.” reV. dr. Marlon haskell, BMCrV president Chicago Avenue Baptist Church • Richmond, Virginia

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Richmond Free Press

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Obituary/Faith News/Directory

Virginia native Earl Lloyd integrated the NBA Free Press staff, wire reports

Earl Lloyd, a Virginia native who was among the early stars of the annual CIAA tournament and the first African-American to play in the NBA, has died.

Mr. Lloyd, 86, was living in Crossville, Tenn., with his wife, Charlita, at the time of his death Thursday, Feb. 26, 2015.

Mr. Lloyd became the first African-American to play in an NBA game on Oct. 31, 1950, when he took the floor for the Washington Capitols.

Soon to follow that same year were Chuck Cooper with the Boston Celtics, Sweetwater Clifton with the New York Knicks and Hank DeZonie with the Tri-Cities Blackhawks, now the Atlanta Hawks.

Mr. Lloyd, a springy 6-foot-6 forward, played nine seasons in the NBA with Washington, Syracuse and Detroit, averaging 8.4 points and 6.4 rebounds for his career.

In 1955, Mr. Lloyd and Jim Tucker were the first African-Americans to play on a NBA championship team as members of the

Syracuse Nationals. memoir written with Sean Mr. Lloyd later became Kirst. He starred at segthe first black assistant regated Parker-Gray High coach with the Detroit School in Alexandria that Pistons in 1968, and served lacked a gymnasium so to as the Pistons’ head coach the team played basketball in 1971-72 and the first in the school auditorium. nine games of the 1972-73 In high school, Mr. Lloyd season. played against Maggie L. In 2003, Mr. Lloyd was Walker and Armstrong high inducted into the Naismith schools of Richmond.

Basketball Hall of Fame, He headed to college on an where he was introduced athletic scholarship, starring at the induction by Hall of on the team at the historically Famer Dave Bing, one of the black West Virginia State players he coached.

College. In his first season, He also is a member of the team went 30-0. the CIAA and West Virginia His collegiate opponents State Halls of Fame. included Virginia Union The youngest of three and Virginia State univerMr. Lloyd sons born to Theodore and sities.

Daisy Lloyd, a coal yard laborer and an ocMr. Lloyd helped West Virginia State Unicasional housekeeper in Alexandria, Va., Mr. versity win CIAA tournaments in 1948 and Lloyd grew up in a home that had no electric- 1949, and finish second behind North Carolina ity or indoor plumbing, according to his 2010 Central University in 1950.

Baptist Ministers’ Conference to host 4-day citywide revival The Baptist Ministers’ Conference of Richmond and Vicinity is hosting its annual citywide revival.

The Metro Revival will be Monday, March 9, through Thursday, March 12, at Cedar Street Baptist Church of God, 2301 Cedar St. in Church Hill.

Services will be 7 p.m. each night.

The Rev. Kerwin Lee of Berean Christian Church in Stone Mountain, Ga., is scheduled to speak at the March 9 and 10 services.

St. Peter Baptist Church

Dr. Kirkland R. Walton, Pastor

Worship Opportunities Sundays: Morning Worship Church School Morning Worship

The Rev. Cynthia Hale of the Ray of Hope Christian Church in Decatur, Ga., is the scheduled speaker for the March 11 and 12 services.

Mass choirs from Richmond area churches are to perform as well, according to organizers.

“You do not want to miss these great speakers and this worship experience,” said the Rev. Marlon Haskell, president of the 200-member ministers’ conference and pastor of Chicago Avenue Baptist Church in South Richmond.

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

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

6:30 PM Prayer Meeting

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

FirstM iBaptist Church dlothian

Mount Olive Baptist Church

Sundays

8:00 a.m.

Early Morning Worship 9:30 a.m.

Sunday School 11:00 a.m.

Morning Worship

Rev. Darryl G. Thompson, Pastor

2015 Theme: The Year of Moving Forward

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Tuesdays

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

Noon Day Bible Study

Wednesdays

6:30 p.m.

Prayer and Praise 7:00 p.m.

Bible Study

Ebenezer Baptist Church 1858

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)

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

The CIAA tournament began in 1946.

After his NBA career, Mr. Lloyd worked as an executive at Chrysler Corp.’s Dodge Division in Detroit, and later for the city’s board of education, according to the university.

“He was known as a modest gentleman who played the game with skill, class and pride,” said NBA Commissioner Adam Silver. “His legacy survives in the league he helped integrate, and the entire NBA family will strive to always honor his memory.”

At West Virginia State, located near Charleston, the gymnasium is named in Mr. Lloyd’s honor. An impressive statue with his likeness greets visitors to the gym.

“The State family mourns the loss of a fellow Yellow Jacket and trailblazer who was a true champion both on and off the basketball court,” West Virginia State President Brian Hemphill said in a statement. “When Earl stepped out on the court on that fateful date in 1950, this remarkable man rightfully earned his place in the historic Civil Rights Movement and, more important, he opened the door to equality in America.”

11:00 AM Mid-day Meditation

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

Service Times Sunday

Church School 9:45AM Worship 11:00AM

Tuesday

Bible Study 12 Noon

“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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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.

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

Wednesday Youth & Adult Bible Study 7:00PM Prayer & Praise 8:15PM

Van Transportation Available, Call 804-794-5583

Rev. Pernell J. Johnson, 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.

“The Church With A Welcome”

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

SUNDAYS WEDNESDAYS THURSDAYS 8:00 a.m. .... Morning Worship 12:00 p.m. .... Noon Day Service 1:30 p.m.

9:30 a.m. .... Church School 6:00 p.m. ..... Prayer Service Bible Study 11:15 a.m. ...Morning Worship 6:30 p.m. ..... Bible Study

Life in the Zion Baptist Church 2006 Decatur Street Richmond, VA 23224

Union

Baptist Church 1813 Everett Street Richmond, Virginia 23224 804-231-5884

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Rev. Robert C. Davis, Pastor

Sunday Service 10 a.m.

93rd Church Anniversary

Dr. Robert L. Pettis, Sr., Pastor Church School 8:45 a.m.

Wednesday Bible Study 7p.m.

Transportation Services 232-2867 “Reclaiming the Lost by Proclaiming the Gospel”

Moore Street Missionary

Baptist Church

1408 W. Leigh Street • 358-6403

Dr. Alonza Lawrence Pastor

Sundays

Early Morning Worship 8:30 A.M. Church School 9:30 A.M. Morning Worship 10:00 A.M.

Tuesdays

Bible Study 12 noon

Wednesdays

New Mercies Ministry 6:00 A.M. Youth Bible Study 6:00 P.M. Adult Bible Study 6:30 P.M.

Sunday Service 11AM Wednesday Prayer/Bible Study 7PM

ine Fellowship

(Married 48 years!)

Come Hear the Wisdom of God on Relationships if you are: Married, Divorced, Separated or Single

New Deliverance Evangelistic Church

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

WMission Purpose

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Herbert Pollard, Sr., Pastor & Gainell Pollard, Co-Pastor Manchester Middle School (Auditorium) 7401 Hull St., Richmond, VA 23235 •804-780-7862

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17TH

Sunday, March 9, 2015 11:00 a.m.

ANNUAL CONFERENCE

Theme: “In His Presence”

Purpose:

To Thank and Praise God for 93 Years as Union Baptist Church Theme: Celebrating 93 years, Inspired by God’s steadfast Love and Faithfulness Colors: Shades of Green Green denotes thoughtfulness, freshness, steadiness, spring, peace, visibility, growth and the divine.

Speaker: Rev. Herman L. West III

Associate Minister, Sixth Baptist Church Music: UBC Mass Choir “Dedication of Sound System” Reception immediately following.

“I will sing of your steadfast love, O Lord, forever with my mouth I will proclaim your faithfulness to all generations”.

Psalm 89:1

Bishop G. O. Glenn D. Min., Founder Mother Marcietia S. Glenn First Lady

Sunday 8 a.m. Sunday School 9:30 a.m. Worship Service

Wednesday Services Senior Citizens Noonday Bible Study Every Wed. 12noon-1pm

April 17-18, 2015 For more information visit Register Now @ www.ndec.net Tune in on Sunday Morning to WTVR - Channel 6 - 8:30 a.m.

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

Bible Study Count: noonday Wednesday night 7 p.m. Prayer Sanctuary - All Are Welcome!

THE NEW DELIVERANCE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY (NDCA)

Saturday

Our NDCA curriculum also consists of a Before and After program.

8:30 a.m. Intercessory Prayer You can now view Sunday Morning Service “AS IT HAPPENS” online!

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

Visit www.ndec.net.

ENROLL NOW!!!

Accepting applications for children 2 yrs. old to 3rd Grade

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

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

Richmond Free Press

March 5-7, 2015

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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 Friday, March 6, 2015 at 2:00 p.m. in the Council Chamber on the Second Floor of City Hall, located at 900 East Broad Street, Richmond, Virginia, to consider the following ordinance: Ordinance No. 2015-47 To fix the day on which the Mayor shall submit the budgets to be submitted in 2015 to the City Council pursuant to City Charter § 6.02 on March 13, 2015, at 3:00 p.m.

Interested citizens who wish to speak will be given an opportunity to do so. Copies of the full text of all ordinances are available by visiting the City Clerk’s page on the City’s Website at www.Richmondgov.com; the Main City Library located at 101 East Franklin Street; and in the Office of the City Clerk, City Hall, 900 East Broad Street, Suite 200, Richmond, VA 23219, from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday.

Jean V. Capel City Clerk

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

Case No.: CL15-237-1 THELMA L. CHEATHAM a/k/a THELMA LENORA CHEATHAM, Who May Be Deceased, and THE HEIRS, DEVISEES, ASSIGNEES OR SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST OF THELMA L. CHEATHAM a/k/a THELMA LENORA CHEATHAM, et al., Defendants.

ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as “3214 Barton Avenue”, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map/GPIN# N000-1134/004, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Thelma L. Cheatham.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, THELMA L. CHEATHAM a/k/a THELMA LENORA CHEATHAM, who may be deceased, and the heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest of THELMA L. CHEATHAM a/k/a THELMA LENORA CHEATHAM, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.”

IT IS ORDERED that THELMA L. CHEATHAM a/k/a THELMA LENORA CHEATHAM, who may be deceased, and the heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest of THELMA L. CHEATHAM a/k/a THELMA LENORA CHEATHAM, 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.: CL14-5046-1 THOMAS C. PERKINS, Who May Be Deceased, and THE HEIRS, DEVISEES, ASSIGNEES OR SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST OF THOMAS C. PERKINS, et al., Defendants.

ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as “902 North 25th Street”, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map/GPIN# E0000429/010, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Thomas C. Perkins.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, THOMAS C. PERKINS, who may be deceased, and the heirs, devisees, assignees or Continued on next column

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successors in interest of THOMAS C. PERKINS, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; that ELNORA PERKINS a/k/a ELENORA PERKINS, who may be deceased and the heirs, devisees, assignees or successor/s in interest of ELNORA PERKINS a/k/a ELENORA PERKINS, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; that AUBIN PERKINS a/k/a AUBREY PERKINS a/k/a AUBIN DELANO PERKINS, who may be deceased and the heirs, devisees, assignees or successor/s in interest of AUBIN PERKINS a/k/a AUBREY PERKINS a/k/a AUBIN DELANO PERKINS, THOMAS PERKINS, (son of Thomas and Elenora), who may be deceased and the heirs, devisees, assignees or successor/s in interest of THOMAS PERKINS, (son of Thomas and Elenora), CLEOPATRA PERKINS, who may be deceased and the heirs, devisees, assignees or successor/s in interest of CLEOPATRA PERKINS, FLEETA PERKINS, who may be deceased and the heirs, devisees, assignees or successor/s in interest of FLEETA PERKINS, EVERETT PERKINS, who may be deceased and the heirs, devisees, assignees or successor/s in interest of EVERETT PERKINS, VIRGINIA C. PERKINS a/k/a VIRGINIA CHARITY PERKINS, who may be deceased and the heirs, devisees, assignees or successor/s in interest of VIRGINIA C. PERKINS a/k/a VIRGINIA CHARITY PERKINS, CLYDE L. CHARITY, SR., who may be deceased and the heirs, devisees, assignees or successor/s in interest of CLYDE L. CHARITY, SR., who may have an ownership interest in said property, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; that THOMAS PERKINS (son of Fleeta), CHERYL PERKINS, REGINA PERKINS, REGINA MATTHEWS, ANGELA LEWIS, DARRYL NEVILLE, LARRY CHARITY, who may have an ownership interest in said property, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.”

IT IS ORDERED that THOMAS C. PERKINS, who may be deceased, and the heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest of THOMAS C. PERKINS, ELNORA PERKINS a/k/a ELENORA PERKINS, who may be deceased and the heirs, devisees, assignees or successor/s in interest of ELNORA PERKINS a/k/a ELENORA PERKINS, AUBIN PERKINS a/k/a AUBREY PERKINS a/k/a AUBIN DELANO PERKINS, who may be deceased and the heirs, devisees, assignees or successor/s in interest of AUBIN PERKINS a/k/a AUBREY PERKINS a/k/a AUBIN DELANO PERKINS, THOMAS PERKINS, (son of Thomas and Elenora), who may be deceased and the heirs, devisees, assignees or successor/s in interest of THOMAS PERKINS, (son of Thomas and Elenora), CLEOPATRA PERKINS, who may be deceased and the heirs, devisees, assignees or successor/s in interest of CLEOPATRA PERKINS, FLEETA PERKINS, who may be deceased and the heirs, devisees, assignees or successor/s in interest of FLEETA PERKINS, EVERETT PERKINS, who may be deceased and the heirs, devisees, assignees or successor/s in interest of EVERETT PERKINS, VIRGINIA C. PERKINS a/k/a VIRGINIA CHARITY PERKINS, who may be deceased and the heirs, devisees, assignees or successor/s in interest of VIRGINIA C. PERKINS a/k/a VIRGINIA CHARITY PERKINS, CLYDE L. CHARITY, SR., who may be deceased and the heirs, devisees, assignees or successor/s in interest of CLYDE L. CHARITY, SR., THOMAS PERKINS (son of Fleeta), CHERYL PERKINS, REGINA PERKINS, REGINA MATTHEWS, ANGELA LEWIS, DARRYL NEVILLE, LARRY CHARITY, 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.: CL14-3389-1 MARVO ENTERPRISES, INC., a/k/a MARVO ENTERPRISE, INC., A Terminated Virginia Corporation, et al., Defendants.

ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as “824 North 24th Street”, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map/GPIN# E000Continued on next column

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0378/003, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, MARVO ENTERPRISES, INC., a/k/a MARVO ENTERPRISE, INC., A Terminated Virginia Corporation.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, MARVO ENTERPRISES, INC., a/k/a MARVO ENTERPRISE, INC., A Terminated Virginia Corporation, has not been located and has not filed a response to this action; that MARVIN A. ROBINSON, SR., As Former Director and Trustee in Liquidation, who may have an ownership interest in said property, has not been personally located and has not filed a response to this action; that CHARILTY SCROGGINS MOORE a/k/a CHARITY SCROGGINS MOORE, who may be deceased and the heirs, devisees, assignees or successor/s in interest of CHARILTY SCROGGINS MOORE a/k/a CHARITY SCROBBINS MOORE, ELIZABETH SCROGGINS BROOKS, who may be deceased and the heirs, devisees, assignees or successor/s in interest of ELIZABETH SCROGGINS BROOKS, LUCIEN SCROGGINS, who may be deceased and the heirs, devisees, assignees or successor/s in interest of LUCIEN SCROGGINS, IDA SCROGGINS MASSIE a/k/a IDA S. SCOTT, who may be deceased and the heirs, devisees, assignees or successor/s in interest of IDA SCROGGINS MASSIE a/k/a IDA S. SCOTT, HARRISON SCROGGINS, JR., who may be deceased and the heirs, devisees, assignees or successor/s in interest of HARRISON SCROGGINS, JR., who may have an ownership interest in said property, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; that JEANETTE E. BROOKS a/k/a JEANNETTE E. BROOKS, DOROTHY V. BROOKS, JEROME V. SCROGGINS, who may have an ownership interest in said property, has not been personally located and has not filed a response to this action; that JOSEPH S. MASSIE, who may have an ownership interest in said property, who is not a resident of the Commonwealth of Virginia, has not filed a response to this action; that HOWARD SCOTT, JR., who may have an ownership interest in said property, has not been located and has not filed a response to this action; that Cheryl E. Rose, As Receiver for Mann Bracken, LLP, MANN BRACKEN, LLP, A Delaware General Partnership, Successor by Merger to WOLPOFF & ABRAMSON, LLP, A Dissolved Maryland Entity, Successor in Interest to PLATINUM FINANCIAL SERVICES CORP Assignee of RECOVERY PARTNERS II, L.L.C., Assignee of FIRST NORTH AMERICAN NATIONAL BANK, which maybe a creditor with an interest in said property, who is not a resident of the Commonwealth of Virginia, has not filed a response to this action; and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.”

IT IS ORDERED that MARVO ENTERPRISES, INC., a/k/a MARVO ENTERPRISE, INC., A Terminated Virginia Corporation, MARVIN A. ROBINSON, SR., As Former Director and Trustee in Liquidation, CHARILTY SCROGGINS MOORE a/k/a CHARITY SCROGGINS MOORE, who may be deceased and the heirs, devisees, assignees or successor/s in interest of CHARILTY SCROGGINS MOORE a/k/a CHARITY SCROBBINS MOORE, ELIZABETH SCROGGINS BROOKS, who may be deceased and the heirs, devisees, assignees or successor/s in interest of ELIZABETH SCROGGINS BROOKS, LUCIEN SCROGGINS, who may be deceased and the heirs, devisees, assignees or successor/s in interest of LUCIEN SCROGGINS, IDA SCROGGINS MASSIE a/k/a IDA S. SCOTT, who may be deceased and the heirs, devisees, assignees or successor/s in interest of IDA SCROGGINS MASSIE a/k/a IDA S. SCOTT, HARRISON SCROGGINS, JR., who may be deceased and the heirs, devisees, assignees or successor/s in interest of HARRISON SCROGGINS, JR., JEANETTE E. BROOKS a/k/a JEANNETTE E. BROOKS, DOROTHY V. BROOKS, JEROME V. SCROGGINS, JOSEPH S. MASSIE, HOWARD SCOTT, JR., Cheryl E. Rose, As Receiver for Mann Bracken, LLP, MANN BRACKEN, LLP, A Delaware General Partnership, Successor by Merger to WOLPOFF & ABRAMSON, LLP, A Dissolved Maryland Entity, Successor in Interest to PLATINUM FINANCIAL SERVICES CORP Assignee of RECOVERY PARTNERS II, L.L.C., Assignee of FIRST NORTH AMERICAN NATIONAL BANK, 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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Divorce 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.

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 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.

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VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER CAROLINA AYALA REYES, Plaintiff v.

JESUS FARIAS, Defendant.

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, 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.

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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.

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 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 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)

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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

CUSTODY VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF RICHMOND CITY In the matter of the adoption of child to be known as India Monet Turner Robinson (Child’s Adopted Name)

by Cedric Anton Robinson, and Olivia Turner Robinson (Petitioner’s Name(s)) Respondent’s name: Ronald Anthony Patterson (Natural Parent) Case No. 14-39 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to adopt a minor child.

And, it appearing by affidavit filed according to law that diligence has been used by the plaintiff to determine in what city or county the defendant is located without success, it is therefore ORDERED that the defendant appear on or before the 18th day of March, 2015, before this Court and do what is necessary to protect his interests.

An Extract, Teste: EDWARD F. JEWETT, Clerk

PROPERTY 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

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, Continued on next page

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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, 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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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

KBS is soliciting pricing from subcontractors for the renovation of 77 apartments in the existing apartment building at 1221 E. Brookland Park Blvd in Richmond. SMALL, WOMENOWNED, MINORITY-OWNED AND SECTION III BUSINESSES AND INDIVIDUALS PARTICIPATION: 30% MBE participation is the goal and all MBE and Section 3 certified firms are encouraged to provide pricing. KBS promotes economic opportunity by encouraging participation of these types of businesses through subcontracting, joint ventures, or other contracting methods. Interested parties should follow up by viewing Brookland Park Plaza Apartment project information provided on the KBS Subcontracting Opportunities website at www.kbsgc.com/subcontracting or contacting the KBS main office at (804)262-0100.

Employment Opportunities

Kjellstrom +Lee, as the Construction Manager for this project, is seeking prequalified contractors for the Structured Cabling scope of work. The project is a historic renovation to the original Richmond Hotel, located at the intersection of 9th Street and Grace Street in Richmond, VA. This is a multi-story, 163,935 sf building with full renovations being performed on both the interior and exterior. Qualification forms are available by contacting Mary Ann Petry mapetry@kjellstromandlee. com. Qualification forms are due no later than March 12, 2015. Participation of Small Business, Small Women-Owned Business, and Small Minority-Owned Business is strongly encouraged.

General ProPerty

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.

Resumes are being received by email only at cgreen@fbctoday.org. No “walk-ins” or telephone inquiries.

The Richmond Free Press is seeking a reliable and creative person for a part-time graphics position. Enthusiastic individual must be proficient in Macintosh Creative Suite Design software (Indesign and Photoshop) to produce accurate, high quality camera-ready advertisements and news page layouts for print production. Duties will include weekly website maintenance.

Meticulous attention to details. Ability to be flexible and work under deadline cooperatively in a team environment is essential.

Submit resumé and samples of work to address below.

Human Resources Richmond Free Press P.O. Box 27709 Richmond, Virginia 23261 No phone calls please

To advertise in the

Richmond Free Press

call 644-0496 IMMEDIATE OPENING P/T Church Administrative Assistant & P/T Executive Assistant to the Pastor Union Branch Baptist Church Chesterfield, Va. Email resumé, salary history, & desired salary Email ubbcemployment @cba1.info Resumé Submittal Deadline: Thursday, March 12, 2015

Kjellstrom +Lee, as the Construction Manager for this project, is seeking proposals for select trades of work on this project including: final cleaning, interior wood trim, millwork, interior office storefronts, aluminum frames, doors, frames, and hardware, carpet and resilient flooring, painting, blinds, kitchen appliances, and security. The following trades will require prequalification prior to bidding : Structured Cabling. The project is a historic renovation to the original Richmond Hotel, located at the intersection of 9th Street and Grace Street in Richmond, VA. This is a multistory, 163,935 sf building with full renovations being performed on both the interior and exterior. Many trades on this project have been bid and awarded in prior packages. If not specifically listed above the trade is not bidding at this time. The bid documents will be available the week of March 9th and the deadline for submitting proposals will be March 31, 2015. Documents will be available for review at K+L’s plan room as well as other local plan rooms. To obtain electronic files of the bid documents contact Mary Ann Petry at mapetry@kjellstromandlee. com. Participation of Small Business, Small WomenOwned Business, and Small Minority-Owned Business is strongly encouraged.

GRTC Transit System is currently seeking a qualified candidate 21 years of age or older to perform maintenance and repairs of building facilities, machinery and equipment. Typically performs work in one or more of the maintenance areas such as carpentry, plumbing, machine and equipment repair and basic electrical repair. The candidate will conduct routine periodic or special inspections, as directed, to determine maintenance work necessary to prevent breakdowns of facilities, machinery and equipment. Candidates may apply online at www.ridegrtc.com.

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

DIRECTOR OF FACILITIES MANAGEMENT AND PLANNING (J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College, Richmond, VA) Graduation from an accredited college or university with major studies in engineering or a related field. The selected candidate will be required to complete the Commonwealth’s Statement of Economic Interest, and must successfully pass the college’s preemployment security screening. A fingerprintbased criminal history check will be required of the finalist candidate. Valid driver’s license required.

TYPE OF APPOINTMENT: Full-time twelvemonth faculty ranked appointment. Salary commensurate with the education and experience of the applicant. Salary range: $64,660-$129,672; maximum starting salary $96,000. Additional information is available at the College's website: www.reynolds.edu.

APPLICATION PROCESS: Review of applications will begin APRIL 30, 2015, and will continue until position is filled.

AA/EOE/ADA/Veterans are encouraged to apply.

The City of Richmond is seeking to fill the following positions: Director of Social Services 27M00000474 Social Services Continuous Drafting Technician II 29M00000548 Public Works Apply by: 03/15/2015 Recreation Program Coordinator 30M00000444 Parks and Recreation Apply by: 03/15/2015 Senior Capital Projects Manager 29M00001050 Public Works Apply by: 03/15/2015 ****************** For an exciting career with the City of Richmond, visit our website for additional information and apply today! www.richmondgov.com EOE M/F/D/V

INFORMATION SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY INSTRUCTOR (Position #FO294) (J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College, Richmond, VA). Master’s degree in Information Systems Technology; or Master’s degree with eighteen (18) graduate semester hours in Information Systems Technology. The selected candidate must be able to successfully pass the college’s pre-employment security screening.

TYPE OF APPOINTMENT: Full-time ninemonth teaching faculty-ranked appointment. Salary commensurate with the education and experience of the applicant. Salary range: $41,263-$82,109.

Approximate maximum hiring salary: $53,977.

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

APPLICATION PROCESS: Review of applications will begin APRIL 30, 2015, and will be accepted until the position is filled.

AA/EOE/ADA/Veterans are encouraged to apply.

Housing Finance AssociAte community Housing officer VHDA, Virginia’s Housing Finance Agency is seeking an experienced, organized, relationship-builder to become our Associate Community Housing Officer (ACHO). Will be responsible for making grants and providing technical assistance to organizations and government bodies working with the Hispanic/ Latino population. This team member will solicit, establish and maintain partnerships with key groups and organizations that will enable VHDA to provide homeownership and rental opportunities to low- and moderate-income households and support local community housing and revitalization strategies. Selected candidate will maintain an integral role in the development of organizational capacity, initiate and manage grants, manage projects, and develop policy and strategy for strategic markets with particular focus on the needs of the Hispanic/ Latino population. The ACHO will work directly with organizations and entities to facilitate access to VHDA’s resources including grants and loans. The ACHO will have the ability to determine the capacity building needs of an organization or entity and work to develop grant requests that meet VHDA’s programmatic goals as well as support furthering VHDA’s mission to provide affordable housing and support the affordable housing delivery network.

A broad knowledge of programs and program design and/or evaluation is desired and experience in project management and organizational development are highly preferred. Individual must have demonstrated skills in innovative problem solving, facilitation, public speaking, written and oral communications, process development, and leadership. Several years in economic/community development, finance and/or affordable housing is essential. Degree in public administration, urban planning/policy, community development, finance, business administration, related coursework or equivalent experience required. Excellent verbal and written communications skills required in both English and Spanish.

Extensive travel (50 – 75%) involved.

Please submit your resume and cover letter, stating salary requirements, before March 21, 2015, online only at:

Director, Richmond Public Library

Request foR PRoPosals 9th street office Building Renovations DGs Project Code: 194-17091-004 Package 3 tenant Interiors

$18.94 per hour Closes: March 11, 2015

Assistant to Minister of Music and Business Administrator

(Position #FA045)

BIDS Request foR PRequalification 9th street office Building Renovations DGs Project code: 194-17091-004 Package 3 tenant interiors

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Description: The Richmond Public Library (RPL) Board of Trustees, Richmond Virginia, invites applications for the position of Library Director. The Board seeks an experienced and visionary leader to build on its successful programs and services and guide the library to the next level of excellence in our community. Library staff and volunteers serve over 210,000 citizens with a budget of $6 million at eight branch locations and the Main Library located in downtown with a Special Collections of Rare Children’s Books, a Law Library, the Richmond Authors Collection, a comprehensive database for philanthropic inquiry, and a depository for Richmond City government documents and records. The RPL system enjoys financial support from the mayor and city council, Richmond Public Library Foundation and Friends, as well as corporate partners, advocacy groups, and citizens. As a destination of opportunity, patrons utilize employment resources, conduct research, access technology, read and learn. The Library Director is responsible for effective leadership in developing a shared vision that informs, enriches, and empowers the community it serves.

Responsibilities: The Library Director works with the Board of Trustees and staff to develop long-term goals and direction for Library services and programs for a diverse urban community; plans and directs the overall operations and management of the Library; practices and encourages collaboration and team development in working with staff, elected and appointed leaders; and works in partnership with civic groups and organizations, agencies, and elected officials at the local, state and national level. The Library Director functions with a strong sense of energy, passion and purpose with a commitment to balance independent action within the scope of organizational policy and best practices.

Requirements: An MLS from an ALA-accredited program and at least five years of progressively responsible experience in senior level administrative/managerial roles in a library, preferably serving an urban population. Excellent interpersonal and communication/listening skills; ability to create and implement a shared vision of exceptional library services; skill in leading a diverse team of library professionals in setting and achieving goals; a thorough knowledge of financial management and budgeting; consensus building skills; and a solid understanding of contemporary library centers and emerging trends in the library and technology fields, with the ability to apply them locally. Adept at cultivating contacts within local government, socially and in the philanthropic community.

Library Director serves at the will of the Appointing Authority. City Residency is required within 12 months of hire.

Compensation: The starting salary range is $90,786.00 - $143,263.00 with a competitive benefits package.

To Apply: For full consideration, applicants must: · Complete and submit the City of Richmond On-Line Staffing System (ROSS) application for the position at http://www.richmondgov.com · Upload a cover letter and a resume’. · Include the names, addresses, email addresses, cell and home/work phone numbers of three professional and three personal references and · Upload a one page description of your vision of how libraries can best serve people and communities in the 21st Century.

Applications will be reviewed immediately upon submittal for consideration.

Recruitment is continuous until filled.

Questions regarding the position may be directed to: David Lydiard, Chair, RPL Succession Committee, RPL Board of Trustees, at dlydiard@verizon.net

http://www.vhda.com/about/careers An EOE Credit, background and driving record checks will be performed as a condition of employment.

Hiring Range: $57,708 - $75,020

Assistant Director Career & Industry Advising Position Number: FA2040

Division of Student Affairs - VCU Career Services Deadline: March 25, 2015 Hire Date: May 2015 Description: VCU Career Services has been undergoing an exciting transformation to become the epicenter of career services for a growing and diverse campus of over 32,000 students in a dynamic urban setting. We are seeking an individual that will bring energy, innovation, passion and a strategic approach to career development and services. Provide career advising services to undergraduate and graduate students as well as limited alumni populations in designated departments, schools and industries/professions. Services include both one-on-one advising with students/alumni and program development and delivery in collaboration with faculty, staff, community organizations and employers, and students. Strategically engage partners across campus to provide these services as well as educate students on the career development process and opportunities that exist (internships, experiential opportunities, jobs, graduate school).

Qualifications: Required: Master's degree with emphasis on counseling, student affairs, higher education or related field; 2-5 years experience in higher education, recruitment, or related field (can include graduate school graduate assistantship); Demonstrated experience working in and fostering a diverse faculty, staff, and student environment or commitment to do so as a faculty member at VCU; Experience advising students on career-related topics; Outcomes assessment and evaluation strategies; Ability to embrace and drive change and to organize and effectively manage multiple priorities, programs, and projects; Demonstrated experience leading teams and developing positive relationships, partnerships, and alliances; Ability to collaborate cross-functionally in the office environment and to interface with employers, students, alumni, faculty, and university administrators; Exceptional communication (written, oral, presentation). Demonstrated proficiency designing and delivering presentations. Preferred: Ability to assess and report student-learning outcomes; Project management experience; Ability to use social media and database systems, (e.g. Experience, Symplicity).

Work to include some evenings and weekends.

Salary range: $40,000 - $45,000.

Application Process: Applications must be received by March 25, 2015 to be considered for review. Applicants must include a cover letter and resume. Email applications to rvhall@vcu.edu. For additional information about VCU, visit our website at www.vcu.edu.

For additional information or questions about the VCU Career Services or this position, email Joe Testani, Director, VCU Career Services at jatestani@vcu.edu.

VCU is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.

Women, minorities and persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply.