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Payout for Bedden

By Holly Rodriguez

Richmond Schools Superintendent Dana T. Bedden will receive $294,571.81 in severance pay when he departs on June 30.

Dr. Bedden was not present at Monday night’s Richmond School Board meeting when the board voted 7-1, with one abstention, to approve his final payout.

School Board member Scott Barlow, 2nd District, voted against the severance package, while board member Linda Owen, 9th District, abstained.

The board announced on April 22 that Dr. Bedden would be leaving the leadership post in Richmond, two years before his contract was set to expire.

The payout, which is to be made by the end of July, includes Dr. Bedden’s unused vacation time.

No interim superintendent has been named, and the board announced a tentative meeting schedule Monday for community input on what’s needed in Dr. Bedden’s replacement. The board hopes to have a new superintendent in place by the end of the year.

Dr. Bedden was with Richmond Police Chief Alfred Durham on Monday evening at the Norrell Annex building on North Side where a school employee was shot and wounded when three juveniles broke into the building.

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Free Press photographer selected for prestigious journalism fellowship Richmond Free Press photographer Regina H. Boone has been named a 2017-18 Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellow at the University of Michigan.

The coveted fellowship is one of three top journalism fellowships in the country.

Ms. Boone’s selection was announced Monday.

She is among a group of 12 U.S. Ms. Boone and seven international journalists who will spend the coming academic year at the university in Ann Arbor, Mich., to pursue an individual study plan and participate in seminars, workshops and international travel with scholars and creative thinkers from a range of fields.

Ms. Boone’s area of study will be family, legacy and Please turn to A4

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Brigette Newberry, center, a teacher at Richmond’s Open High School, shows the Richmond School Board that she wants it to release more information on the circumstances surrounding Superintendent Dana T. Bedden’s departure.

Finally — City Council ready to vote on new budget May 15

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

Veteran Richmond police officers and firefighters are in line for major raises after July 1 in a bid to slow their departure to surrounding localities that pay more.

The pay hike for the frontline public safety employees is among the key highlights of Richmond City Council’s version of the 2017-18 budget that the nine council members wrapped up this week and plan to vote on at a special meeting Monday, May 15.

The city’s 3,000-plus other employees will not get fatter paychecks.

Although Mayor Levar M. Stoney’s budget plan remains largely intact, the council’s version includes a host of amendments.

For example, the council shifted $450,000 to enable the police to replace leaky and outdated horse stables with a new facility. They also found $100,000 to enable Richmond Police Chief Alfred Durham to pay overtime to at least 12 officers to patrol the six major public housing

communities in a bid to reduce a spike in shootings and homicides.

Meanwhile, extra money also will be steered to the city Department of Parks, Recreation and Community Facilities to hire employees to run two recreation centers, one in North Side and the other in South Side, that the city has invested several million Please turn to A4

Bank business turns ugly for local man

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

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Jeffrey Perry, who routinely banked at this Wells Fargo branch on Mechanicsville Turnpike, says he was mistreated by the bank manager when he went to deposit his paycheck last month.

Every two weeks like clockwork, Jeffrey Perry has deposited his paycheck at the Wells Fargo bank branch in Mechanicsville located a few blocks from his workplace.

So the 55-year-old Church Hill resident was unprepared for what happened when he stopped at the branch on April 21 and gave his latest paycheck to the teller whom he said routinely waited on him.

He’s still quivering with rage over what came next — a cautionary tale about how banking relationships can turn sour.

Instead of depositing the check and giving him a receipt, the teller huddled with several other staff members and the bank manager, Alvin Bulanadi, who took the check into his office.

Mr. Perry said he ended up cooling his heels in the lobby for 40 minutes until Mr. Bulanadi approached and loudly told him, “You are trying to commit a fraud on this bank.” Mr. Perry said everyone within earshot heard the statement.

Mr. Perry said he felt like he had crossed into the Twilight Zone where he, an African-American, was being punished for trying to put money into a bank branch whose customers are predominately white.

“I was in shock. I felt humiliated, defamed,” said Mr. Perry, who said he had no idea what was going on or why the paycheck from his Please turn to A5

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Freewheeling Jonathan Parham defies gravity on his skateboard as he gets a jump on a rail at Fonticello-Carter Jones Park at 28th and Bainbridge streets in South Side.

New program to create jobs, new homes and opportunity

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

Buy vacant lots in depressed sections of Richmond.

Then have small, black-owned construction firms fill the lots with modern, affordable homes that can sell quickly while creating jobs for nearby residents.

Repeat.

That’s the strategy to increase financial independence that Grace Washington is putting into action as president of the 200-member Central Virginia Business and Construction Association, a nonprofit trade group for black businesses.

On Thursday, May 4, Ms. Washington and her partners will showcase the pilot effort for this selfhelp effort to strengthen community businesses and uplift people and neglected neighborhoods.

Ms. Washington will lead a groundbreaking for the first five houses at noon at 1501 Mechanicsville Turnpike in the East End, two blocks from Mosby Court.

Her main partner is Andre Massenburg, a veteran

contractor whose company, Amass, worked with CVBCA to buy the long-vacant lots and now is engaged in developing the homes in this first step for CVBCA’s Contractor and Workforce Training Project.

This first effort involves construction of ranch-style homes with three bedrooms and two baths, Ms. Washington said. The homes, she said, are expected to sell for between $115,000 to $125,000. With interest rates still low, a 30-year mortgage is expected to create a monthly payment of $500 to $700 for a buyer, including taxes and insurance, she said.

She said CVBCA also plans to partner with groups such as Housing Opportunities Made Equal to provide downpayment assistance to potential in a credit repair program if needed to make them eligible to purchase a home.

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Grace Washington, president of the Central Virginia Business and Construction Association, is working with longtime contractor Andre Massenburg on the first of five showcase homes at 1501 Mechanicsville Turnpike in the East End.

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Hearing set for May 8 in Wilder-Morrissey lawsuit The legal fight between former Gov. L. Douglas Wilder and former Delegate Joseph D. “Joe” Morrissey could come to a head next week.

Mr. Wilder and Mr. Morrissey are scheduled to appear before a Richmond Circuit Court judge on Monday, May 8, on a motion to dismiss a suit that Mr. Morrissey filed.

In his suit, Mr. Morrissey alleged that Mr. Wilder failed to pay his firm legal fees for representing the planned National Slavery Museum a few years ago in trying to prevent the sale of the museum’s land in Fredericksburg for nonpayment of taxes.

In his filing, Mr. Wilder, who is repreMr. Wilder Mr. Morrissey senting himself, claims that he owes Mr. Morrissey’s law firm nothing because Mr. Morrissey and an associate, political strategist Paul Goldman, agreed to represent the museum at no charge.

The museum never opened.

Mr. Wilder also has argued in documents filed with the court that even if he owed money, he cannot be made to pay because Mr. Morrissey waited too long to file the suit. He also noted that Mr. Goldman is not a licensed attorney in Virginia and so cannot be due legal fees.

Mr. Morrissey filed suit in February claiming that Mr. Wilder and his associate, H. Louis Salomonsky, agreed to pay and then refused to respond to bills for work done by Mr. Morrissey’s firm. — JEREMY M. LAZARUS

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Cityscape Slices of life and scenes in Richmond

Senon Davis brightens the front of Saadia’s Juice Box and Yoga Bar, one of the newest businesses in Jackson Ward. Mr. Davis spent a recent Sunday adding fresh, attention-grabbing color to the business at 402½ N. 2nd St. Opened in January, owner Saadia Yasmin combines yoga and belly dancing classes with a mix of Persian-style baked goods, salads and beverages — ranging from coffee, espresso and tea to raw juices and special concoctions of fruit, vegetables and spice smoothies.

RPS employee shot in building slated for closure

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

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Community engagement About 1,300 people gather at St. Paul’s Baptist Church on Creighton Road on Monday night to express their concerns and seek improvements in issues affecting area youths. The event was sponsored by RISC, Richmonders Involved to Strengthen our Communities, an interfaith, interracial coalition of 19 congregations in metro Richmond working to address core issues. At Monday’s annual Nehemiah assembly, the group focused on improvements in elementary school reading levels, children’s mental health and job training for young

City collection event for old electronics, paints May 6 Need to get rid of broken computers, outdated cell phones or other unused electronic equipment? What about spray cans or bags of pesticides or cans of old paint?

The City of Richmond will be hosting a collection program this weekend to help residents get rid of such items in an environmentally friendly way.

The collection event also will offer an opportunity to shred personal documents.

It will take place 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, May 6, at the old K-Mart parking lot, 6807 Midlothian Turnpike in South Side.

Most electronic items will be accepted without charge, except for televisions and computer monitors. A $10 recycling fee will apply to TVs and computer monitors less than 27 inches, with larger items $20.

City residents also can have up to five boxes of papers shredded without charge. And hazardous waste items such as old paint and garden chemicals can be dropped off for free.

The city Department of Public Works is collaborating with the Department of Public Utilities, the Clean City Commission and New Generations Federal Credit Union to stage the event.

Information: Gay Stokes, (804) 646-0177 or Gay.Stokes@ Richmondgov.com — JEREMY M. LAZARUS

Delays in closing the A.V. Norrell school buildings in North Side may have helped put Richmond Public Schools staff who work there in harm’s way Monday.

A school employee at the Norrell Annex at 201 W. Graham Road was shot and wounded when three juveniles entered the building after 5 p.m. and ran into the employee who was working late. Police said one of the youths pulled out a gun and fired.

The employee’s injury was deemed by police to be traumatic, but not life threatening. The individual, who was not identified, was taken to a nearby hospital.

This is the first significant criminal incident at either the Norrell Annex or at the A.V. Norrell Elementary School building nearby at 2220 Fendall Ave. Both buildings were closed to students in 2006 following flooding from Tropical Storm Ernesto. The buildings have been used as offices for various schools departments in recent years.

Both buildings, named for one of the first African-American principals in Richmond, were to close this school year to save money. But they have remained in use because of slower than expected relocation of staff.

School nutrition personnel who manage the cafeterias and other food operations work at the Norrell Annex. It is a secure facility that requires a person inside to hit a buzzer to release the lock on the front door, according to schools spokeswoman Kenita Bowers.

“I am not aware of a door being left open,” she stated, when asked about Monday’s shooting.

Responding police officers reported having to breach the locked front door to enter. The juvenile suspects were gone by the time police arrived.

Authorities are asking for the public’s help to identify them.

In a search of the building police found a backpack that did not belong to any of the employees.

Police Chief Alfred Durham said investigators are reviewing recordings from cameras located at the outside doors and inside the building to determine if

Photos by Sandra Sellars/Richmond Free Press

Richmond Police Chief Alfred Durham, right, and Richmond Schools Superintendent Dana T. Bedden talk with reporters after Monday’s shooting inside the school system’s Norrell Annex building at 201 W. Graham Road on North Side. Police are asking for the public’s help in identifying the three juveniles who got inside the locked building and shot and wounded a schools employee.

the youths bypassed the door locking system or gained entry without being buzzed in.

Earlier on Monday, the Richmond school system reported an unlawful entry during the weekend after staff members said they found items out of place. However, the police report did not state that any items were missing.

In late spring of 2016, the Richmond School Board, straining to balance the budget, voted to move the offices out of the two buildings to save $300,000.

According to the plan, staff were to be moved before the September 2016 opening of schools. But renovation of the replacement space in three other buildings, including the third floor of the Richmond Alternative School on Leigh Street, the former Ruffin Road school building and the school operations center on Hopkins Road, was delayed.

Schools officials said struggles to get city permits set back renovation work during the summer. It also took time to get bids and to allocate limited personnel to prepare

offices and undertake the moves.

Some staff members were moved from the Norrell Annex building just after Thanksgiving, as the Free Press reported.

At the time, Assistant Superintendent Tommy Kranz indicated both buildings were to be closed by Christmas. But that schedule proved too ambitious.

Currently, Head Start, Driver’s Education and the Teacher Supply Depot are still in the Norrell Elementary building, while School Nutrition is the only remaining office operating in the Norrell Annex.

All were slated to relocate to new quarters by the end of the current school year, but Ms. Bowers said RPS is “in the process of expediting those moves” as the result of Monday’s incident.

Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at (804) 780-1000.

Anonymous tips also may be submitted online at www.7801000.com or by texting Crime Stoppers at 274637 and using the keyword “ITip” followed by the tip.

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Dr. Bedden did not respond to repeated telephone and email requests by the Free Press for comment on his departure and the severance package.

Even as Monday night’s meeting was packed with parents, teachers and others concerned about the future of the city’s public schools, the board shed no more light on the circumstances of Dr. Bedden’s departure.

Board chair Dawn Page said when Dr. Bedden’s departure was announced that the decision was a mutual one.

Several of more than a dozen people who spoke blasted the board for creating a sense of secrecy, feeding suspicions regarding Dr. Bedden’s departure.

Chris Lombardi, a fifth-grade teacher at Mary Munford Elementary School and “Support Our Schools” organizer, peppered the board with more than a half dozen questions, including asking for an explanation of the educational philosophies of the board and Dr. Bedden and their differences, an explanation of where the money is coming from to pay for Dr. Bedden’s severance and what the board plans to do to rebuild public trust?

Many of his questions were met with agreeing nods from people standing in line behind him waiting to speak and more people sitting in the audience.

Fan District Association President-elect Katherine Jordan, who also is a parent volunteer at Fox Elementary School, said she researched reasons for the lack of transparency and was

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School Board members discuss the process to find a new superintendent during Monday night’s packed meeting at Richmond City Hall.

disappointed by her findings. and the superintendent is necessary to “I learned about personal grudges, cure the school system’s ills. private agendas and political maneu“You didn’t break it by yourself, vering,” she said. you can’t fix it by yourself and we’re Others stepped forward to show here to help,” he said. support for the board’s decision, inThe board must name a new sucluding former School Board member perintendent within the required 180 Tichi Pinkney Eppes. days following his departure.

“Thanks for unifying and making According to the board, a supera decision” that could not be acintendent search website will go live complished by the previous board, Tuesday, May 9, and a formal proposal Dr. Bedden she said. for a search firm will be issued.

Former Richmond City Councilman E. Martin Plans also call for public meetings on May “Marty” Jewell also spoke in support of the 16, 18, 23 and 25 for input on the next susuperintendent leaving, saying that Dr. Bedden perintendent. The board also plans to have an was “hazardous to black life.” interim superintendent in place by July 1, and a He said a joint effort by the School Board permanent superintendent hired by Dec. 27.

As is becoming routine during School Board meetings, several parents spoke about their concerns regarding harsh student disciplinary treatment and punishment by RPS administrators and security personnel.

One parent became emotional when talking about his son, who he said was suspended for fighting. He said that while he does not condone his son’s behavior, administrators accused him of inciting a riot and were pursuing disciplinary action beyond the suspension his son already has served.

“I’m trying to keep our son from being a statistic,” he said, getting choked up. “So many have already become statistics and I don’t want my son to become one — for us to lose more.”

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dollars to renovate, but which the mayor declined to staff.

City Council also cleared the Department of Public Works to purchase eight new trucks and hire 15 people to ramp up its collection of appliances, tree branches and other bulk items people leave in alleys and on curbs, but found a way to cut the mayor’s proposed $2.50 monthly fee for bulk collection to 80 cents.

The city’s library system also will get additional dollars to fill vacant positions and have Sunday hours at most branches.

As part of its decision-making, the council supported the mayor’s proposal to eliminate the annual free leaf collection program, leaving home and apartment owners with two options: To bag their leaves and leave the bags by their Supercans for pickup at no charge or to pay a fee of at least $30 and call for a truck to come and vacuum leaf piles.

The nine council members spent more than 35 hours wrestling with changes, including an 18-hour marathon session Monday and additional six hours Wednesday to finalize the spending plan.

Police and firefighter pay improvements represented the council’s top priority.

Veteran Councilwoman Ellen F. Robertson, 6th District, exemplified the council’s frustration with the mayor’s budget plan when she expressed disappointment that Mayor Stoney left the governing body with the task of finding an additional $2.7 million to fully fund raises for police and firefighters.

“This was something the administration as well as the council endorsed, so why didn’t he include sufficient funds in his budget?” she told the Free Press.

While Mayor Stoney boasted in his budget message and in later public statements that he had addressed the issue, his budget plan included only half the funding needed for the raises.

Amid a spike in crime, the pressure on council was heightened as Chief Durham embarked on a whirlwind lobbying campaign to push for the additional dollars.

The chief kept telling the public and the council that he was losing veterans and had no chance of reaching the department’s authorized strength of 750 sworn officers — even adding new recruits — and bringing crime under control unless the pay issue was addressed.

In a rebuke to the mayor in the scramble to shift dollars, the

Free Press photographer selected for prestigious journalism fellowship Continued from A1

the viability of black newspapers.

Ms. Boone will take a leave from her position at the Free Press to participate.

“We are tremendously proud of Ms. Boone and her selection for such an esteemed program,” said Bonnie V. Winston, Free Press managing editor. “It is an honor for our newspaper and the Richmond community to have her participate in the fellowship, and we look forward to her contributions when she returns.”

Ms. Boone, 47, is the daughter of Free Press Publisher Jean Patterson Boone and the late Raymond H. Boone Sr., who founded the award-wining weekly publication in Richmond 25 years ago.

A political science graduate of Spelman College, Ms. Boone taught English in Osaka, Japan, to junior high school students in the countryside of her paternal grandfather’s home. After three years, she traveled solo around the globe for a year, exploring places in Asia, Africa and Europe.

She returned to Richmond to hone her photography skills at the Free Press from 1997 through 2001, leaving to pursue a master’s degree in photojournalism from Ohio University’s School of Visual Communication.

From there, Ms. Boone was recruited by the Detroit Free Press, where she worked as a photographer for the last 13 years, winning numerous awards. Her poignant photograph of a rashcovered child affected by the lead-contaminated water in Flint, Mich., was featured on the cover of TIME magazine early last year, drawing public attention to the water crisis that impacted the largely African-American community in Michigan.

She returned to Richmond in January and rejoined the Richmond Free Press staff.

The Knight-Wallace Fellowship program is based at the Wallace House on the University of Michigan campus, a gift from the late CBS newsman Mike Wallace and his wife, Mary. The program is funded through foundation and news organization gifts.

Fellows receive a $70,000 stipend and full tuition during the course of the program, which runs from September through April.

council took $500,000 that Mayor Stoney had proposed to use to subsidize operation of the renovated train shed at Main Street Station that is soon to open.

At one point, council also suggested taking $430,000 that the mayor earmarked to hire six more caseworkers for the Center for Workforce Innovation — a key element of the city’s antipoverty fight — to boost the number of people getting help to find jobs despite criminal records.

The issue of finding money appeared to be resolved when the city finally issued the long delayed audit of its 2016 fiscal year that ended last June 30 and showed a $13 million surplus.

However, the mayor stuck the money in the city’s “rainy day” savings account and used his authority to block the council from tapping part of the savings. That frustrated council members who could not come up with the $2.7 million to fund a 2.5 percent cost-of-living increase for other city employees or to pay for priority needs in their districts.

The mayor did release a bit more revenue, certifying that rising real estate values would generate an extra $2.2 million in taxes above projections for the 2018 fiscal year — easing some

of the pressure on the council.

In addition, council members Kim Gray, 2nd District, and Kristen Larson, 4th District, used their knowledge of the Richmond Public Schools budget to free up another $1 million.

In the wake of the revelation that the school system had amassed $8.3 million in savings, that led council to allocate $6.3 million of that money after the mayor agreed to certify it was available.

The lion’s share was earmarked to pay off the remaining $4.2 million the school system borrowed for a lease-purchase of school buses. The school system had planned to continue spending $1 million a year to pay off the lease over four years. Council’s decision to use the school system’s savings to pay off the lease released $1 million for the council to use for other purposes.

Council also dictated that the school system spend $1.3 million for technology and required much of the remainder go toward school maintenance.

On other fronts, the council protected the $1.6 million increase the mayor proposed for GRTC’s public transit service and approved funding to enable the city assessor to retain three employees that the mayor did not fund.

Honeymoon over?

Plans afoot to limit mayor’s spending decisions

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

Richmond Mayor Levar M. Stoney’s honeymoon with Richmond City Council appears to be coming to an end.

Asserting that the council needs greater control over spending, two of the newest members, Kim B. Gray, 2nd District, and Kristen N. Larson, 4th District, are planning to introduce legislation that would slap fiscal handcuffs on the mayor and his administration.

If approved, the ordinance would impose limits on the ability of the mayor and his administration to make spending decisions without consulting with and gaining the approval of the council.

In some ways, the proposal addresses concerns that became epidemic under former Mayor Dwight C. Jones. Council members frequently fumed during the Jones era that he kept them in the dark and waited until the last minute to seek their approval on everything from big development projects to the budget.

But even in his first few months, Mayor Stoney and his administration have been losing fans on the council. During the council budget sessions, members complained that they were being forced to make decisions with incomplete or inadequate information.

For example, Councilman Andreas D. Addison, 1st District, was critical of the information he received from the administration about vacancies at City Hall that failed to distinguish between positions backed by funds and those that were not.

Councilman Michael J. Jones, 9th District, repeatedly pilloried the administration for forcing council to find funds to fill critical positions that were left unfunded in the mayor’s budget plan. He said the administration should have provided more disclosure to the council about the personnel needs that could not be met.

Meanwhile, the mayor and his staff has given the green light to the Department of Public Works to spend extra money to fix alleys and mow grass, projects that have been started even before the mayor

seeks the council’s approval.

“Maybe that is not the way we would have decided to spend the money,” Ms. Gray told her colleagues.

The conflict over how the mayor wants to spend Mayor Stoney money and how council would is among the reasons that the Gray-Larson proposal could garner the required five votes to stick.

The proposal that Ms. Gray and Ms. Larson plan to introduce to council, possibly as early as Monday, May 8, would transform the budget from a flexible planning document that the administration can adjust at will into a concrete slab.

The proposal would bar the administration and every department from exceeding the total appropriated “without an amendment approved by City Council prior to initiation of the expenditure,” except in the case of emergencies, according to a statement of principles Ms. Gray has distributed.

That would be a sea change for City Hall. Typically, some departments overspend and some underspend their budgets. For example, the Sheriff’s Office may have unexpected medical expenses for inmates, or the Police Department may spend more on overtime than anticipated.

Other departments may buy fewer supplies or a director might be tightfisted and end up spending less to show it can be done.

Next week, Mayor Stoney is expected to introduce a paper to the council that would enable his administration to shift around departmental dollars to deal with excess spending. Transfers between departments now require council approval.

Last year during former Mayor Jones’ tenure, Councilman Parker C. Agelasto, 5th District, expressed concern that council was receiving the ordinance to reconcile departmental spending just a few weeks

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before the end of the fiscal year, with too little time to give it careful review.

He urged then that the administration in future years bring the information and the explanations sooner to the council so it could get more scrutiny.

The administration, led by Chief Administrative Officer Selena CuffeeGlenn, failed to heed his advice, but now there are more on council who agree with Mr. Agelasto, including Ms. Gray and Ms. Larson, who began their first terms on council in January.

Like him, they do not believe that the administration should be allowed to come in at the last minute and force the council to agree to the administration’s spending decisions.

The new ordinance, if approved, would bring that practice of spending and then seeking council’s approval to a screeching halt. Advance permission would be required for a department to go over budget, unless it was an emergency.

The Gray-Larson proposal also would require council approval for changes within a department as well.

Department directors have long been allowed to move money from one program to another as long as they did not exceed their total appropriation. The Gray-Larson proposal would require council permission that would increase or decrease spending on a program by more than 5 percent.

Whether or not the ordinance is approved, the proposal is a warning shot and indicates that the council, as the city’s governing body, is seeking to make clear that it has no interest in taking a backseat to the mayor.

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Retiring after 40 years Joni L. Ivey is a familiar face and a voice on the phone for people around Virginia.

Ms. Ivey, the longtime chief of staff to Congressman Robert C. “Bobby” Scott, has been a troubleshooter, an organizer, a strategist and a right hand for the 3rd District representative who until recently had Richmond residents as part of his district constituency.

Ms. Ivey is retiring Friday, May 5, after 40 years of Ms. Ivey service to Rep. Scott and the people of the commonwealth. The Newport News native has worked with Mr. Scott since his first run for the Virginia House of Delegates in 1977, through his 1983 election and 10-year tenure in the Virginia Senate and has been instrumental in his office on Capitol Hill since he was elected to Congress in 1993.

In a nearly 4-minute speech delivered Tuesday on the floor of the House of Representatives, Rep. Scott paid tribute to Ms. Ivey, whom he called “a remarkable woman ... friend and closest adviser” who has been “a selfless, behind-thescenes public servant for the citizens of Virginia.”

In addition to her work in his office, she spends countless hours volunteering with her church, Ivy Baptist in Newport News, working with the Newport News NAACP, tutoring young people, working with the local food bank and with the Hampton Chapter of The Links Inc. and taking care of her family.

“I know she has never sought recognition for her hard work,” Rep. Scott said in his remarks to the House, “but on behalf of our entire current and former staff and the citizens of the 3rd Congressional District of Virginia, I thank her for her dedicated and selfless service to our community, our commonwealth and our nation.”

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May Day protests in Richmond

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At left, Kim Bobo, left, and the Rev. Jack Posiadlo of Sacred Heart Catholic Church in South Richmond bless participants in the National Day Without Immigrants, timed to coincide with May Day observances on Monday, May 1. Location: Abner Clay Park in Jackson Ward.

Similar events were held across the country to support immigrants and protest President Trump’s aggressive deportation policies. At right, boisterous protesters march on City Hall on Monday evening to urge the ouster of federal immigration agents and voice other concerns about federal and state policies. Police briefly ordered a lockdown of City Hall to prevent disruption of City Council budget deliberations and a separate School Board meeting. Council recessed while the doors were locked and resumed work a few minutes later after participants resumed their march along Broad Street.

Bank business turns ugly for local man Continued from A1

employer, mental health service provider Intensive Community Outreach Service, was different from the previous 26 company checks he had successfully deposited at the branch during the last year.

“Everyone was looking at me,” he said. “I wanted to shrink into the floor. It was just painful to go through this.”

He said after Mr. Bulanadi refused to return his check, he left. He said no one showed up to arrest him despite Mr. Bulanadi’s accusation that he was trying to commit a crime.

Mr. Bulanadi did not respond to a Free Press request for comment about the incident. However, bank spokesperson Kristy Marshall confirmed the incident and defended the manager and staff’s treatment of Mr. Perry.

“Wells Fargo followed appropriate steps to ensure that the check presented was a valid check,” Ms. Marshall stated.

“In this particular case, there were red flags on the check that caused our teller and branch manager to verify the check through our proper systems. The decision to not accept the check was not made by the team members inside of the branch, but by our offsite loss management department,” she stated.

Mr. Perry, who has retained an attorney to seek redress, said he is not happy.

“Her response does not address the public humiliation, slander and discrimination that I suffered,” he said. “What else could I have expected?”

He said that he still doesn’t understand why he was accused of a crime. At the time, his checking and savings account had a combined $2,900, more than enough to cover the $1,600 check.

“Plus, I wasn’t trying to cash the check,” he said.

“I was just trying to put the check into my account.

How is that an attempt to defraud the bank?”

The check was legitimate, according toYuri Norrell, a regional manager for ICOS, a fast-growing small business where Mr. Perry has worked for the last year.

Mr. Norrell said the company has grown in two years to include four offices and 60 employees.

Mr. Perry helps ICOS recruit clients and assists them with other needs, such as securing housing, food, clothing and medical help.

“Whatever (clients) need, I’m here to help them,” said Mr. Perry, who has connections with about 100 clients, including more than 40 he said he personally has signed up.

Mr. Norrell said the company recently switched its payroll service company from Paychex to Bank of America, which is competing for the business.

He said that there was glitch in the electronic information that Bank of America’s equipment put on the bottom of the check that created problems for computers at other banks.

“Other banks that had problems called me to

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For the missing Yellow balloons are released to remember nearly three dozen people from the Richmond area who have been reported missing and whose whereabouts are unknown. The release came at the first “Bring Our Missing Children Home” event hosted last Saturday by the mother of a 21-year-old who has disappeared without a trace. Location: New Life Deliverance Tabernacle in South Side.

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to rent an apartment and who may want to own a home rather than pay a landlord.

Ms. Washington has been working with CVBCA members on the Contractor and Workforce Training Project since she took over the CVBCA leadership post a year ago.

She said businesses in the organization wanted to boost income and reduce dependence on government contracts and subcontract work, and she and Mr. Massenburg devised this program to benefit members and residents.

“Through this program, we can help ourselves and our communities,” said Ms. Washington.

“There are plenty of vacant lots and abandoned homes, and this is our opportunity.

“The goal is to help our members improve their bottom line while also creating employment for people who want to work but have been left by the wayside, and making our communities better places to live,” she said.

The five houses will serve as an educational project in which CVBCA members can learn how to purchase, build and sell properties to benefit their own companies and their families while also tackling unresolved challenges, such as entrenched unemployment, she said.

“CVBCA members jointly have the expertise to build a house from the ground up in 90 days,” she said. “We have all the skills and tools that

are required to handle everything, from clearing the land and installing the foundation to framing, roofing and installing wiring, plumbing and heating and cooling equipment.”

She said about 25 members are expected to take part in the pilot initiative. She hopes to double the number of participants as members learn how it is done and get started.

“Think about the impact if 50 members bought and built one house,” she said. “That would bring an investment of more than $5 million into our community.”

And it opens the door for CVBCA to help attack poverty with the creation of jobs.

“Our organization is committed to hiring five to 10 residents from the Mosby community, who will receive paid, on-the-job training” to work on these homes, she said.

CVBCA is partnering with the regional Workforce Resource Centers, a federally supported job development and placement effort, to provide workers and training dollars for companies that employ them, she said.

She said CVBCA also is hoping to work with the city’s Center for Workforce Innovation.

Ms. Washington said the success of the program would be a game-changer for the city and the small businesses she represents.

“We wouldn’t need to come to the city hat in hand seeking subsidies. This will show what we, on our own, can do when we come together.”

verify that the check was valid and the amount was correct,” Mr. Norrell said. “Wells Fargo never called. When Jeffrey came back and told me what happened, I called the branch. Mr. Bulanadi treated me so rudely I had to hang up on him.”

Mr. Norrell said that he simply cut Mr. Perry another check.

Mr. Perry said he returned to the Mechanicsville bank branch, closed his account and then opened a new account at a Bank of America branch in Richmond.

Mr. Perry said that he later got a call from a man who identified himself as Justin Sellers from Wells Fargo, who offered an apology.

“I’ve heard nothing more,” Mr. Perry said.

Still, Mr. Perry said he faced additional problems after he severed ties with Wells Fargo and closed the account. The bank received automated payment requests from the company where he purchased his car and from his auto insurance company.

“Mr. Sellers told me that Wells Fargo employees are supposed to check with customers so that enough money is left in an account to make sure any automated payments are covered,” he said.

“Mr. Bulanadi’s staff never did that. They just closed the account.”

Mr. Perry is eager to hold Wells Fargo accountable.

“They treated me like dirt, and all because I wanted to make a deposit,” he said. “It was just crazy.”

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Stay on it 100 days.

What normally would seem like a simple stretch of time has been an exhausting eternity under the regime of President Donald Trump.

He reached, or rather, we survived the 100-day milestone last Saturday.

We are seeing in these first three months that many of the warnings sounded in this space and elsewhere about what would happen under a Trump presidency unfortunately are coming to ugly fruition.

We point first to President Trump’s assault on health care for Americans, which continues with his latest efforts to undo Obamacare, or the Affordable Care Act. The measure now pushed by the Trump administration and Republicans in Congress would allow states to get waivers from Obamacare mandates that insurance companies provide “essential health benefits.” That means states getting the waivers could ditch requirements that insurance plans cover annual checkups, emergency services, maternity and newborn care, and chronic disease management for such health issues as high blood pressure and diabetes.

States also could get waivers allowing insurance companies to charge higher premiums to people based on their “health status.”

People with chronic illnesses, such as diabetes, high blood pressure or cancer, could be charged more for their health insurance than others.

Such changes would return us to the days before Obamacare became law seven years ago, when millions of people had to choose each month between paying to see the doctor and buying medicine or paying the rent and buying groceries.

Many of the 20 million seniors, millennials, families and chronic disease patients who finally have been able to get health insurance under Obamacare are expected to be forced back into the ranks of the uninsured if Trumpcare becomes law.

During these first 100 days, President Trump also has signed executive orders that would undo environmental protections, giving companies and their profits priority over environmental safeguards.

Just last week, he signed an order essentially opening the Atlantic Ocean, including the Virginia coastline, to oil and gas drilling.

The Environmental Protection Agency has pulled a lot of climate change data from its website, saying it was updated to “reflect the approach of new leadership.”

Other executive orders he has issued would ban the entry of travelers and immigrants from six predominantly Muslim nations into the United States and lay the groundwork for dismantling the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act that former President Obama signed in 2010 to protect consumers from another financial crisis and economic meltdown.

President Trump’s budget proposals would end the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program that helps families pay to heat their homes and get help with energy-related repairs and weatherization; cut the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s budget by $6 billion, reducing its ability to provide housing assistance to low-income families and the homeless; cut the Women, Infants and Children program that provides money to states for supplemental foods and nutrition to low-income women during pregnancy and after delivery and to their newborns and children up to age 5; reduce funds to programs that support students served by historically black colleges and universities, including Pell grants, federal work-study assistance and other student aid; reduce funding for after-school and teacher support programs; gut EPA grant programs that help states monitor public water systems; eliminate programs helping to limit children’s exposure to lead paint; freeze or eliminate funding for scientific research on such issues as climate change; cut the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ people-helping budget by 16 percent and slash the National Institutes of Health’s budget by 20 percent, reducing its effectiveness on groundbreaking medical research; and eliminate the Senior Community Service and Employment Program, a work-based job training program for older Americans.

We have not mentioned the president’s nomination of conservative Justice Neil Gorsuch to the U.S. Supreme Court and the impact his lifetime appointment may have on the high court’s decisions for years to come.

Nor have we mentioned his appointments of former U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions as U.S. attorney general and Betsy DeVos as head of the U.S. Department of Education. Mr. Sessions, who has called for a return to tougher policing policies and the war on drugs, already has put a temporary halt to the U.S. Justice Department’s pacts with 19 police departments to end police misconduct, abuses and killings of African-American men, women and children.

While Mr. Sessions calls it a temporary halt while his office reviews the pacts, he said it was necessary to ensure they do not work against the Trump administration’s goals of promoting officer safety and morale while fighting violent crime. His department is more interested in protecting the police than in protecting the citizens police are sworn to serve.

Mr. Sessions also rescinded an Obama-era order to reduce the use of privately operated prisons. Immediately after the announcement, the stock of private prison companies shot up, knowing their financial incentive to lock people up will be rewarded by the Trump government.

President Trump also has signed into law a bill allowing mining and oil companies to pay off foreign governments without disclosing those payments to the public.

All of this has been done in 100 days, when President Trump has cost the taxpayers millions of dollars for security as he flies to his Florida resort to play golf and to protect his wife and son, who still live in Trump Tower in New York.

He has failed to disclose his federal tax returns so that the American people can see whether he has business connections to the Russians and Vladimir Putin. The FBI and the Senate Intelligence Committee are investigating whether the Russian government colluded with the Trump campaign to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election.

And he continues to bring the world to the brink of a nuclear holocaust as he bullies and plays with North Korean madman Kim Jong-un.

As writer James Baldwin said, “Ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.”

We urge our readers not to let the magnitude of the nation’s problems and the results of the last 100 days to overwhelm you.

We must remain vigilant and remain educated about what is happening and continue to make calls and send emails — even if they are weekly — to our representatives in Congress to tell them how we expect them to vote on these critical measures.

In this first 100 days, we have seen the impact public engagement, protest and voice have had on members of Congress and initial attempts by the Trump administration and the GOP to eliminate Obamacare. Your voice is your weapon.

“People can cry much easier than they can change,” Mr. Baldwin also wrote.

This is not the time to sit and cry. We have 265 more days to get through this first year of Trump.

The Congressional Black Caucus has issued a guide, “What Did Trump Do? The First 100 Days, #Staywoke List.” We encourage people to read it. (https://cbc.house.gov/uploadedfiles/ stay_woke_list.pdf) The members of the CBC collectively represent 78 million Americans, 17 million of whom are African-American.

If we really want America to be great again, we owe it to ourselves to stay on it and stay on President Trump.

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No fear of shrill conservatives The shrill conservative Ann Coulter has made headlines because the University of California, Berkeley, wouldn’t let her speak at the end of April. She was invited by college Republicans, but her appearance threatened to incite violence as activists on the left and on the right prepared to either protest or support her appearance.

In the end, the university canceled her appearance, saying it could not guarantee her safety, which has the effect of providing the notorious loudmouth an enlarged platform.

National news programs have featured Ms. Coulter yammering about the anti-immigration speech she might have given. And credible, national newspapers like The New York Times and The Washington Post have both covered the issue on its news pages, but also printed opinion pieces about the disturbing trend of violent protests when conservative speakers — the Manhattan Institute’s Heather McDonald and “The Bell Curve” author and racist provocateur Charles

A. Murray among them — are invited to campuses.

Who’s afraid of a shrill conservative? Liberals shouldn’t be. Sure, people like Ann Coulter deserve to be protested. But they also deserve to be heard.

Protests can take many forms. Students who oppose the Coulter blather can peacefully gather outside a venue where

Julianne Malveaux she is speaking with picket signs highlighting their points. They can peacefully attend her lecture and attempt to ask questions after her lecture. They can take to community forums — from radio and television to campus newspapers — to articulate their opposition to her views. They can stage counter events — how about a pro-immigration speaker scheduled at exactly the same time as the Coulter lecture — where opposition attendance is exponentially larger than hers.

Or they can simply ignore her presence on campus.

Canceling Ms. Coulter’s appearance gives her more exposure than she deserves. It is also a form of censorship that cuts both ways.

At Claremont McKenna Col-

lege, police brutality defender Heather McDonald gave her talk via live stream because college administrators feared violence if there was a large audience. Protesters banged on the windows in the room where she gave her talk, making it difficult to hear her. How would those of us who support the Black Lives Matter movement respond if BLM leaders were treated the same way Ms. McDonald was? And aren’t BLM supporters capable of responding to Ms. McDonald’s nonsense?

Universities are supposed to be places where minds are opened and ideas are exchanged. If provocative speakers can’t visit a university, who can? Where better to hear ideas, no matter how offensive, than at a university lecture or forum?

I’d not like to have Ms. McDonald or Ms. Coulter as a commencement speaker. In a celebratory space, it would be positively offensive to have students of color be forced to share their big day with those who would implicitly deny their very right to exist.

But I see no harm in having them speak on campus. Indeed, it is perhaps most effective to have them debate someone who disagrees with them.

On one occasion, I was initially

Breaking bad with the CFPB Since its inception, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has faced an unrelenting onslaught of attacks. From lawmakers, to lobbyists and business organizations, many still maintain that the marketplace should regulate itself and government should just get out of the way.

Count the chair of the House Financial Services Committee, Congressman Jeb Hensarling of Dallas, as a key believer who is determined to roll back regulations, hamstring regulators and eliminate current rules.

On April 26, he convened a hearing to formally unveil legislation dubbed the Financial CHOICE Act. 2.0. Participating in the session were expert witnesses, the majority of whom echoed Rep. Hensarling’s views.

This bill deserves a new name.

Let’s call it something more akin to what it really would do — financial harm. Congresswoman Maxine Waters of California, the committee’s ranking member, said the “Wrong Choice Act” would be an apt and accurate description.

“I want to be very clear for anyone who is watching — that is exactly what this bill would result in,” said Rep. Waters during the hearing. “The Wrong Choice Act thoroughly dismantles Wall Street reform, guts the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and takes us back to the system that allowed risky and predatory Wall Street practices and products to crash our economy.”

Without a doubt, the bill encourages government to turn a blind eye to lenders that repeatedly harm borrowers by trapping them into turnstiles of debt and re-borrowing that

Charlene Crowell eventually leads to overdrafts, closed bank accounts and, in the worst scenarios, bankruptcies.

Today, consumers in 35 states are subject to triple-digit interest rates that range from 154 percent to 677 percent.

If Rep. Hensarling has his way, Congress will enact a bill replete with provisions that would reverse strides in consumer protection, many taken in the wake of the Great Recession of 2008 and others with origins dating to the Great Depression.

While many state officials have taken on predatory lending in several of its abusive forms, the CFPB worked in concert. As states exercised their respective authorities, CFPB investigated and enforced legal provisions of a federal law that stops unfair, deceptive and abusive acts and practices in financial services, or UDAAP. As a federal consumer agency, CFPB also secured nearly $12 billion on behalf of American families through its decisive actions and national scope.

The Financial CHOICE Act 2.0 would eliminate CFPB’s use of UDAAP. That one reversal would make it easier for payday lenders, banks, debt collectors, student lenders and others to trick and trap consumers without redress. In addition, by specifically removing authority to promulgate rules for high-cost payday and car title loans, this harmful bill also would exempt

further CFPB actions on high-cost installment loans.

Before CFPB’s creation, millions of Americans felt caught, with no hope of breaking debt traps. Now, by fighting predatory lenders at both the state and federal levels, 90 million people who live in the District of Columbia and 15 states have laws that cap triple-digit loan shark interest rates on these small-dollar loans and a consumer agency that will hold violators accountable. Collectively, these states save more than $2 billion a year that otherwise would be spent on payday loan fees.

In many ways, Rep. Hensarling’s bill proposes that the consumer watchdog become a toothless tiger with no bite at all.

“A key goal of the proposal is to weaken the successful CFPB into an unrecognizable husk incapable of protecting consumers,” said Ed Mierzwinski, Consumer Program Director with U.S. PIRG, public interest research group. “An important tool for regulators is the ability to challenge unfair and deceptive practices. The CFPB has been given a third prong, the ability to challenge ‘abusive’ practices as well.”

“Payday and car title loans often drain hundreds of dollars from a person’s bank account in amounts well above the original loan amount,” noted Diane Standaert, director of state policy with the Center for Responsible Lending. “Instead of giving free rein to practices that intentionally push people deeper in debt, Congress should let the CFPB do its job to prevent these debt traps.”

The writer is deputy communications director with the Center for Responsible Lending.

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contracted to debate the antiaffirmative action activist Ward Connerly. He slithered out of the debate and even refused to appear on a panel with me. No matter. I used his printed words as a basis for refuting his flawed arguments against affirmative action.

I share this instance not to toot my own horn, but to suggest that when conservatives are intellectually confronted by principled opposition, they often fold. On the other hand, when they don’t even get a chance to talk, they get to play victim to a larger audience.

Odious conservatives like these should be protested in an orderly way, debated and debunked. There is no way they should be prevented from speaking. When they talk, it becomes quite clear that they are wrong, misguided and narrow-minded. But when they are silenced, their ideas take on an importance that they hardly deserve.

The writer, a former president of Bennett College, is an economist and founder of Economic Education.

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World with Ivanka riding shotgun Now we all know Ivanka Trump is riding shotgun on President Trump’s stagecoach ride through history. She is now the point

person to scout out first the slings and arrows of what President Trump wants to get done on the world stage.

His long-legged daughter can and will handle her shotgun role with vigor. So you can bet that soon her next stop will be Pyongyang, North Korea, to save planet Earth from World War III. Ivanka Trump just needs to take Dennis Rodman with her and these two “ambassadors of peace” will get the job done!

PAUL M. LA PIERRE JR. Richmond

Trump creating turmoil The person that we, the American people, are supposed to trust and call president is putting the United States in turmoil.

President Trump has been given too much power and his supporters think that anything that comes out of his mouth is right.

In March, he signed a revised executive order that bans people from six predominantly Muslim countries from entering the United States.

While the ban targets Muslims, President Trump denies that and claims the media is taking things out of context.

This order, as well as his original executive order signed earlier, sparked protests in major cities around the world and

caused a federal judge to halt the ban for now. But President Trump is still saying to the media that the federal judge will be overruled on appeal.

This man is beyond crazy and needs to be stopped. He does not care about anyone. He is a bigot and needs to understand that just because it may seem as if he has the power to do anything he wants, he cannot.

PETRA MERRICK Daytona Beach, Fla. The writer is a senior at Bethune-Cookman University.

‘Virginians are too sensitive or touchy to appreciate the meaning’ of the Lee monument Re: “Charlottesville City Council votes to sell Lee statue,” April 20-22 edition: I’m a Canadian, and as a Canadian I feel I must first apologize to your readers for daring to comment on an issue affecting only Virginians and not Ontarians per se.

As a lover of history, especially American Civil War history, I find the decision by the Charlottesville City Council to sell the statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee and to rename the park in which it sits to be entirely wrong and wholly political.

It is political Bolshevism of the lowest order and suggests that Virginians are too sensitive or touchy to understand and appreciate the meaning of that monument or the man it represents.

When the city first built this monument, it was remembering the man who the South revered for fighting for its independence in a horrible war. Yes, I know it was an independence to secure slavery.

But let’s remember that Gen. Lee lost and the cause of slavery with him. The man, however, was and is legitimately recognized the world over as a military innovator and genius. Even Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf

acknowledged using his stratagem to win the Gulf War. Historically, likewise, Gen. Lee was known to be a kind but firm master who actually freed his slaves at the midpoint of the Civil War because of his father’s will. Even Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant owned slaves through his wife’s family until the passage of the 13th Amendment.

But no one wants to tear down monuments dedicated to him!

Beyond this, Gen. Lee is recognized as a true gentleman, someone who accepted the verdict of arms and who was loved as a man who did his best to preserve his troops. He was virtuous, loyal, decent and possessed other great values, values that anyone, whether a descendant of slaves, freed people, Southerners, Northerners and, yes, even Canadians would be honored to have and aspire to.

The decision of the Charlottesville City Council, therefore, appears entirely political under the guise of stopping white supremacy.

It is political Bolshevism of the lowest order and is more representative of the politics of the Soviet Union between 1917 and 1989 than of America between 1776 and 1865.

I thank God this group isn’t running Queen-

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ston, Ontario, where Gen. Sir Isaac Brock’s monument sits. I’m sure they would vote to take it down and rename the park in which it sits because it might be deemed offensive to our American friends across the Niagara River who can easily see it from their highway, or

those in Canada who resent historical British rule in other parts of the world.

STEVEN ELEFTHERIADIS Toronto, Ontario Canada

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Pitcher fireballing across bag at The Diamond Getting caught speeding on the highway might get you a ticket and a court date.

By contrast, showing off high speeds on the pitcher’s mound in baseball might earn you a ticket all the way to the major leagues.

At least that’s what Reyes Moronta is banking on as the fireballing, ninth-inning closer for the Richmond Flying Squirrels.

Moronta, who flirts with a 100 mph fastball, does his best work at “closing time” for Flying Squirrels manager Kyle Haines and pitching coach Steve Kline.

Known as the “Caribbean Cannon,” the 24-year-old right-hander from Santiago, Dominican Republic, has dominated Eastern League hitters with a hurling arsenal ranging from fast, to faster to look out, here comes triple digits.

Moronta, who signed at 18 with the Squirrels’ parent organization, the San Francisco Giants, actually topped 100 mph last season with the Class A San Jose Giants in California.

This spring, as an Eastern League rookie, Moronta consistently hits 96 to 97 mph on the fan-friendly radar gun just beyond The Dia-

mond’s centerfield fence.

“Reyes has an electric fastball that gets on you,” said Squirrels Coach Kline.

And that’s not all.

“He throws a slurve (combination slider-curve) hybrid breaking ball with accuracy to fool hitters,” Reyes Moronta Kline added.

To show how valued Moronta’s lively arm is by the three-time World Series championship San Francisco team (2010, 2012 and 2014), he is one of just two Squirrels on the Giants’ 40-man roster. The other is infielder Miguel Gomez.

Moronta is rated the No. 17 overall prospect in the San Fran minor league chain. Listed at 6-foot, 175 pounds, Moronta had appeared in eight games for the Flying Squirrels starting this week, with a team-leading four saves.

In 8.1 overpowering innings, he walked just two batters while striking out a whopping 15.

He was not scored on in seven of his eight bullpen assignments.

Moronta came into his own last season at San Jose, where he whiffed 93 batters in 59 frames. For his career, he’s fanned 278 batters in 217 innings.

He is the latest Squirrels closer to uncork deliveries in the exclusive 100 mph neighborhood.

In 2014, Hunter Strickland used Richmond as a stepping stone to his current job in the parent Giants’ bullpen at AT&T Park in San Francisco.

Last season, Ray Black actually hit 104 mph in an April game at Reading, Penn. Black fanned 53 batters in 31 innings but has been sidelined with arm trouble.

The “Caribbean Cannon’s” right wing feels just fine.

That’s obvious from rival batters frustrated and embarrassed by his blazing deliveries — and by watching the numbers light up on the outfield radar gun.

Baseball on The Boulevard The Richmond Flying Squirrels begins a seven-day, eight-game, Eastern League home stand Thursday, May 4, at The Diamond.

Here is a list of upcoming games and promotions: Thursday, May 4 – vs. the Bowie Baysox of Maryland, 6:35 p.m. (postgame fireworks) Friday, May 5 – vs. Bowie 5:35 p.m. doubleheader, with Virginia Commonwealth University basketball team senior JeQuan Lewis, Doug Brooks and Torey Burston throwing out the first pitch for the second game. VCU Athletic Director Ed McLaughlin will be honored.

(Cinco de Mayo T-Shirt giveaway) Saturday, May 6 – vs. Bowie, 6:05 p.m. (Fireworks) Sunday, May 7 – vs. Bowie, 12:05 (ASK Foundation jersey giveaway) Monday, May 8 – vs. the Altoona Curve of Pennsylvania, 6:35 p.m. (Bark in the Park) Tuesday, May 9 – vs. Altoona, 6:35 p.m. (Squirrel Head cap giveaway) Wednesday, May 10 – vs. Altoona, 12:05 p.m. (Wine Wednesday) The Bowie Baysox is an affiliate of the Baltimore Orioles. The Altoona Curve is a Pittsburgh Pirates affiliate.

For ticket information, call (804) 359FUNN (3866).

Washington signs Alabama players in NFL draft When you need a hammer and nails, you go to the hardware store.

When you need milk and bread, you head to the grocery.

When you’re an NFL team desperate for defensive help, a wise place to shop is the University of Alabama.

Clearly, that was Washington’s plan in last week’s NFL Draft held in Philadelphia.

The D.C. squad used its first round pick for Alabama defensive lineman Jonathan Allen and its No. 2 selection for Crimson Tide linebacker Ryan Anderson.

Despite a solid 9-7 record, the Washington NFL team finished 28th overall, out of 32, in total defense.

Meanwhile, Alabama was No. 1 overall in the NCAA, allowing only 21 touchdowns in 15 games.

With Allen and Anderson acting as twin wrecking balls on defense, Alabama won the NCAA title in 2015 and was r u n n e r- u p t o Clemson University this past Jonathan Allen season.

Allen will need no GPS to arrive for workouts later this month at the team’s training site in Ashburn. He is from Leesburg and starred at Stone Bridge High in Ashburn, where he was twice All-State Group AAA. The 6-foot-3, 291-pounder was the Southeastern Conference Defensive Player of the Year this past season and

finished seventh in Heisman Trophy voting.

Other Allen honors were Vince Lombardi, Chuck Bednarik and Bronko Nagurski Player of the Year accolades.

Ryan Anderson For Alabama Coach Nick Saban, Allen posted 69 tackles, including 16 for losses this past season.

On the debit side, there is lingering uneasiness about Allen’s health after having undergone surgery on both shoulders. His height and arm length are also somewhat suspect.

Washington figures to experiment

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The Richmond Roughriders, in black and green, ride roughshod over the South Carolina Cowboys during last Saturday’s game at the Richmond Coliseum. The Roughriders won 92-0.

Richmond Roughriders ready to give Florida team a workout It’s been easy so far — perhaps too easy, for the firstFornario, who owns his own sports agency, season Richmond Roughriders.

4NarioSports.com, concedes the Roughriders are more a That could change soon. stepping stone for players to a more established league The Arena Pro Football league team is 4-0 and brac- than a gridiron destination. ing for the Saturday, May 6, matchup against another “In this business, you need to have film,” said Forunbeaten outfit, the Florida Tarpons out of Fort Myers, nario. “We’ve got calls coming in from teams looking Fla., which is 5-0. for players — Canadian League teams and teams from Kickoff is set for 7 p.m. at the Richmond Coliseum, the top arena leagues.” with much at stake.

The APF salary cap is $3,100 per game. That “The way it looks now, we’ll be playing the money is spread over a 20-man roster and isn’t Tarpons again in the APF championship game” necessarily evenly distributed. on June 10, said Roughriders owner Gregg “Our quarterback gets more than the 20th man,” Fornario, who is based in Philadelphia. said Fornario, a burly man who said, “I’d put on “Whoever wins this game will stay home a helmet and play myself if I wasn’t 43.” and host the championship.”

The Roughriders’ quarterback is Jimmy The green and black-uniformed RoughridLaughrea, who played collegiately at Boise ers have run roughshod over their first four State University in Idaho and the University opponents. Richmond opened in early April of California-Davis. with an 84-8 home win over the Birmingham Gregg Fornario His favorite targets include Herb Jones, a Outlawz of Alabama. former Virginia Union University receiver who has played Since then, the Roughriders have traveled to St. Louis to on other local arena league teams in the past. beat the River City Raiders 54-39, while adding Richmond Previous arena teams in Richmond have been the Speed, Coliseum victories over the Savannah Coastal Outlaws Revolution and Bandits, and most recently, the Raiders, 94-14 and the South Carolina Cowboys 92-0. who competed at the Coliseum from 2010 to 2015. All After Saturday’s game against the Tarpons, the remain- had their moments but eventually folded. ing home dates are Saturday, May 20, against the River Fornario sizes it up this way: City Raiders and Saturday, May 27, against the Triangle “From where I come from, there is a pizzeria on every Torch of North Carolina. street corner. And you know what happens when one pizzeria Tickets range from $12 to $34. goes out of business? Another pizzeria takes its place.”

with Allen at nose tackle and end in its 3-4 defensive alignment. He figures to help plug the gap on the line left by Chris Baker, who bolted Washington to sign as a free agent with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

Anderson is a 6-foot-2, 249-pound, All-SEC pick who led Alabama with 19 tackles for losses and nine sacks.

While there is concern over Anderson’s speed (4.78 seconds in the 40) and arm length (30.5 inches), he is considered a physical and savvy performer who could be a Day 1 starter.

Washington has a hole to fill since linebacker Trent Murphy was suspended for the first four games of the upcoming season because of a performanceenhancing drug violation.

• The NFL draft nowadays is mostly about big men hailing from big-name colleges. That doesn’t mean there isn’t room for a little guy from a historically black college or university.

North Carolina A&T State University running back Tarik Cohen — all 5-foot-6 of him — was the Chicago Bears’ fourth round pick.

Cohen rushed for a MEAC record 5,619 yards and was Conference Offensive Player of the Year three times.

He was the first recipient of the Deacon Jones Award as the nation’s top HBCU performer.

At the NFL Combine in Indianapolis, Cohen covered 40 yards in 4.42 seconds, the third swiftest among running backs.

Those who have tried to tackle him, however, say the swivel-hipped former Aggie is as fast running sideways as he is straight ahead.

• Speed kills: John Ross, who set the Combine record with a blistering 4.22 second 40-yard dash, was chosen by the Cincinnati Bengals in the ninth overall pick.

Ross also uncorked a phenomenal 11-foot-1 standing broad jump at the Combine. On the gridiron, Ross snagged 76 passes for 1,122 yards and 17 touchdowns last season for the University of Washington.

• Controversy: Cincinnati raised eyebrows in the second round by selecting Joe Mixon from the University of Oklahoma, who passed on his final two years of eligibility to

enter the draft.

No one questions his ability. Mixon rushed for 1,274 yards, caught passes for another 538 yards and scored 16 Sooners touchdowns last season.

Off the field, Mixon has serious baggage, most notably a July 25, 2014, incident in a Norman, Okla., restaurant when he slugged a woman 100 pounds lighter than himself with a clinched right fist to the jaw.

Disturbing video surveillance of the haymaker punch, resulting in several broken bones in the woman’s face, has spread over the internet. After slugging the woman, Mixon quickly left the restaurant. He entered an Alford plea to misdemeanor assault and was suspended from the team for the 2015 season.

And that’s not all. In 2016, Mixon reacted to a parking citation in Norman by tearing up the ticket and throwing it in the face of a female parking attendant. No charges were filed.

Among those protesting the Bengals’ decision to pick Mixon is the ABC television affiliate, WCPO, in Cincinnati. In a printed editorial, the station called for a boycott of Bengals games, suggesting “take the $50 or more you would spend for a ticket and donate to a nonprofit that aids in the prevention of violence to women.”

• Last man standing: The final 253rd draft pick is affectionately referred to as “Mr. Irrelevant.”

That dubious honor goes to University of Mississippi quarterback Chad Kelly, who has Richmond ties.

Kelly, who was selected by Denver Broncos General Manager John Elway, is the nephew of NFL Hall of Famer Jim Kelly, who owns a home in Chesterfield County.

Chad Kelly’s other uncles are former University of Richmond football players Pat and Ray Kelly, also of Chesterfield. Chad’s parents are Kevin and Charlene Kelly.

Born in Buffalo, N.Y., where his uncle Jim Kelly led the Bills to three straight Super Bowls, Chad passed for 6,800 yards and 50 touchdowns in two seasons at Ole Miss, but his draft status was marred by injuries and off-field issues.

Despite the “Mr. Irrelevant” tag, Kelly is expected to make the Broncos’ roster and even contend for a starting spot with the 2015 Super Bowl champs.

Former Henrico student signs with Arizona Cardinals Former Varina High School standout De’Chavon Hayes has signed a free-agent contract with the NFL Arizona Cardinals.

Hayes played the 2012 and 2013 seasons at Lackawanna Community College in Pennsylvania and the past two seasons at Arizona State University in Tempe. He was redshirted at ASU in 2014.

Known as “Gump,” the 5-foot-11, 188-pound Hayes made 42 tackles and intercepted three passes last season for the Sun Devils.

Hayes was a running back at Lackawanna, scoring 18 touchdowns in two seasons, but De’Chavon Hayes converted to cornerback at ASU. He won’t have far to travel for the Cardinals’ first Organized Team Activities May 16 through 18 in Phoenix.

The Cardinals play at the University of Phoenix Stadium, which opened in 2006. Before that, the team played at ASU’s Sun Devil Stadium.

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Spotlight on volunteer chair of Henrico NAACP’s Health Committee Dr. Pamela Hamilton-Stubbs specializes in integrative sleep medicine, the medical practice of investigating problems and resolutions for sleep issues.

She is a frequent presenter who has authored numerous publications on the subject.

But these days, Dr. HamiltonStubbs is focusing on a topic far removed from the subject of sleep. As the volunteer chair of the Henrico Branch NAACP’s Health Committee, she has turned her attention to the opioid epidemic that is wreaking havoc on individuals and families in Greater Richmond.

“Some members of the African-American community are angry because so many AfricanAmericans were jailed and not offered treatment” for drug addiction, she says.

“The Henrico NAACP hopes to help the community heal by starting a discussion on mass incarceration and the new approach of treating addiction as an illness rather than a crime.”

With fatal drug overdoses increasing by 38 percent in 2016 and becoming the leading cause of accidental death in Virginia, the state health commissioner declared an opioid epidemic in the state.

Through the efforts of Dr. Hamilton-Stubbs’ committee, the Henrico NAACP has collaborated with health providers, community leaders, elected officials and churches to provide a series of community information sessions about substance abuse, its treatment and prevention and recent changes to state law.

The next session, at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 24, will be with Henrico County Supervisor Patricia S. O’Bannon at the Tuckahoe Library, 1901 Starling Drive. The presentation will cover substance abuse among teenagers and how schools are responding to the opioid epidemic.

More than 200 people have attended the programs to date.

“Our programs address the needs of the community and are a major way for minorities to learn about changes in drugs of abuse, the criminal justice system and resources for treatment and prevention of substance abuse,” Dr. Hamilton-Stubbs says.

The goal of these programs is to raise community awareness about the new dangers of opioid addiction and resources for treatment. Genetics plays a role in aspects of addiction, she says, and research into genetic intervention may be able to create advance treatment.

The Medical Society of Virginia and the Virginia Dental Association have developed new guidelines for prescribing opioids. Doctors are encouraged to use non-opioid methods for pain control. And physicians are using prescription monitoring programs to avoid over-prescribing medications to patients.

In addition to tackling the opioid epidemic directly, the Henrico NAACP also is concerned with another health crisis — the high number of African-Americans being diagnosed and living with HIV. Because of the relationship between substance abuse and HIV infection, the organization also offers information about HIV prevention during their events.

Dr. Hamilton-Stubbs joined the NAACP in 2012 to honor her mother, a life member of the Akron Branch NAACP in Ohio.

The organization’s mission includes a focus on the rights of African-Americans and other people of color to have optimal health outcomes and access to timely, quality and affordable health care.

“I chose (the opioid issue) to spotlight because I wanted to be sure that minority communities received life-saving information about the epidemic,” Dr. Hamilton-Stubbs says. “Hearing participants say the program was helpful and connecting people to affordable treatment make me feel good.”

Meet this week’s Personality and health advocate, Dr. Pamela Hamilton-Stubbs: Occupation: Physician.

To p v o l u n t e e r p o s i t i o n now: Chair, Henrico Branch NAACP Health Committee.

Duties of volunteer position: As chair of the Health Committee, I help develop program content based on community needs,

identify sites for the program in locations accessible to the target population and enhance relations between the Henrico NAACP and government agencies, elected officials, churches, community leaders and health providers.

Date and place of birth: March 31 in Akron, Ohio.

Current residence: Henrico County.

Education: Bachelor of science degree in nursing and bachelor of arts degree in psychology, Kent State University; doctor of medicine degree, Meharry Medical College; pediatric residency, Medical College of Georgia; adult neurology residency and child neurology fellowship, VCU/ Medical College of Virginia; sleep disorders medicine — selfguided training at Stanford University Sleep Disorders Center, Johns Hopkins University Sleep Disorders Center, Virginia Commonwealth University, Eastern Virginia Medical School and Boston Children’s Hospital.

Family: Husband, Jonathan Stubbs, and Amanda WashingtonLockett and Darryl Lockett.

Area organizations partnering with Henrico NAACP in this effort: Henrico County Mental Health and Developmental Services, Henrico County Heroin Task Force, Rising Mount Zion Baptist Church, Quioccasin Baptist Church, Dr. HamiltonStubbs’ Sleep & Total Wellness Institute, the VCU HIV/AIDS Center, Black Treatment Advocacy Network of Richmond and Petersburg, Chesterfield Branch NAACP, Hanover Branch NAACP and Richmond Branch NAACP. Substance abuse is: The terminology in this area of medicine is changing. The “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders” no longer uses the term substance abuse. Rather, it refers to substance use disorders.

The National Institute of Drug Addiction continues to use the term substance abuse. People use substances for a variety of reasons. It becomes drug abuse when people use illegal drugs or use

legal drugs inappropriately.

This includes the repeated use of drugs to produce pleasure, alleviate stress and/or to alter or avoid reality. It also includes using prescription drugs in ways other than prescribed or using someone else’s prescription.

Reason for increase in substance abuse: The increase is linked to prescription narcotics. Most people who are addicted to opioids became addicted by taking pain pills prescribed by a doctor. When legal drugs become inaccessible due to cost or inability to find a prescribing health provider, some people turn to illicit drugs that may cost less than prescription drugs but are unregulated. The street drug may be sold as heroin but contain more potent synthetic opioids. Synthetic opioids have been linked to overdoses and death.

Opiods are: A class of medications commonly used by physicians to control pain. Because opioids relieve pain and produce a feeling of peaceful well-being, opioids are commonly abused.

Importance of family support: In my book, “Beating Heroin Addiction: When Prayer is Not Enough,” I list risk factors and preventive factors. Something as simple as having a family meal two to three times per week can reduce the risk of addiction. Other family behaviors that reduce the risk of addiction include enforcing rules, modeling the behavior you want from your child and getting involved with your child’s school to encourage children to achieve academically.

What more needs to be done at the state or local levels: Additional educational outreach and treatment programs.

Henrico Branch NAACP could do more if: We had more volunteers and financial resources.

Other health projects: A health fair is planned for later this year, along with a roundtable discussion on the strengths and weakness of the black family and how to support black families.

We also are forming partnerships with other nonprofits to address food insecurity.

Other upcoming projects: The Henrico NAACP Health Committee is working with the Old Dominion Bar Association and law enforcement personnel to screen selected parts of Ava DuVernay’s documentary, “13th.” Following the screening, there will be a panel discussion on mass incarceration and changes in how the criminal justice system responds today to individuals with addiction.

Additional information will be posted at http://henriconaacp. org and www.drhamiltonstubbs. com/events.

What makes me tick: Knowing that my work in the community reflects the mission of my medical

practice: “To provide excellent medical care in the spirit of Christ who served the wealthy and the poor.”

Three words that best describe me: Kind, determined, leadership.

Who or what influenced me to do what I do: My younger brother, Michael Hamilton.

Best late-night snack: Berries.

Quality I most admire in others: Courage.

Greatest source of inspiration: A smile from someone who benefited from my work.

When I get restless, I: Go to a quiet place and talk with God. A really great evening for me is: A delicious meal with family and friends.

Best advice given to me: Stay close to God. Only He determines your future.

What I’m reading now: “Disrupt Aging: A Bold New Path to Living Your Best Life at Every Age” by Jo Ann Jenkins.

Next goal: To complete the print edition of my book, “Beating Heroin Addiction: When Prayer Is Not Enough.”

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Commencement season begins at area colleges, universities The time of cramming for final exams, pulling all-nighters to finish papers and rushing to complete presentations and projects is over.

For college seniors, their parents, families and friends, it’s time to celebrate commencement and the next step on the journey.

An array of speakers — from an inspiring, groundbreaking NASA mathematician to a former U.S. vice presidential hopeful — area poised to deliver commencement addresses at upcoming events in Richmond and nearby.

Below is a partial list: Saturday, May 6 Norfolk State University, 4 p.m., Norfolk Scope, 201 E. Brambleton Ave, Norfolk. Speaker: Nina Turner, assistant professor of history at Cuyahoga Community College in Cleveland, political commentator and former Ohio state senator. This is NSU’s 100th commencement ceremony.

Sunday, May 7 University of Richmond, 2 p.m., Robins Center on campus.

Speaker: Sheila Johnson, co-founder of Black Entertainment Television and founder and CEO of Salamander Hotels & Resorts.

Friday, May 12 Virginia Tech, 8:30 a.m., Lane Stadium, Blacksburg. Speaker: Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook and author of the newly released book, “Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience

and Finding Joy.” John Tyler Community College, 6:30 p.m., Multi-Purpose Center at Virginia State University, 20809 2nd Ave., Petersburg.

Speaker: State Sen. Rosalyn R. Dance of Petersburg and JTCC alumna and member of the school foundation’s board.

Saturday, May 13 Virginia State University, 9 a.m. and 2 p.m., VSU MultiPurpose Center, 20809 2nd Ave., Petersburg. Speaker: Jeff Johnson, managing principal of JIJ Communications strategy firm and motivational speaker.

Virginia Union University, 10 a.m., Hovey Field on campus, 1500 N. Lombardy St. Speaker: Gov. Terry McAuliffe.

Virginia Commonwealth University, 10 a.m., Richmond Coliseum, 601 E. Leigh St. Speaker: U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine, who ran for vice president in November on the Democratic ticket and is a former Virginia governor and former Richmond mayor.

College of William & Mary, 10 a.m., Kaplan Arena on campus, Williamsburg. Speaker: Walter Isaacson, president and CEO of the Aspen Institute and former chairman and CEO of CNN. Howard University, 10 a.m., the Upper Quadrangle of the main campus, 2400 Sixth St. N.W., Washington. Speaker: U.S. Sen. Kamala D. Harris of California, an HU alumna and the first African-American and first woman to serve as attorney general of California.

Richard Bland College, 3 p.m., Statesman Hall on campus, 11301 Johnson Rd., Petersburg. Speaker: Tom Dorsey, co-founder of Dorsey, Wright & Associates, an investment firm in Richmond.

Sunday, May 14 Hampton University, 10 a.m., Armstrong Stadium on campus, Hampton. Speaker: Katherine Johnson, retired NASA mathematician whose trailblazing life and work were featured in the 2016 film, “Hidden Figures.”

J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College, 2 p.m., VCU’s Siegel Center, 1200 W. Broad St. Speaker: Jamelle Wilson, dean of the School of Professional and Continuing Studies at the University of Richmond.

Friday, May 19 University of Virginia, 3 p.m., the Lawn on campus, Charlottesville. Speaker: Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos, valedictory exercises. Other speakers: Deborah E. McDowell, professor of English at U.Va. and director of the university’s Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies, 10 a.m. Saturday, May 20, the Lawn on campus; Robert C. Planta, dean of U.Va.’s Curry School of Education, 10 a.m. Sunday, May 21, the Lawn on campus.

Saturday, May 27 Randolph-Macon College, 10 a.m., Frank E. Brown Fountain Plaza on campus, Ashland. Speaker: Daniel H. Weiss, president and interim chief executive of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

RVA East End Festival set Benefit May 6 for Earl Fleming for Friday, Saturday at Chimborazo “A Night of Elegance” to benefit Earl Fleming, a well known Richmond makeup artist, drag performer and LGBTQ community advocate, will be held Saturday, May 6, at Liquid Studios, 9200 Stony Point Parkway in South Side.

The event, presented

by Monica L. Ball, CEO Earl Fleming and president of Real Talk With Monica, will feature a fashion preview from 3 to 6 p.m., with commentary by Mr. Fleming, followed by comedy, poetry, singing and dancing from 6 to 9 p.m.

Mr. Fleming, 63, has been recuperating since undergoing a heart and kidney transplant on Dec. 1. An article detailing his new chance at life and advocacy work was featured in the Richmond Free Press in late December.

Vendors, raffles and door prizes also will be part of the event.

Tickets for the fundraiser are $5 for general admission and $10 for admission, food and beverages.

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RVA East End Festival, a two-day celebration featuring the art and musical talents of public school students in Richmond’s East End, will be held Friday, May 5, and Saturday, May 6, at Chimborazo Park, 3201 E. Broad St. The theme for the free event: The Gift of Arts and Music.

The Richmond Symphony has provided its “Big Tent,” a traveling amphitheater-style stage, for the festival, which will run from 5 to 9 p.m. on Friday and from noon to 8 p.m. on Saturday.

Highlights include a performance Friday evening by the Richmond Symphony and student musical and dance performances from noon to 2 p.m. Saturday by George Mason and Chimborazo elementary schools, Armstrong High School, Church Hill Academy and Commonwealth Dance

Academy.

A variety of other local groups, including Ezibu Muntu, Richmond Urban Dance, The Cheats Movement and Mahogany Soul, will perform from 2 to 8 p.m. Saturday.

An exhibit of artwork by students in East End public schools will be on display and there will be activities for children, vendors, food trucks and a beer garden.

Gov. Terry McAuliffe and his wife, First Lady Dorothy McAuliffe, are honorary chairs of the festival, which is now in its second year.

Money raised at the festival through individual donations and corporate and foundation support is used to boost music

and arts programs at Richmond Public Schools in the East End. As a result of last year’s inaugural festival, a full set of string instruments was given to the East End schools — Bellevue, Chimborazo, Fairfield Court, George Mason and

State marker to note Power couple to give free dance Highland Park history lessons at Black History Museum For more than 50 years, Highland Park has been a predominately African-American neighborhood.

But this weekend, memories of an earlier era will be revived when a new history marker is unveiled at Ann Hardy Plaza, 3301 Carolina Ave. The marker, “Italians in Richmond,” is to be dedicated 1 p.m. Sunday, May 7.

It recalls a time when immigrants from Italy called the area near the park home.

The marker states that before the Civil War in 1861, new arrivals from Italy had become a “small, but cohesive segment” of the city’s population. Many were artisans whose touch can be found in housing designs and in the metal work that decorates the front of houses and commercial buildings.

According to the marker, the Italian influence on Highland Park was most notable from the 1920s to the early 1960s when about 100 families from Italy’s Tuscany region settled around Ann Hardy Plaza in what for a time was known as “Little Italy.”

Central to the community, the marker states, were Umberto Balducci’s Italian Club and nearby St. Elizabeth Catholic Church, which for several decades also operated a school.

“Little Italy” came to an end, though, as more African-Americans moved into Highland Park, in part, after being displaced by the development of interstate highways through Jackson Ward and the city’s urban renewal projects in Fulton and Randolph.

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Civil rights icons such as Fannie Lou Hamer, Dr. Martin The Black Lives Matter Luther King Jr., Medgar Evers movement is benefiting white and others endured, were beaten, women, the movie “Moonlight” abused and died so that the was a showcase of crazy, and current generation could vote Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reinwithout worrying about threats deer is a story that has a not-soto their lives, she said. sweet, enduring side to it.

And she warned that AfricanSo said award-winning poet, Americans must be steadfast and writer, commentator, activist careful about getting distracted and Virginia Tech professor by the antics of the current Nikki Giovanni. administration in the White Ms. Giovanni was the keyHouse. note speaker April 28 for “In In addressing the apathy that the Humanities and Beyond,” a seems to exist among several daylong conference at Virginia voting segments, she said active Union University on underparticipation in the community graduate research. is a must, not an option.

Her luncheon talk, held in “You don’t have the right VUU’s Claude G. Perkins Livto give up,” she said. “When I ing and Learning Center, covhear people saying they don’t ered the subjects of segregation, have an hour to go vote, or activism, African-American whatever, if anybody feels they culture, meeting the queens of can’t do something, look no England and Ghana, beer, and further than Fannie Lou Hamer, male and female body parts. who took a beating so that we Regina H. Boone/Richmond Free Press All of her topics were rooted could vote.” in an inspirational message Poet Nikki Giovanni infuses humor in her wide-ranging remarks last Friday at Virginia Union University, where she was She criticized celebrities about the responsibility of the keynote speaker at a daylong conference on undergraduate research. and others, including Steve African-Americans as a people Harvey and Martin Luther to stand up, speak out, be heard and share stories of trial and they arrived in the foreign land that would become America.

King III for visiting with the current president, saying such “Think about being under the deck of a ship, not knowing meetings were just a veil for the fact that President Trump triumph.

Richmond Mayor Levar M. Stoney, who briefly attended, where you are going or what you’re going to face when you get is selling racism. proclaimed April 28 “Nikki Giovanni Day,” as did Mayor there,” she said. “How did we handle it? Music.”

Just like Santa Claus used Rudolph the Red-Nosed ReinLike all creative endeavors, today’s art has some hits and deer.

Richard Headen of the village of Lincoln Heights, Ohio, where misses in her opinion.

Ms. Giovanni grew up.

“Everybody laughed at Rudolph until they needed something “I hated that movie ‘Moonlight,’ ” she said. “Everybody in from him,” she said. “We can’t make this fool in the White “I’m incredibly proud of the Black Lives Matter movement,” Ms. Giovanni told the Richmond Free Press in an interview it was crazy.

House make us feel alienated from our own country — this “But ‘Hidden Figures’ — now that was the best film of the country belongs to us.” before her talk. “The movement gives impetus to a number of people for change and it’s been a big help to mobilizing white year,” she continued. “There are more stories like those that Telling the stories of how African-Americans persisted and need to be told, and the generation coming up needs to find thrived, even during the suffocating factors of extreme oppression women.

“It’s easy to see how, for white women, rights to their own and tell those stories.” and institutionalized racism, is important in creating AfricanActivists in the Civil Rights Movement created space for American legacy, she said. bodies are being bought and sold in Washington,” she said, referring to President Trump signing legislation in April that stories such as “Hidden Figures” to be lived through and told, “Remember to tell the stories you have and share them bestrengthens state and local government rights to withhold federal Ms. Giovanni said in her speech. While racism is here and is cause you don’t want someone else to tell your story,” she said. funding for family planning services related to contraception, likely to continue to exist, African-Americans no longer have “Happiness is a decision — and (stories give) you something to face “colored only” water fountains, entrances or seating on that you can build on.” fertility, pregnancy care and more.

Countering such measures requires strength and resilience that buses.

She ended her talk by describing how the ability of African“I’m proud of the work of my generation because we shut Americans to make “chitlins” into a delicacy is an example of can be derived from art, she said. Music, for example, helped Africans cope with the devastating circumstances of the Middle down segregation,” she said. “Black people are an amazing “making a way out of no way.”

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More help requested at Evergreen, East End cemeteries

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

More help, please.

That’s the plea from Marvin Harris, founder and president of the nonprofit Evergreen Restoration Foundation that is dedicated to improving the historic 60-acre Evergreen Cemetery on the border between Richmond and Henrico County in the East End. “Spring is here, and the grass, weeds, vines, trees and other plants are starting to grow again and take over the cemetery,” said Mr. Harris.

“We need the help of 30 owners of weed eaters to assist us in maintaining the portion of the cemetery that already has been cleared. We’re hoping that relatives of those buried here will see the progress and pitch in to tend their family graves,” he said.

“We’re hoping that churches will urge members to volunteer in this effort to transform this cemetery, as well as adjacent East End cemetery, which is equally neglected.

“If nothing else, we’re hoping people will make contributions so the foundation could hire a professional firm to assist in tree and brush removal,” he said.

For the past year, Mr. Harris has led the volunteer effort to remove brush, trash and overgrowth that has obscured the graves of businesswoman Maggie L. Walker, banker and newspaper editor John Mitchell

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Despite the best efforts of volunteers, grass and weeds continue growing around grave markers at historic Evergreen Cemetery in the East End. Organizers are seeking more help clearing brush during the spring and summer growing seasons.

Jr. and thousands of other people who are buried in Evergreen.

Evergreen and the adjacent and equally historic East End Cemetery, both dating to the 1890s, have become overgrown because families were not

required to contribute to a perpetual care fund. In recent decades, the state has required private cemeteries to collect fees from families to ensure graves are tended.

Since March 2016, “we’ve been

able to clear about 15.5 acres in Evergreen with the extraordinary volunteer help we’ve had,” said Mr. Harris, a real estate broker with his family’s business, MAP Investments and Realty LLC. But nearly three-

quarters of the graveyard’s acreage remains to be done.

He praised Richmond Delegate Delores L. McQuinn who recently brought 300 volunteers, including Mayor Levar M. Stoney and other members of Richmond’s General Assembly delegation, to take part in the restoration work in the two cemeteries.

But, he said, it is a continuing effort that takes more than just one-time volunteers. He said there are some regulars, including a small band that turns out each Thursday to continue the work: James Giles, Ron Hicks, Barney Lomax, George Nixon, Al Smith and Al Simmons.

More are needed, he said, to help at Evergreen and support the work of John Shuck, a retiree who has led the effort to upgrade the 16 acres in East End Cemetery. About 4 acres of that cemetery have been cleared, Mr. Shuck estimated.

Individuals and groups interested in volunteering are asked to call Mr. Harris at (804) 240-1418 or Mr. Shuck at (804) 728-9475.

Mr. Harris said the work to improve the both cemeteries is expected to get a bit easier after July 1 when a state grant of $30,000 will become available.

That funding could help pay for equipment for volunteers to use and to maintain the areas already cleared in the two cemeteries.

Mount Olive Baptist Church walk to symbolize 150-year history

By Bonnie V. Winston

When members of Mount Olive Baptist Church make the 8/10th of a mile walk from Hungary Road Baptist Church to their sanctuary in Henrico County this Saturday, it will symbolize an important journey in the church’s 150-year history.

“The end of slavery changed the way we worshipped as AfricanAmericans in the Yellow Tavern community” of Henrico, said Deloris M. Lawson, chair of Mount Olive’s 150th Anniversary Committee and chair of the church’s historical ministry.

As African-Americans, Mount Olive members originally worshipped at the white-run North Run Baptist Church but were segregated in a section for black people, Ms. Lawson said.

To worship freely and without the oversight of white ministers, African-American churchgoers purchased 1.18 acres of land to build their own church, which they dubbed “Brush Arbor.”

“It was built by members with tree limbs and brush,” Ms. Lawson said, “like a lean-to. It was on the same site where we are located today.”

The price of the land, she said, was $40 when it was purchased on May 2, 1867.

The church’s 170 members were led by the Rev. Burrell Toler, an African-American minister sent by the Shiloh Baptist Association, which formally recognized the new congregation, according to church documents.

Since then, Mount Olive has grown to 550 members, some of whom are descendants of the original members. The congregation, now led by the Rev. Darryl Thompson, has two buildings — an 800-seat sanctuary with offices and meeting rooms for Bible study and a 300-person-capacity Fellowship Hall, where it operates two food pantries.

The white North Run Baptist Church from which the Mount Olive congregation sprang is now called Hungary Road Baptist Church. It is located right down the road.

At 9:30 a.m. Saturday, May 6, members of Mount Olive will walk from that church at 1733 Hungary Road to Mount Olive, 8775 Mount Olive Ave. They call the event the “First Annual Brush Arbor Walk,” the kickoff of its 150th anniversary celebration. The walk’s grand marshal will be Rev. Thompson.

A replica of Brush Arbor has been crafted by church trustees Eugene Mallory and Raymond Mitchell and will be on view at the church, Ms. Lawson said.

The walk will be followed by an old fashioned ice cream

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Eugene Mallory, left, and Raymond Mitchell, trustees at Mount Olive Baptist Church in Henrico County, show the replica they designed and made of “Brush Arbor,” the first structure built by the congregation at its start 150 years ago. The replica’s interior has seats and a Bible resting on the pulpit.

social, which will be open to the public without charge.

Ms. Lawson said plans calls for special programs throughout the year, including a classic and antique car show in June and July, programs featuring the Rev. Al Sharpton, founder and president of the National Action Network, and anniversary speaker Dr. John W. Kinney, retiring dean of the Samuel DeWitt Proctor School of Theology at Virginia Union University.

Information: Ms. Lawson, delorislawson@comcast.net or (804) 519-1098.

Broad Rock Baptist Church 5106 Walmsley Blvd., Richmond, VA 23224 804-276-2740 • 804-276-6535 (fax) www.BRBCONLINE.org

Early Morning Worship ~ 8 a.m.

Sunday School ~ 9:30 a.m.

Morning Worship ~ 11 a.m.

4th Sunday Unified Worship Service ~ 9:30 a.m.

Bible Study: Wednesdays, 11:30 a.m. & 7 p.m.

Sermons Available at BRBCONLINE.org

“MAKE IT HAPPEN”

Triumphant

Baptist Church

2003 Lamb Avenue Dr. Arthur M. Jones, Sr., Pastor (804) 321-7622

We Embrace Diversity — Love For All! Come worship with us!

Pastor Yvonne Jones Bibbs

16 Anniversary Celebration Sunday, May 7, 2017 11:00 AM - Morning Worship

Guest Speaker: Rev. Dr. Clifton Whitaker, Pastor Emeritus,

Prayer Services: Wednesday (1st & 3rd ) 7 a.m.

Every Wednesday 8 p.m.

Grayland Baptist Church, Richmond, Virginia

Communion - 1st Sunday , Pastor

Thursday, May 4, 2017 6:30 p.m. - Prayer & Praise 7:00 p.m. - Women’s Bible Study Guest Minister: Minister Desiree A. Jenkins

Friday, May 5, 2017

6:30 p.m. - Fellowship, Faith & Fashion Show Dinner Boxed lunches will only be provided to those who have reserved in advance.

2040 Mountain Road • Glen Allen, Virginia 23060 Office 804-262-0230 • Fax 804-262-4651 • www.stpeterbaptist.net

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Bible Study: Tuesday - 9 a.m.

Wednesday - 7 p.m.

and Confident” Ephesians 3:11-13 NKJV

Color scheme for this event will be white with accents of red.

Theme for 2016-2020: Mobilizing For Ministry Refreshing The Old and Emerging The New

Church School - 9:30 a.m.

Worship Service - 11:15 a.m.

2017 Women’s Retreat “Bold Women of God: Faithful, Courageous,

10:00 a.m. - Women’s Day Unity Worship Service Guest Minister: Rev. Dr. MarQuita Carmichael Burton

Sixth Baptist Church A 21st Century Church With Ministry For Everyone

Dr. Kirkland R. Walton, Pastor

Sunday, May 7, 2017

Pastor Kevin Cook

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St. Peter Baptist Church

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400 South Addison Street Richmond, Va. 23220

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(804) 359- 1691 or 359- 3498 Fax (804) 359- 3798 www.sixthbaptistchurch.org

(near Byrd Park)

Mount Olive Baptist Church

in Glen Allen, Virginia is seeking a part-time Custodian (15-20 hours per week) during the evening hours and on weekends.

Day hours will be required periodically.

Please visit the church’s website at www.mobcva.org to view the complete job announcement for this position.

A Criminal History Background Check is required.

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Ooh la la Far left, Sister Rose Marie, dressed in her habit and high-top hiking boots, talks on the phone after accepting a donation at the French Food Festival last Saturday at the Little Sisters of the Poor on Michaels Road in Henrico County. Culinary delights, such as dessert crepes, ratatouille and shrimp and grits were prepared by local chefs for a delighted crowd.

Left, Julia and Jeff Schurott enjoy gumbo as their twin daughters, Eloise and Piper, can only watch. The annual event is a fundraiser supporting the work of the nuns in caring for the lowincome elderly.

Photos by Sandra Sellars/Richmond Free Press

Please join the Ladies of UNION BAPTIST CHURCH For

Women’s Day Mother&’s Day

Celebration

ProvErbS 31:30

Riverview Baptist Church

2604 Idlewood Avenue, Richmond, Va. 23220 • (804) 353-6135 www.riverviewbaptistch.org Rev. Dr. Stephen L. Hewlett, Pastor • Rev. Dr. Ralph Reavis, Sr. Pastor Emeritus

Mother’s Day 2017 “Mother: The Essence of Faith and Love”

Saturday, May 13 “Mother’s Day Paint and Sip with a Twist” 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Westwood Baptist Church Women’s Day Celebration

“EmpoweringWomen: EmpoweringHumanity”

Please join us as we celebrate our Women of WestWood

Strength and dignity are her clothing, and she laughs at the time to come.

Sunday, May 14 11:00 AM Guest Speaker Rev. Danielle L. Bridgeforth

(Proverbs 31:25)

Sunday, May 7, 2017 sunday school 8:30 am Corporate Worship 9:45 am

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New Deliverance Evangelistic Church

Dr. Sylvester T. Smith, Pastor “There’s A Place for You” Tuesday Sunday 10:30 AM Bible Study 9:30 AM Church School 6:30 PM Church-wide Bible Study 11:00 AM Worship Service 6:30 PM Men's Bible Study (Each 2nd and 4th) (Holy Communion Thursday each 2nd Sunday) Wednesday (Following 2nd Sunday) 6:30 PM Prayer Meeting

Mount Olive Baptist Church

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Tuesdays

Noon Day Bible Study

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

8:00 a.m. Sunday School 9:00 a.m. Worship Service

Wednesday Services Noonday Bible Study 12noon-1:00 p.m.

Attendance - 52 Sanctuary - All Are Welcome!

Wednesday Evening Bible Study 7 p.m.

Attendance - 120

Saturday 8:30 a.m. Intercessory Prayer

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

Also, for your convenience.

Tune in

on Sunday Morning to WTVR-Channel 6 - 8:30 a.m.

Wednesdays

6:30 p.m.

Prayer and Praise 7:00 p.m.

Adult Bible Study

Baptist Church 1813 Everett Street

Richmond, VA 23224 (804) 231-5884 Reverend Robert C. Davis, 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.

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

Sunday, May 7, 2017 8:30 a.m. ... Sunday School 10:00 a.m... Morning Worship Holy Communion

WEDNESDAYS

THURSDAYS

6:00 p.m. ..... Prayer Service 6:30 p.m. ..... Bible Study

1:30 p.m.

Bible Study

Ebenezer Baptist Church 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

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. 6:45 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

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May 7, 2017 10:30 A.M.

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THE NEW DELIVERANCE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY (NDCA)

Bring your favorite game and your appetite for fun!

ENROLL NOW!!!

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

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

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

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

Union

“The People’s Church”

(First Peter 5:6)

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Union baptist Church

ALL EVENTS ARE FREE!

8:30 a.m. ... Sunday School 10:00 a.m... Morning Worship

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Sunday School 216 W. Leigh St. • Richmond, Va. 23220 Tel: 804-643-3366 • Fax: 804-643-3367 11:00 a.m.

Email: ebcoffice1@yahoo.com • web: www.richmondebenezer.com Morning Worship

2017 Theme: The Year of Elevation

6:30 P.M. - 8:30 P.M. / NIGHTLY

11:00 AM Mid-day Meditation

Sundays

Rev. Darryl G. Thompson, Pastor

VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL JUNE 26 - 30, 2017

Mother Marcietia S. Glenn First Lady

5106 Walmsley Boulevard Richmond, VA 23224

Evangelist Susan Moody

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

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

Bishop G. O. Glenn D. Min., Pastor

We will fellowship with our sisters at: Broad Rock Baptist Church

Dr. Keri Day, Ph.D.

Good Shepherd Baptist Church

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823 North 31st Street Richmond, VA 23223 (804) 226-0150 Office www.31sbc.org

{Women of the Bible}

Sunday, May 14 at 11 a.m.

www.westwoodbaptist-va.org or Follow us on Disciples of Westwood Baptist Church

Church School 9:30 a.m.

Morning Worship 10:30 a.m.

MONDAY-FRIDAY Nutrition Center and Clothes Closet 11:30 a.m. & 1:00 p.m.

“WOMEN OF FAITH”

the Women of Westwood are delighted to have dr. Keri day as our Women’s day speaker of the hour.

915 Glenburnie Road, Richmond,VA 23226 (804) 288-3224 Office • (804) 288-3223 Church Rev. Michael R. Lomax, Pastor

SUNDAYS ❖

Saturday, May 13 at 3 p.m. for the play:

Associate Professor of Theology and Social Ethics and Black Church Studies Brite divinity school, ft. Worth, texas

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WEDNESDAYS Bible Study 12:00 p.m. & 7:00 p.m.

“Favor is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the LORD, she shall be praised.”

Theme: Christian Women: Recognizing, Acknowledging & Accepting our Purpose

Join us at 7:00 P.M. nightly! ightly! ightly!

Wee#$y Wo(s*+,: Sundays @ 10:30 A.M. :*u(;* S;*oo$: Sundays @ 9:00 A.M. =+>$e Study: Wednesdays @ Noon & 7:00 P.M. 2901 Mechanicsville Turnpike, Richmond, VA 23223 (804) 648-2472 ~ www.mmbcrva.org Dr. Price London Davis, Senior Pastor

Mosby Memorial Baptist Church A Caring Community Committed to Listening, Loving,

P ILGRIM J OURNEY B APTIST C HURCH R EV. ANGELO V. C HATMON, P ASTOR 7204 Bethlehem Road • Henrico, VA 23228 • (804) 672-9319 672 9319 UPCOMING SPECIAL EVENTS

PASTOR’S ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATING 18 YEARS

“Celebrating God’s Chosen Vessel” Jeremiah 3:15 Sunday, May 7, 2017: 10:00 a.m.

Guest Speaker: Rev. Michael Bell, Executive Pastor Peace Baptist Church, Washington, DC

WOMEN’S DAY

“Growing in Wisdom by Faith” James 1:5 Sunday, May 21, 2017: 10:00 a.m.

Guest Speaker: Rev. Dr. Cheryl Ivey Green, President Richmond Ministers’ Conference http://ustream.tv/channel/pjbc-tv

WEEKLY SERVICES

Sunday: Church School: 8:45 a.m.

Worship Service: 10:00 a.m.

Children’s Church: 10:00 a.m.

(2nd, 3rd, 5th ) Wednesday: Prayer & Praise 6:15 p.m.

Bible Study 7:15 p.m.

(Men’s Bible Study -3rd Wednesday) Thursday: Women’s Bible Study 7:00 p.m. www.pjbcrichmond.org

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Legal Notices City of Richmond, Virginia CITY COUNCIL PUBLIC NOTICE Notice is hereby given that the City of Richmond Planning Commission has scheduled a public hearing, open to all interested citizens, on Monday, May 15, 2017 at 1:30 p.m. in the Fifth Floor Conference Room of City Hall and the Council of the City of Richmond has scheduled a public hearing on Monday, May 22, 2017 at 6:00 p.m. in the Council Chamber on the Second Floor of City Hall, located at 900 East Broad Street, Richmond, Virginia, to consider the following ordinance: Ordinance No. 2017-085 To rezone a portion of the property known as 3900 West Broad Street from the B-3 General Business District to the I Institutional District; and to conditionally rezone a portion of the property known as 3900 West Broad Street from the B-3 General Business District to the B-3 General Business District (Conditional). The property is currently zoned in the B-3 General Business District.

The City of Richmond’s Master Plan recommends Mixed Use land use for the property. The Master Plan defines the primary uses for this category as “combinations of office, retail, personal service, general commercial and service uses and, in some cases, multi-family residential and dwelling units above ground floor commercial. Generally, such areas consist of a mix of several types of uses, designed and arranged to be compatible with one another.” No residential density is specified for this land use category.

Ordinance No. 2017-086 To amend Ord. No. 97300-98-243, adopted Jun. 22, 1998, as previously amended by Ord. No. 2002-71-102, adopted Apr. 22, 2002, and by Ord. No. 2010-47-57, adopted Mar. 22, 2010, for the purpose of amending the conditions of the special use that pertain to the property known as 3900 West Broad Street, upon certain terms and conditions. The property is currently zoned in the B-3 General Business District.

The City of Richmond’s Master Plan recommends Mixed Use land use for the property. The Master Plan defines the primary uses for this category as “combinations of office, retail, personal service, general commercial and service uses and, in some cases, multi-family residential and dwelling units above ground floor commercial. Generally, such areas consist of a mix of several types of uses, designed and arranged to be compatible with one another.” No residential density is specified for this land use category.

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

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the 15th day of June, 2017 at 9:00 a.m. and protect her interests.

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

months.

It is ORDERED that the defendant, whose whereabouts are unknown, appear here on or before the 31st day of May, 2017 at 9:00 a.m. and protect his interests.

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

guardianship of the person, including but not limited to rights of: visitation; adoption consent; determination of religious affiliation; and responsibility for support.

It is ORDERED that the defendant Edwina Ellis (Mother), Zohnelle Williams (Father), & Unknown (Father) to appear at the above-named Court and protect his/her interest on or before June 5, 2017 at 3:00Pm, CourtRoom #4

to appear at the above-named Court and protect his interest on or before June 6, 2017 at 9:20am, Court Room #2.

despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.”

IT IS ORDERED that ROS A B . H E W L E T T, DECEASED and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before JUNE 22, 2017, and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

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

And RONNIE LEE JONES (Address Unknown) And WAYNE JONES (Address Unknown) And THE UNKNOWN HEIRS, D EVISES A N D SUCCESSORS OF ELMOND JONES, LOUISE P. JONES, EMORY WILSON JONES, FRANCIS S. JONES, LILLIAN L. SCOTT, WALTER J. JONES, LILA O. JONES, CARLOTTA J O N ES , H O WA R D R .

JONES, JACOB P. JONES, DOROTHY INEZ PERRY JONES, ARRINGTON JONES SR., ZACHERY WOOLRIDGE, ALBERTA JONES GARNETT and any other Parties Unknown, if then living or be dead, their heirs , devisees, assigns or successors in title, and other unknown heirs or parties whose names are unknown who may have an interest in the real property described herein and are made Defendants hereto as “PARTIES UNKNOWN” DEFENDANTS ORDER OF PUBLICATION CASE NUMBER CL-16002894

The object of this suit is to partition real property in Henrico County, Virginia, to wit all that certain lot, piece or parcel of land, with the improvements thereon, lying and being in Varina Magisterial District, Henrico County, Virginia situated on the western side of Buffin Road, containing 5.381 acres, all as shown on the plat by Jennings-Stephenson, P.C., dated January 6, 2006, a copy of which is recorded in the Clerk’s Office of the Circuit Court of Henrico, County, VA in Deed Book 4201, Page 1728.

AND BEING part of the same real estate conveyed by deed to Elmond Jones by deed from Margaret G. Cross and O.B. Cross, her husband, dated August 1, 1931 recorded August 13, 1931, in Deed Book 253-A, page 2, Clerk’s Office of the Circuit Court of Henrico County, Virginia.

Elmond Jones died intestate in 1945, survived by a widow, Louise P. Jones and four sons and two daughters, namely; Wilson Jones, Jacob P. Jones, Arrington Jones, Sr., Walter Jones, Carlotta J. Jones and Lillian L. Scott, his sole heirs at law. All heirs, including Ronnie Lee Jones, his successors in interest and/ or assigns if any; Wayne Jones, his successor in interest and/or assigns if any; and PARTIES UNKNOWN who may have an interest in the property described above.

Affidavit having been made and filed that due diligence has been used without effect to ascertain the existence of and location of certain parties to be served, and that there are or may be persons whose names are unknown who are interested in the subject matter of this suit;

It is ORDERED that, Ronnie Lee Jones, Wayne Jones and PARTIES UNKNOWN, if then living or be dead, their heirs, devisees, assigns, or successors in title, and other unknown heirs or parties who have an interest in the subject matter of this suit, who are proceeded against as PARTIES UNKNOWN, appear before Court on or before June 5, 2017 at 9:00 a.m. to protect their interests, if any, in this suit and/or the referenced property; and Counsel for Plaintiff I ask for this: Stephen B. Wood (VSB 26581) The Wood Law Firm, PLC 1503 Santa Rosa Road Suite 109 Richmond, Virginia 23229 Telephone: (804) 288-4007 Facsimile: (804) 288-5973 Cell (804)873-0088 Steve.wood@woodlawrva.com

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND LAURA POLLARD, Plaintiff v.

EDWARD M. THOMPSON, Defendant.

Case No.: CL17-970-4 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

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

An Affidavit having been filed that due diligence has been used by and on behalf of the Plaintiff to ascertain in what county or city such Defendant is, without effect, it is ORDERED that the Defendant appear before this this Court on or before the 23rd day of May, 2017, at 9:00 a.m. to protect his interest.

An Extract, Teste: EDWARD F. JEWETT, Clerk I ask for this: Earl J. Gee The Gee Law Firm, P.C. 211 East German School Road Richmond, VA 23224 (804) 226-4111 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER STEVEN DOOLEY, Plaintiff v.

CHERAY SCHAMP-BAZAR, Defendant.

Case No.: CL17000144-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

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

It is ORDERED that the defendant, who has been served with the Complaint by posted service appear here on or before the 5th day of June, 2017 at 9:00 a.m. and protect her interests.

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

TYRONE DAVIS, Defendant.

Case No.: CL17000973-00 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 5th day of June, 2017 at 9:00 a.m. and protect his interests.

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

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF CHESTERFIELD KELLY A. KANG, Plaintiff v.

SWARN SINGH KANG, Defendant.

Case No.: CL-913 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce.

WHEREFORE, an affidavit having been filed by the Plaintiff, Kelly A. Kang, that due diligence has been used without effect to ascertain the location of the Defendant, Swarn Singh Kang, it is ORDERED that Swarn Singh Kang appear before this Court on June 2, 2017 at 11:00 a.m., to protect his interests herein.

An Extract, Teste: WENDY S. HUGHES, Clerk Mary Ashby Brown, Esquire (VSB$74718) Friedman Law Firm, P.C. 9401 Courthouse Rd., Suite A Chesterfield, VA 23832 (804) 717-1969 (telephone) (804) 748-4161 (telecopier) mabrown@friedmanlawva.com Counsel for the Plaintiff/Wife

CUSTODY virgiNia: iN thE JuvENiLE aND DOmEstic rELatiONs District cOurt Of Chesterfield Commonwealth of Virginia, in re Kimberly Hernandez, adriana hernandez v. albert soriano Case No. JJ091324-01-00 OrDEr Of puBLicatiON

The object of this suit is to: Determine custody of Kimberly (DOB 10/27/02), whose mother is Adriana Hernandez and whose father is Albert Soriano pursuant to Virginia Code Section 16.1-241A3. Father’s last known address was 1632 Valor Street, Petersburg VA 23803.

It is ordered that the defendant appear at the above-named Court and protect his or her interests on or before June 23, 2017 at 11:00 a.m. virgiNia: iN thE JuvENiLE aND DOmEstic rELatiONs District cOurt Of the City of Richmond Commonwealth of Virginia, in re JAYDEN RASHAWN PRETTY, A Juvenile CHILDREN’S HOME SOCIETY OF VIRGINIA V. DUVELL SMITH, CHRISTOPHER JONES AND ANY UNKNOWN BIRTH FATHER OrDEr Of puBLicatiON

The object of this suit is to: Pursuant to VA Code § 16.1-277.01, Children’s Home Society of Virginia is requesting that the Court terminate the residual parental rights of the named birth fathers, Duvell Smith and Christopher Jones, whose whereabouts are unknown, and any unknown birth father, whose identity and whereabouts are unknown, and transfer custody of the infant, Jayden Rashawn Pretty, DOB 12/30/16 to the Children’s Home Society of Virginia with the right to place the infant for adoption.

It is ORDERED that the defendant Duvell Smith, Christopher Jones or any Unknown Birth Father appear at the above-named Court and protect his or her interests on or before May 23, 2017.

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER JENNIFER IYANDA, Plaintiff v.

FATAI IYANDA, SR., Defendant.

Case No.: CL17001040-00 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

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER RALPH ADDEI, Plaintiff v.

SHAKITA SPRATLEY, Defendant.

Case No.: CL17000971-00 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 5th day of June, 2017 at 9:00 a.m. and protect her interests.

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

virgiNia: iN thE JuvENiLE aND DOmEstic rELatiONs District cOurt Of thE city Of richmOND Commonwealth of Virginia, in re TONY LEWIS The object of this suit is to: Terminate the residual parental rights (“RPR”) Edwina Ellis (MOTHER), Tony Lewis (FATHER), & UNKNOWN (FATHER) of TONY LEWIS, DOB 6/29/2010, “RPR” means all rights and responsibilities remaining with parent after transfer of legal custody or guardianship of the person, including but not limited to rights of: visitation; adoption consent; determination of religious affiliation; and responsibility for support.

It is ORDERED that the defendant Edwina Ellis ( M o t h e r ) , To n y L e w i s (Father), & Unknown (Father) to appear at the above-named Court and protect his/her interest on or before June 5, 2017 at 3:00Pm, CourtRoom #4

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER JANIELLE WALLER, Plaintiff v.

ANTOINE WALLER, Defendant.

Case No.: CL17000900-00 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

virgiNia: iN thE JuvENiLE aND DOmEstic rELatiONs District cOurt Of thE city Of richmOND Commonwealth of Virginia, in re zewina williams The object of this suit is to: Terminate the residual parental rights (“RPR”) Edwina Ellis (MOTHER), Zohnelle Williams (FATHER), & UNKNOWN (FATHER) of Zewina Williams, DOB 6/19/2009, “RPR” means all rights and responsibilities remaining with parent after transfer of legal custody or

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VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF Chesterfield ALICIA E. RAMOS, Plaintiff v.

JUAN JESUS VEGA, Defendant.

Case No.: CL17-949 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

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

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

It is ORDERED that Juan Jesus Vega appear at the above-named court and protect his/her interests on or before the 21st day of June, 2017 at 9:00 a.m.

A Copy, Teste: WENDY S. HUGHES, Clerk

virgiNia: iN thE JuvENiLE aND DOmEstic rELatiONs District cOurt Of thE city Of richmOND Commonwealth of Virginia, in re TRUETHE OCTOBER LOUISSA KHOL Case No. J-89660-07-00 The object of this suit is to: Terminate the residual parental rights (“RPR”) ANTHONY LOUIS KOHL (FATHER) of TRUETHE OCTOBER LOU ISSA K OH L, D O B 7/14/2014, “RPR” means all rights and responsibilities remaining with parent after transfer of legal custody or guardianship of the person, including but not limited to rights of: visitation; adoption consent; determination of religious affiliation; and responsibility for support.

It is ORDERED that the defendant Anthony Louis Kohl (Father) to appear at the above-named Court and protect his interest on or before July 5, 2017 at 10:00am, CourtRoom #5 virgiNia: iN thE JuvENiLE aND DOmEstic rELatiONs District cOurt Of thE city Of richmOND Commonwealth of Virginia, in re tRAVERIOUS WOODSON, JR. Case No. J-90154-10, J-90154-11 The object of this suit is to: Terminate the residual parental rights (“RPR”) CHARLES TAY L OR ( FAT H ER ) & UNKNOWN (FATHER) of TRAVERIOUS WOODSON, JR., child, DOB 3/9/2010, “RPR” means all rights and responsibilities remaining with parent after transfer of legal custody or guardianship of the person, including but not limited to rights of: visitation; adoption consent; determination of religious affiliation; and responsibility for support.

It is ORDERED that the defendant Charles Taylor (Father) & Unknown (Father) to appear at the above-named Court and protect his interest on or before June 6, 2017 at 9:20am, CourtRoom #2 virgiNia: iN thE JuvENiLE aND DOmEstic rELatiONs District cOurt Of thE city Of richmOND Commonwealth of Virginia, in re tRAVERIOUS WOODSON, JR. Case No. J-90154-8, J-90154-9 The object of this suit i s t o : Te r m i n a t e t h e residual parental rights (“RPR”) KRISTY PARKER (MOTHER) & TRAVERIOUS WOODSON, SR. (FATHER) of TRAVERIOUS WOODSON, JR., child, DOB 3/9/2010, “RPR” means all rights and responsibilities remaining with parent after transfer of legal custody or guardianship of the person, including but not limited to rights of: visitation; adoption consent; determination of religious affiliation; and responsibility for support.

It is ORDERED that the defendant Kristy Parker (Mother) & Traverious Woodson, Sr. (Father) to appear at the abovenamed Court and protect his/her interest on or before June 6, 2017 at 9:20am, CourtRoom #2 virgiNia: iN thE JuvENiLE aND DOmEstic rELatiONs District cOurt Of thE city Of richmOND Commonwealth of Virginia, in re MALACHI & MICKEL PARKER Case No. J-90155-6, J-90156-6 The object of this suit is to: Terminate the residual parental rights (“RPR”) KRISTY PARKER (MOTHER) of MALACHI PARKER, & MICKEL PARKER twins, DOB 2/15/2014, “RPR” means all rights and responsibilities remaining with parent after transfer of legal custody or guardianship of the person, including but not limited to rights of: visitation; adoption consent; determination of religious affiliation; and responsibility for support.

It is ORDERED that the defendant Kristy Parker (Mother) to appear at the above-named Court and protect her interest on or before June 6, 2017 at 9:20am, CourtRoom #2

virgiNia: iN thE JuvENiLE aND DOmEstic rELatiONs District cOurt Of thE city Of richmOND Commonwealth of Virginia, in re MiCKEL PARKER Case No. J-90155-7, J-90155-8 The object of this suit is to: Terminate the residual parental rights (“RPR”) MICHAEL W OO D S ( FAT H ER ) & UNKNOWN (FATHER) of MICKEL PARKER, child, DOB 2/15/2014, “RPR” means all rights and responsibilities remaining with parent after transfer of legal custody or guardianship of the person, including but not limited to rights of: visitation; adoption consent; determination of religious affiliation; and responsibility for support.

It is ORDERED that the defendant Michael Woods (Father) & Unknown (Father) to appear at the above-named Court and protect his interest on or before June 6, 2017 at 9:20am Court Room #2.

PROPERTY TRUSTEE’S SALE OF 1701 Joplin Avenue Richmond, Virginia 23224 In execution of a deed of trust in the original principal amount of $54,500.00, dated June 21, 2001 and recorded among the land records of the Circuit Court of the City of Richmond, Virginia as instrument number 01016754, the undersigned Trustee, will offer for sale at public auction, at the main entrance of the courthouse for the Circuit Court of the City of Richmond, 400 North Ninth Street, Richmond, Virginia 23210 on May 15, 2017 @ 11:00 a.m. The improved real estate lying in the City of Richmond, Virginia and more particularly described as follows:

All that certain lot of land with improvements thereon located at 1701 Joplin Street, lying, being and situated in the City of Richmond, Virginia, and being known and designated as Lot 32, on a plat entitled “Resubdivision of Block G, Richmond Summit, and an Adjacent Parcel of Land, Richmond, Virginia,” made by Foster & Miller, Certified Surveyors, dated September 15, 1967, and recorded in the Clerk’s Office, Circuit Court of the City of Richmond, Virginia, Division II, in Plat Book 8, page 53, to which plat reference is hereby made for a more particular description of said lot.

A nonrefundable bidder’s deposit of $10,000.00 or 10% of the sales price whichever is less, by cashier’s or certified check required at time of sale, except for the party secured by the Deed of Trust. Risk of loss is on the purchaser from date and time of auction.

Balance of purchase price must be paid by cashier’s check within 14 days from sale date. Except for Virginia Grantor tax, all settlement costs and expenses are purchaser’s responsibility.

Taxes are prorated to the date of sale. Purchaser is responsible for obtaining possession of the property.

If purchaser defaults, deposit may be forfeited and property sold at the risk and cost of the defaulting purchaser who shall be liable for any deficiency in the purchase price and all costs, expense, and attorney’s fees of both sales. If Trustee does not convey title for any reason, purchaser’s sole remedy is return of deposit without interest. This sale is subject to post-sale audit of the status of the loan secured by the Deed of Trust including but not limited to determining whether prior to sale a forbearance, repayment, or other agreement was entered into, the loan was reinstated or paid off, or whether the property became subject to an automatic stay under the U.S. Bankruptcy Code prior to sale. In any such event, this sale shall be null and void and purchaser’s sole remedy shall be return of deposit without interest.

Pursuant to the Federal Fair Debt Collections Practices Act, this law firm is a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

FOR INFORMATION CONTACT: James S. Sease, Esq. Sole Acting Substitute Trustee P.O. Box 715 Mathews, Virginia 23109 804-725-4700

virgiNia: iN thE JuvENiLE aND DOmEstic rELatiONs District cOurt Of thE city Of richmOND Commonwealth of Virginia, in re MALACHI PARKER Case No. J-90156-7, J-90156-8 The object of this suit is to: Terminate the residual parental rights (“RPR”) MICHAEL W OO D S ( FAT H ER ) & UNKNOWN (FATHER) of MALACHI PARKER, child, DOB 2/15/2014, “RPR” means all rights and responsibilities remaining with parent after transfer of legal custody or guardianship of the person, including but not limited to rights of: visitation; adoption consent; determination of religious affiliation; and responsibility for support.

It is ORDERED that the defendant Michael Woods (Father) & Unknown (Father)

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

Case No.: CL17-1789 ROSA B. HEWLETT, DECEASED, et al., Defendants.

ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 1320 aka 1322 North 31st Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number E000-0625/003, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Rosa B. Hewlett.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, ROSA B. HEWLETT, DECEASED has not been located and has not filed a response to this action, and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served

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

Case No.: CL16-4736 PATRICIA AMERICA, et al., Defendants.

ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 9 West 31st Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number S0001477/024, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Patricia America, Teresa Howard, Everett Hill, Bernard Hill, and John Hill, Jr.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owners, P A T RICI A A M ERIC A and JOHN HILL, JR., are not residents of the Commonwealth of Virginia, and have not filed a response to this action; that said owner, TERESA HOWARD, is not a resident of the Commonwealth of Virginia, and has not filed a response to this action; that said owner, BERNARD HILL, who has been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to his last known address, has not been personally located and has not filed a response to this action; that GLADYS M. HILL a/k/a GLADYS MILES HILL, who may be deceased and the heirs, devisees, assignees or successor/s in interest of GLADYS M. HILL a/k/a GLADYS MILES HILL, 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 PAT RICI A A M ERIC A , JOHN HILL, JR., TERESA HOWARD, BERNARD HILL, GLADYS M. HILL a/k/a GLADYS MILES HILL, who may be deceased and the heirs, devisees, assignees or successor/s in interest of GLADYS M. HILL a/k/a GLADYS MILES HILL, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before JUNE 22, 2017, and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

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

Case No.: CL17-1892 WASHINGTON KELLY, DECEASED, et al.

Defendants.

ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 221 East 15th Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number S0000191/009, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Washington Kelly and Lottie Kelly.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owners, WA S H I N G TO N K E L LY, DECEASED and LOTTIE KELLY, DECEASED, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action, and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.”

IT IS ORDERED that WA S H I N G TO N K E L LY, DECEASED, LOTTIE KELLY, DECEASED, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before JUNE 22, 2017, and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond, Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7940 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE COUNTY OF HENRICO CASE No. CL-16002894-00 DOUGLAS G. HARTMANN and MICAH C. HARTMANN PLAINTIFF, V. PATRICIA ANN JACKSON WOOLRIDGE, ET AL. 3823 Belker Ct. N. Chesterfield, VA 23234

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND John Marshall Courts Building CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v.

Case No.: CL17-762 JANET LYNN BRAY p/k/a JANET DAVIS p/k/a JANET G. GILLIAM a/k/a JANET L. GILLIAM, et al., Defendants.

ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 1401 North 22nd Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number E0000708/015, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Janet L. Gilliam.

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

IT IS ORDERED that JANET LYNN BRAY p/k/a JANET DAVIS p/k/a JANET G. GILLIAM a/k/a JANET L. GILLIAM and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before JUNE 22, 2017, and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond,

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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.: CL17-763 JUNIUS L. PATRON a/k/a JUNIUS LEE PATRON, DECEASED, et al., Defendants.

ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 2200 f/k/a 1600 Redd Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number E000-0665/032, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, JUNIUS L. PATRON a/k/a JUNIUS LEE PATRON, DECEASED.

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

IT IS ORDERED that JUNIUS L. PATRON a/k/a JUNIUS LEE PATRON, DECEASED, that WILLIAM PATRON a/k/a WILLIAM EDWARD PATRON, SR., and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before JUNE 22, 2017, and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

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

Case No.: CL17-880 CARLOS J. JAMIESON IRREVOCABLE TRUST OF 2005, et al., Defendants.

ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 623 West Lancaster Road, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number N000-0594/001, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Etrulia M. Haynes, Trustee, CARLOS J. JAMIESON IRREVOCABLE TRUST OF 2005, GWENDOLYN JOHNSON WOODFORD HICKS, and VELMA E. JOHNSON.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owners, Etrulia M. Haynes, Trustee, CARLOS J. JAMIESON IRREVOCABLE TRUST OF 2005 and VELMA J. JAMIESON f/k/a VELMA E. JOHNSON, who have been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to their last known addresses, have not been personally located and have not filed a response to this action; that AISHA MONIQUE SMITH a/k/a MONIQUE AISHA WOODFORD and LATISHA CELESTE WOODFORD, who may have an ownership interest in said property, who have been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to their last known addresses, have not been personally located and have not filed a response to this action; 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 Etrulia M. Haynes, Trustee, CARLOS J. JAMIESON IRREVOCABLE TRUST OF 2005, VELMA J. JAMIESON f/k/a VELMA E. JOHNSON, AISHA MONIQUE SMITH a/k/a MONIQUE AISHA WOODFORD, LATISHA CELESTE WOODFORD, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before JUNE 22, 2017, and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

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

Case No.: CL 17-1701 SAMUEL CLARK, DECEASED, et al.

Defendants.

ORDER OF PUBLICATION

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to subject the property briefly described as 1906 Chelsea Street Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number E0000833/019, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Samuel Clark.

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

IT IS ORDERED that SAMUELCLARK,DECEASED, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before JUNE 22, 2017, and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

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

Defendants.

ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 1406 North 25th Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map/GPIN# NESW, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner(s) of record, [ownrec1].

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner JOSEPH A. CARTER, JR., DECEASED, and the heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest of JOSEPH A. CARTER, JR., DECEASED, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; that said owner SYLVIA C. CARTER a/k/a SYLVIA S. CARTER, DECEASED, and the heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest of SYLVIA C. CARTER a/k/a SYLVIA S. CARTER, DECEASED, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.”

IT IS ORDERED that JOSEPH A. CARTER, JR., DECEASED, and the heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest of JOSEPH A. CARTER, JR., DECEASED, SYLVIA C. CARTER a/k/a SYLVIA S. CARTER, DECEASED, and the heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest of SYLVIA C. CARTER a/k/a SYLVIA S. CARTER, DECEASED, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before MAY 25, 2017, and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

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

buyer’s premium of 10% of the successful bid will be added to equal total purchase price.

All bidders shall be required to certify by affidavit that they do not own, either directly or indirectly, any real estate with outstanding Notices of Code Violations under local environmental, zoning and building code law, or delinquent real estate taxes, other taxes or any other finance related matter related to the City of Richmond. The property is being sold “AS IS” without any representations or warranties, subject to the rights of any person in possession and to all easements, liens, covenants, defects, encumbrances, adverse claims, conditions and restrictions, whether filed or inchoate, to include any information a survey or inspection of the property may disclose.

Conveyance will be made by either a Special Commissioner’s Deed and/or a Special Warranty deed, with adjustment of real estate property taxes made as of the date of confirmation of the sale. All settlement, recordation fees and prorated taxes are to be paid by Purchaser. Risk of loss shall be upon Purchaser from time of confirmation by the Circuit Court. In the event the tax delinquent property is subject to a Notice of Code Violation under the Virginia Uniform Statewide Building Code, city zoning codes or environmental codes, the high bidder shall be required to submit a written work schedule and plan to abate all code violations which shall be approved by the appropriate department, in its sole discretion. The acceptance of the bid by the Special Commissioner shall not be construed as limiting any powers vested in the City. Additional terms may be announced at the time of sale. The successful bid is subject to confirmation by the aforementioned Circuit Court pursuant to Section 58.1-3969 of the Code of Virginia. Settlement shall occur at the time of the confirmation by the Circuit Court, TIME BEING OF THE ESSENCE; otherwise, the Special Commissioner may require the Purchaser to forfeit the deposit and seek other legal or equitable rights against the defaulting Purchaser, including costs of resale and any deficiency resulting from resale.

Gregory A. Lukanuski Special Commissioner For More Information Contact: Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. 900 East Broad St, Rm 400 Richmond, VA 23219 (804) 646-7940 Tim Dudley Motley’s Asset Disposition Group 3600 Deepwater Terminal Road Richmond, Virginia 23234 (804) 232-3300

abate all code violations which shall be approved by the appropriate department, in its sole discretion. The acceptance of the bid by the Special Commissioner shall not be construed as limiting any powers vested in the City. Additional terms may be announced at the time of sale. The successful bid is subject to confirmation by the aforementioned Circuit Court pursuant to Section 58.1-3969 of the Code of Virginia. Settlement shall occur at the time of the confirmation by the Circuit Court, TIME BEING OF THE ESSENCE; otherwise, the Special Commissioner may require the Purchaser to forfeit the deposit and seek other legal or equitable rights against the defaulting Purchaser, including costs of resale and any deficiency resulting from resale.

Gregory A. Lukanuski Special Commissioner For More Information Contact: Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. 900 East Broad St, Rm 400 Richmond, VA 23219 (804) 646-7940 Tim Dudley Motley’s Asset Disposition Group 3600 Deepwater Terminal Road Richmond, Virginia 23234 (804) 232-3300

on January 27, 2017, in the matter City of Richmond v.

CLAYTON INVESTMENT GROUP, L. L. C., A Cancelled Virginia Limited Liability Company, et al., Case No. CL15-2582, a suit for the sale of real estate for delinquent taxes pursuant to Section 58.1-3965, et seq. of the Code of Virginia, the undersigned Special Commissioner will offer for sale at public auction at Motleys Asset Disposition Group, 3600 Deepwater Terminal Road, Richmond, Virginia 23234, on May 17, 2017, at 3:00 p.m., the real estate together with any improvements thereon, known as 1316 North 21ST Street, Richmond, Virginia, and more particularly described in the above mentioned court file.

TERMS OF SALE: ALL CASH. A bidder’s deposit of $2,500.00 or 20% of the purchase price, whichever is greater, will be required in cash, certified check or such other form as the Special Commissioner may in his sole discretion determine. A buyer’s premium of 10% of the successful bid will be added to equal total purchase price.

All bidders shall be required to certify by affidavit that they do not own, either directly or indirectly, any real estate with outstanding Notices of Code Violations under local environmental, zoning and building code law, or delinquent real estate taxes, other taxes or any other finance related matter related to the City of Richmond. The property is being sold “AS IS” without any representations or warranties, subject to the rights of any person in possession and to all easements, liens, covenants, defects, encumbrances, adverse claims, conditions and restrictions, whether filed or inchoate, to include any information a survey or inspection of the property may disclose.

Conveyance will be made by either a Special Commissioner’s Deed and/or a Special Warranty deed, with adjustment of real estate property taxes made as of the date of confirmation of the sale. All settlement, recordation fees and prorated taxes are to be paid by Purchaser. Risk of loss shall be upon Purchaser from time of confirmation by the Circuit Court. In the event the tax delinquent property is subject to a Notice of Code Violation under the Virginia Uniform Statewide Building Code, city zoning codes or environmental codes, the high bidder shall be required to submit a written work schedule and plan to abate all code violations which shall be approved by the appropriate department, in its sole discretion. The acceptance of the bid by the Special Commissioner shall not be construed as limiting any powers vested in the City. Additional terms may be announced at the time of sale. The successful bid is subject to confirmation by the aforementioned Circuit Court pursuant to Section 58.1-3969 of the Code of Virginia. Settlement shall occur at the time of the confirmation by the Circuit Court, TIME BEING OF THE ESSENCE; otherwise, the Special Commissioner may require the Purchaser to forfeit the deposit and seek other legal or equitable rights against the defaulting Purchaser, including costs of resale and any deficiency resulting from resale.

Gregory A. Lukanuski Special Commissioner For More Information Contact: Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. 900 East Broad St, Rm 400 Richmond, VA 23219 (804) 646-7940 Tim Dudley Motley’s Asset Disposition Group 3600 Deepwater Terminal Road Richmond, Virginia 23234 (804) 232-3300

ranties, subject to the rights of any person in possession and to all easements, liens, covenants, defects, encumbrances, adverse claims, conditions and restrictions, whether filed or inchoate, to include any information a survey or inspection of the property may disclose.

Conveyance will be made by either a Special Commissioner’s Deed and/or a Special Warranty deed, with adjustment of real estate property taxes made as of the date of confirmation of the sale. All settlement, recordation fees and prorated taxes are to be paid by Purchaser. Risk of loss shall be upon Purchaser from time of confirmation by the Circuit Court. In the event the tax delinquent property is subject to a Notice of Code Violation under the Virginia Uniform Statewide Building Code, city zoning codes or environmental codes, the high bidder shall be required to submit a written work schedule and plan to abate all code violations which shall be approved by the appropriate department, in its sole discretion. The acceptance of the bid by the Special Commissioner shall not be construed as limiting any powers vested in the City. Additional terms may be announced at the time of sale. The successful bid is subject to confirmation by the aforementioned Circuit Court pursuant to Section 58.1-3969 of the Code of Virginia. Settlement shall occur at the time of the confirmation by the Circuit Court, TIME BEING OF THE ESSENCE; otherwise, the Special Commissioner may require the Purchaser to forfeit the deposit and seek other legal or equitable rights against the defaulting Purchaser, including costs of resale and any deficiency resulting from resale.

Gregory A. Lukanuski Special Commissioner For More Information Contact: Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. 900 East Broad St, Rm 400 Richmond, VA 23219 (804) 646-7940 Tim Dudley Motley’s Asset Disposition Group 3600 Deepwater Terminal Road Richmond, Virginia 23234 (804) 232-3300

to forfeit the deposit and seek other legal or equitable rights against the defaulting Purchaser, including costs of resale and any deficiency resulting from resale.

Gregory A. Lukanuski Special Commissioner For More Information Contact: Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. 900 East Broad St, Rm 400 Richmond, VA 23219 (804) 646-7940 Tim Dudley Motley’s Asset Disposition Group 3600 Deepwater Terminal Road Richmond, Virginia 23234 (804) 232-3300

TERMS OF SALE: ALL CASH. A bidder’s deposit of $2,500.00 or 20% of the purchase price, whichever is greater, will be required in cash, certified check or such other form as the Special Commissioner may in his sole discretion determine. A buyer’s premium of 10% of the successful bid will be added to equal total purchase price.

All bidders shall be required to certify by affidavit that they do not own, either directly or indirectly, any real estate with outstanding Notices of Code Violations under local environmental, zoning and building code law, or delinquent real estate taxes, other taxes or any other finance related matter related to the City of Richmond. The property is being sold “AS IS” without any representations or warranties, subject to the rights of any person in possession and to all easements, liens, covenants, defects, encumbrances, adverse claims, conditions and restrictions, whether filed or inchoate, to include any information a survey or inspection of the property may disclose.

Conveyance will be made by either a Special Commissioner’s Deed and/or a Special Warranty deed, with adjustment of real estate property taxes made as of the date of confirmation of the sale. All settlement, recordation fees and prorated taxes are to be paid by Purchaser. Risk of loss shall be upon Purchaser from time of confirmation by the Circuit Court. In the event the tax delinquent property is subject to a Notice of Code Violation under the Virginia Uniform Statewide Building Code, city zoning codes or environmental codes, the high bidder shall be required to submit a written work schedule and plan to abate all code violations which shall be approved by the appropriate department, in its sole discretion. The acceptance of the bid by the Special Commissioner shall not be construed as limiting any powers vested in the City. Additional terms may be announced at the time of sale. The successful bid is subject to confirmation by the aforementioned Circuit Court pursuant to Section 58.1-3969 of the Code of Virginia. Settlement shall occur at the time of the confirmation by the Circuit Court, TIME BEING OF THE ESSENCE; otherwise, the Special Commissioner may require the Purchaser to forfeit the deposit and seek other legal or equitable rights against the defaulting Purchaser, including costs of resale and any deficiency resulting from resale.

Gregory A. Lukanuski Special Commissioner For More Information Contact: Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. 900 East Broad St, Rm 400 Richmond, VA 23219 (804) 646-7940 Tim Dudley Motley’s Asset Disposition Group 3600 Deepwater Terminal Road Richmond, Virginia 23234 (804) 232-3300

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND John Marshall Courts Building CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v.

Case No.: CL17-1356 ANTHONY H. PLUNKETT, JR., DECEASED, et al., Defendants.

AMENDED ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 1207 Ashley Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number E0100163/004 to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, ANTHONY H. PLUNKETT, JR.

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

IT IS ORDERED that ANTHONY H. PLUNKETT, JR., DECEASED, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before MAY 25, 2017, and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

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

Case No.: CL17-764 CHARLIE TAYLOR, DECEASED, Defendants.

ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 1310 North 23rd Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number E0000616/006, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, CHARLIE TAYLOR, DECEASED, and DAVID GAINYARD, DECEASED.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owners, CHARLIE TAYLOR, DECEASED, and DAVID GAINYARD, DECEASED, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; that JANET LYNN BRAY p/k/a JANET DAVIS p/k/a JANET G. GILLIAM, who may have an ownership interest in said property, who has been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to his/ her last known address, has not been personally located and has not filed a response to this action; and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.”

IT IS ORDERED that CHARLIE TAYLOR, D E C E A S E D , D AV I D GAINYARD, DECEASED, JANET LYNN BRAY p/k/a JANET DAVIS p/k/a JANET G. GILLIAM, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before JUNE 22, 2017, and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

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

Case No.: CL17-1620 JOSEPH A. CARTER, JR. DECEASED, et al., Continued on next column

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

Case No.: CL17-1458 LEON MORRIS, et al., Defendants.

ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 514 North 26th Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number E0000383/004, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, LEON MORRIS, as to a life estate and LILLIAN M. LEWIS, as to a life estate.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owners, LEON MORRIS, as to a life estate and LILLIAN M. LEWIS, as to a life estate, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; that R. K. KENNEY, Jr., a/k/a ROBERT J. KENNEY, Jr., who may have an ownership interest said property, has not been located and has not filed a response to this action; and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.”

IT IS ORDERED that LEON MORRIS, as to a life estate, LILLIAN M. LEWIS, as to a life estate, R. K. KENNEY, Jr., a/k/a ROBERT J. KENNEY, Jr., and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before JUNE 22, 2017, and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond, Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7940 COMMISSIONER’S SALE OF 522 Chimborazo Boulevard, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA E000-0883/002

Pursuant to an Order of Sale entered in the Circuit Court of the City of Richmond on February 24, 2017, in the matter City of Richmond v.

Next Call, LLC, a/k/a Next Call a Virginia LLC, A Purged Virginia Limited liability Company, Case No. CL16-5550, a suit for the sale of real estate for delinquent taxes pursuant to Section 58.1-3965, et seq. of the Code of Virginia, the undersigned Special Commissioner will offer for sale at public auction at Motleys Asset Disposition Group, 3600 Deepwater Terminal Road, Richmond, Virginia 23234, on May 17, 2017, at 3:00 p.m., the real estate together with any improvements thereon, known as 522 Chimborazo Boulevard, Richmond, Virginia, and more particularly described in the above mentioned court file.

TERMS OF SALE: ALL CASH. A bidder’s deposit of $2,500.00 or 20% of the purchase price, whichever is greater, will be required in cash, certified check or such other form as the Special Commissioner may in his sole discretion determine. A Continued on next column

COMMISSIONER’S SALE OF 814 Norton Street, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA N000-0572/012

Pursuant to an Order of Sale entered in the Circuit Court of the City of Richmond on February 24, 2017, in the matter City of Richmond v. MIDATLANTIC PROPERTIES, INC., a/k/a MID ATLANTIC PROPERTIES, INC, Case Number: CL16-2320, A Terminated Virginia Corporation, et al., a suit for the sale of real estate for delinquent taxes pursuant to Section 58.1-3965, et seq. of the Code of Virginia, the undersigned Special Commissioner will offer for sale at public auction at Motleys Asset Disposition Group, 3600 Deepwater Terminal Road, Richmond, Virginia 23234, on May 17, 2017, at 3:00 p.m., the real estate together with any improvements thereon, known as 814 NORTON STREET, Richmond, Virginia, and more particularly described in the above mentioned court file.

TERMS OF SALE: ALL CASH. A bidder’s deposit of $2,500.00 or 20% of the purchase price, whichever is greater, will be required in cash, certified check or such other form as the Special Commissioner may in his sole discretion determine. A buyer’s premium of 10% of the successful bid will be added to equal total purchase price.

All bidders shall be required to certify by affidavit that they do not own, either directly or indirectly, any real estate with outstanding Notices of Code Violations under local environmental, zoning and building code law, or delinquent real estate taxes, other taxes or any other finance related matter related to the City of Richmond. The property is being sold “AS IS” without any representations or warranties, subject to the rights of any person in possession and to all easements, liens, covenants, defects, encumbrances, adverse claims, conditions and restrictions, whether filed or inchoate, to include any information a survey or inspection of the property may disclose.

Conveyance will be made by either a Special Commissioner’s Deed and/or a Special Warranty deed, with adjustment of real estate property taxes made as of the date of confirmation of the sale. All settlement, recordation fees and prorated taxes are to be paid by Purchaser. Risk of loss shall be upon Purchaser from time of confirmation by the Circuit Court. In the event the tax delinquent property is subject to a Notice of Code Violation under the Virginia Uniform Statewide Building Code, city zoning codes or environmental codes, the high bidder shall be required to submit a written work schedule and plan to Continued on next column

COMMISSIONER’S SALE OF 1016 NORTH 32ND STREET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA E000-0723/034

Pursuant to an Order of Sale entered in the Circuit Court of the City of Richmond on February 24, 2017, in the matter City of Richmond v.

Clayton Investment Group, L.L.C., a Cancelled Virginia Limited Liability Company, et al., Case Number: CL153219, a suit for the sale of real estate for delinquent taxes pursuant to Section 58.1-3965, et seq. of the Code of Virginia, the undersigned Special Commissioner will offer for sale at public auction at Motleys Asset Disposition Group, 3600 Deepwater Terminal Road, Richmond, Virginia 23234, on May 17, 2017, at 3:00 p.m., the real estate together with any improvements thereon, known as 1016 North 32nd Street, Richmond, Virginia, and more particularly described in the above mentioned court file.

TERMS OF SALE: ALL CASH. A bidder’s deposit of $2,500.00 or 20% of the purchase price, whichever is greater, will be required in cash, certified check or such other form as the Special Commissioner may in his sole discretion determine. A buyer’s premium of 10% of the successful bid will be added to equal total purchase price.

All bidders shall be required to certify by affidavit that they do not own, either directly or indirectly, any real estate with outstanding Notices of Code Violations under local environmental, zoning and building code law, or delinquent real estate taxes, other taxes or any other finance related matter related to the City of Richmond. The property is being sold “AS IS” without any representations or warranties, subject to the rights of any person in possession and to all easements, liens, covenants, defects, encumbrances, adverse claims, conditions and restrictions, whether filed or inchoate, to include any information a survey or inspection of the property may disclose.

Conveyance will be made by either a Special Commissioner’s Deed and/or a Special Warranty deed, with adjustment of real estate property taxes made as of the date of confirmation of the sale. All settlement, recordation fees and prorated taxes are to be paid by Purchaser. Risk of loss shall be upon Purchaser from time of confirmation by the Circuit Court. In the event the tax delinquent property is subject to a Notice of Code Violation under the Virginia Uniform Statewide Building Code, city zoning codes or environmental codes, the high bidder shall be required to submit a written work schedule and plan to abate all code violations which shall be approved by the appropriate department, in its sole discretion. The acceptance of the bid by the Special Commissioner shall not be construed as limiting any powers vested in the City. Additional terms may be announced at the time of sale. The successful bid is subject to confirmation by the aforementioned Circuit Court pursuant to Section 58.1-3969 of the Code of Virginia. Settlement shall occur at the time of the confirmation by the Circuit Court, TIME BEING OF THE ESSENCE; otherwise, the Special Commissioner may require the Purchaser to forfeit the deposit and seek other legal or equitable rights against the defaulting Purchaser, including costs of resale and any deficiency resulting from resale.

Gregory A. Lukanuski Special Commissioner For More Information Contact: Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. 900 East Broad St, Rm 400 Richmond, VA 23219 (804) 646-7940 Tim Dudley Motley’s Asset Disposition Group 3600 Deepwater Terminal Road Richmond, Virginia 23234 (804) 232-3300 COMMISSIONER’S SALE OF 1316 North 21ST STREET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA E000-0614/004

Pursuant to an Order of Sale entered in the Circuit Court of the City of Richmond Continued on next column

COMMISSIONER’S SALE OF 1408 WILLIS STREET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA S007-1231/018

Pursuant to an Order of Sale entered in the Circuit Court of the City of Richmond on February 24, 2017, in the matter City of Richmond v.

Robert L. Brown a/k/a Robert L. Brown, Sr., et al., Case Number: CL16-5190, a suit for the sale of real estate for delinquent taxes pursuant to Section 58.1-3965, et seq. of the Code of Virginia, the undersigned Special Commissioner will offer for sale at public auction at Motleys Asset Disposition Group, 3600 Deepwater Terminal Road, Richmond, Virginia 23234, on May 17, 2017, at 3:00 p.m., the real estate together with any improvements thereon, known as 1408 Willis Street, Richmond, Virginia, and more particularly described in the above mentioned court file.

TERMS OF SALE: ALL CASH. A bidder’s deposit of $2,500.00 or 20% of the purchase price, whichever is greater, will be required in cash, certified check or such other form as the Special Commissioner may in his sole discretion determine. A buyer’s premium of 10% of the successful bid will be added to equal total purchase price.

All bidders shall be required to certify by affidavit that they do not own, either directly or indirectly, any real estate with outstanding Notices of Code Violations under local environmental, zoning and building code law, or delinquent real estate taxes, other taxes or any other finance related matter related to the City of Richmond. The property is being sold “AS IS” without any representations or war-

COMMISSIONER’S SALE OF 1428 North 19th Street, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA E000-0771/012

Pursuant to an Order of Sale entered in the Circuit Court of the City of Richmond on February 24, 2017, in the matter City of Richmond v.

OLIVER C. LAWRENCE, et al., Case Number: CL163805, a suit for the sale of real estate for delinquent taxes pursuant to Section 58.1-3965, et seq. of the Code of Virginia, the undersigned Special Commissioner will offer for sale at public auction at Motleys Asset Disposition Group, 3600 Deepwater Terminal Road, Richmond, Virginia 23234, on May 17, 2017, at 3:00 p.m., the real estate together with any improvements thereon, known as 1428 North 19th Street, Richmond, Virginia, and more particularly described in the above mentioned court file.

TERMS OF SALE: ALL CASH. A bidder’s deposit of $2,500.00 or 20% of the purchase price, whichever is greater, will be required in cash, certified check or such other form as the Special Commissioner may in his sole discretion determine. A buyer’s premium of 10% of the successful bid will be added to equal total purchase price.

All bidders shall be required to certify by affidavit that they do not own, either directly or indirectly, any real estate with outstanding Notices of Code Violations under local environmental, zoning and building code law, or delinquent real estate taxes, other taxes or any other finance related matter related to the City of Richmond. The property is being sold “AS IS” without any representations or warranties, subject to the rights of any person in possession and to all easements, liens, covenants, defects, encumbrances, adverse claims, conditions and restrictions, whether filed or inchoate, to include any information a survey or inspection of the property may disclose.

Conveyance will be made by either a Special Commissioner’s Deed and/or a Special Warranty deed, with adjustment of real estate property taxes made as of the date of confirmation of the sale. All settlement, recordation fees and prorated taxes are to be paid by Purchaser. Risk of loss shall be upon Purchaser from time of confirmation by the Circuit Court. In the event the tax delinquent property is subject to a Notice of Code Violation under the Virginia Uniform Statewide Building Code, city zoning codes or environmental codes, the high bidder shall be required to submit a written work schedule and plan to abate all code violations which shall be approved by the appropriate department, in its sole discretion. The acceptance of the bid by the Special Commissioner shall not be construed as limiting any powers vested in the City. Additional terms may be announced at the time of sale. The successful bid is subject to confirmation by the aforementioned Circuit Court pursuant to Section 58.1-3969 of the Code of Virginia. Settlement shall occur at the time of the confirmation by the Circuit Court, TIME BEING OF THE ESSENCE; otherwise, the Special Commissioner may require the Purchaser

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COMMISSIONER’S SALE OF 1432 North 19th Street, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA E000-0771/032

Pursuant to an Order of Sale entered in the Circuit Court of the City of Richmond on May 27, 2017, in the matter City of Richmond v.

Oliver C. Lawrence, et al., Case Number: CL16-3807, a suit for the sale of real estate for delinquent taxes pursuant to Section 58.13965, et seq. of the Code of Virginia, the undersigned Special Commissioner will offer for sale at public auction at Motleys Asset Disposition Group, 3600 Deepwater Terminal Road, Richmond, Virginia 23234, on May 17, 2017, at 3:00 p.m., the real estate together with any improvements thereon, known as 1432 North 19th Street, Richmond, Virginia, and more particularly described in the above mentioned court file.

TERMS OF SALE: ALL CASH. A bidder’s deposit of $2,500.00 or 20% of the purchase price, whichever is greater, will be required in cash, certified check or such other form as the Special Commissioner may in his sole discretion determine. A buyer’s premium of 10% of the successful bid will be added to equal total purchase price.

All bidders shall be required to certify by affidavit that they do not own, either directly or indirectly, any real estate with outstanding Notices of Code Violations under local environmental, zoning and building code law, or delinquent real estate taxes, other taxes or any other finance related matter related to the City of Richmond. The property is being sold “AS IS” without any representations or warranties, subject to the rights of any person in possession and to all easements, liens, covenants, defects, encumbrances, adverse claims, conditions and restrictions, whether filed or inchoate, to include any information a survey or inspection of the property may disclose.

Conveyance will be made by either a Special Commissioner’s Deed and/or a Special Warranty deed, with adjustment of real estate property taxes made as of the date of confirmation of the sale. All settlement, recordation fees and prorated taxes are to be paid by Purchaser. Risk of loss shall be upon Purchaser from time of confirmation by the Circuit Court. In the event the tax delinquent property is subject to a Notice of Code Violation under the Virginia Uniform Statewide Building Code, city zoning codes or environmental codes, the high bidder shall be required to submit a written work schedule and plan to abate all code violations which shall be approved by the appropriate department, in its sole discretion. The acceptance of the bid by the Special Commissioner shall not be construed as limiting any powers vested in the City. Additional terms may be announced at the time of sale. The successful bid is subject to confirmation by the aforementioned Circuit Court pursuant to Section 58.1-3969 of the Code of Virginia. Settlement shall occur at the time of the confirmation by the Circuit Court, TIME BEING OF THE ESSENCE; otherwise, the Special Commissioner may require the Purchaser to forfeit the deposit and seek other legal or equitable rights against the defaulting Purchaser, including costs of resale and any deficiency resulting from resale.

Gregory A. Lukanuski Special Commissioner For More Information Contact: Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. 900 East Broad St, Rm 400 Richmond, VA 23219 (804) 646-7940 Tim Dudley Motley’s Asset Disposition Group 3600 Deepwater Terminal Road Richmond, Virginia 23234 (804) 232-3300 COMMISSIONER’S SALE OF 1832 Keswick Avenue, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA S007-1032/002

Pursuant to an Order of Sale entered in the Circuit Court of the City of Richmond on February 24, 2017, in the matter City of Richmond v.

Tower Building Properties, L.L.C., a Cancelled Virginia Limited Liability Company, et al., Case No. CL15-3124, a suit for the sale of real estate for delinquent taxes pursuant to Section 58.13965, et seq. of the Code of Virginia, the undersigned Special Commissioner will offer for sale at public auction at Motleys Asset Disposition Group, 3600 Deepwater Terminal Road, Richmond, Virginia 23234, on May 17, 2017, at 3:00 p.m., the real estate together with any improvements thereon, known as 1832 Keswick Avenue, Richmond, Virginia, and more particularly described in the above mentioned court file.

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COMMISSIONER’S SALE OF 2108 2nd Avenue, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA N000-0556/005

Pursuant to an Order of Sale entered in the Circuit Court of the City of Richmond on February 24, 2017, in the matter City of Richmond v. The Tax Title Company of Richmond, A Dissolved Virginia Corporation, et al., Case No. CL13-5437-1, a suit for the sale of real estate for delinquent taxes pursuant to Section 58.1-3965, et seq. of the Code of Virginia, the undersigned Special Commissioner will offer for sale at public auction at Motleys Asset Disposition Group, 3600 Deepwater Terminal Road, Richmond, Virginia 23234, on May 17, 2017, at 3:00 p.m., the real estate together with any improvements thereon, known as 2108 2nd Avenue, Richmond, Virginia, and more particularly described in the above mentioned court file.

TERMS OF SALE: ALL CASH. A bidder’s deposit of $2,500.00 or 20% of the purchase price, whichever is greater, will be required in cash, certified check or such other form as the Special Commissioner may in his sole discretion determine. A buyer’s premium of 10% of the successful bid will be added to equal total purchase price.

All bidders shall be required to certify by affidavit that they do not own, either directly or indirectly, any real estate with outstanding Notices of Code Violations under local environmental, zoning and building code law, or delinquent real estate taxes, other taxes or any other finance related matter related to the City of Richmond. The property is being sold “AS IS” without any representations or warranties, subject to the rights of any person in possession and to all easements, liens, covenants, defects, encumbrances, adverse claims, conditions and restrictions, whether filed or inchoate, to include any information a survey or inspection of the property may disclose.

Conveyance will be made by either a Special Commissioner’s Deed and/or a Special Warranty deed, with adjustment of real estate property taxes made as of the date of confirmation of the sale. All settlement, recordation fees and prorated taxes are to be paid by Purchaser. Risk of loss shall be upon Purchaser from time of confirmation by the Circuit Court. In the event the tax delinquent property is Continued on next page

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subject to a Notice of Code Violation under the Virginia Uniform Statewide Building Code, city zoning codes or environmental codes, the high bidder shall be required to submit a written work schedule and plan to abate all code violations which shall be approved by the appropriate department, in its sole discretion. The acceptance of the bid by the Special Commissioner shall not be construed as limiting any powers vested in the City. Additional terms may be announced at the time of sale. The successful bid is subject to confirmation by the aforementioned Circuit Court pursuant to Section 58.1-3969 of the Code of Virginia. Settlement shall occur at the time of the confirmation by the Circuit Court, TIME BEING OF THE ESSENCE; otherwise, the Special Commissioner may require the Purchaser to forfeit the deposit and seek other legal or equitable rights against the defaulting Purchaser, including costs of resale and any deficiency resulting from resale.

Gregory A. Lukanuski Special Commissioner For More Information Contact: Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. 900 East Broad St, Rm 400 Richmond, VA 23219 (804) 646-7940 Tim Dudley Motley’s Asset Disposition Group 3600 Deepwater Terminal Road Richmond, Virginia 23234 (804) 232-3300

AVENUE, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA N000-0446/018

Pursuant to an Order of Sale entered in the Circuit Court of the City of Richmond on May 20, 2016 in the matter City of Richmond v. Eddie Ransome, Jr., et al, Case No. CL15-2547-1, a suit for the sale of real estate for delinquent taxes pursuant to Section 58.1-3965, et seq. of the Code of Virginia, the undersigned Special Commissioner will offer for sale at public auction at Motleys Asset Disposition Group, 3600 Deepwater Terminal Road, Richmond, Virginia 23234, on May 17, 2017, at 3:00 p.m., the real estate together with any improvements thereon, known as 2121 Greenwood Avenue, Richmond, Virginia, and more particularly described in the above mentioned court file.

TERMS OF SALE: ALL CASH. A bidder’s deposit of $2,500.00 or 20% of the purchase price, whichever is greater, will be required in cash, certified check or such other form as the Special Commissioner may in his sole discretion determine. A buyer’s premium of 10% of the successful bid will be added to equal total purchase price.

All bidders shall be required to certify by affidavit that they do not own, either directly or indirectly, any real estate with outstanding Notices of Code Violations under local environmental, zoning and building code law, or delinquent real estate taxes, other taxes or any other finance related matter related to the City of Richmond. The property is being sold “AS IS” without any representations or warranties, subject to the rights of any person in possession and to all easements, liens, covenants, defects, encumbrances, adverse claims, conditions and restrictions, whether filed or inchoate, to include any information a survey or inspection of the property may disclose.

Conveyance will be made by either a Special Commissioner’s Deed and/or a Special Warranty deed, with adjustment of real estate property taxes made as of the date of confirmation of the sale. All settlement, recordation fees and prorated taxes are to be paid by Purchaser. Risk of loss shall be upon Purchaser from time of confirmation by the Circuit Court. In the event the tax delinquent property is subject to a Notice of Code Violation under the Virginia Uniform Statewide Building Code, city zoning codes or environmental codes, the high bidder shall be required to submit a written work schedule and plan to abate all code violations which shall be approved by the appropriate department, in its sole discretion.

The acceptance of the bid by the Special Commissioner shall not be construed as limiting any powers vested in the City. Additional terms may be announced at the time of sale. The successful bid is subject to confirmation by the aforementioned Circuit Court pursuant to Section 58.1-3969 of the Code of Virginia. Settlement shall occur at the time of the confirmation by the Circuit Court, TIME BEING OF THE ESSENCE; otherwise, the Special Commissioner may require the Purchaser to forfeit the deposit and seek other legal or equitable rights against the defaulting Purchaser, including costs of resale and any deficiency resulting from resale.

Gregory A. Lukanuski Special Commissioner For More Information Contact: Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. 900 East Broad St, Rm 400 Richmond, VA 23219 (804) 646-7940 Tim Dudley Motley’s Asset Disposition Group 3600 Deepwater Terminal Road Richmond, Virginia 23234 (804) 232-3300

or any other finance related matter related to the City of Richmond. The property is being sold “AS IS” without any representations or warranties, subject to the rights of any person in possession and to all easements, liens, covenants, defects, encumbrances, adverse claims, conditions and restrictions, whether filed or inchoate, to include any information a survey or inspection of the property may disclose.

Conveyance will be made by either a Special Commissioner’s Deed and/or a Special Warranty deed, with adjustment of real estate property taxes made as of the date of confirmation of the sale. All settlement, recordation fees and prorated taxes are to be paid by Purchaser. Risk of loss shall be upon Purchaser from time of confirmation by the Circuit Court. In the event the tax delinquent property is subject to a Notice of Code Violation under the Virginia Uniform Statewide Building Code, city zoning codes or environmental codes, the high bidder shall be required to submit a written work schedule and plan to abate all code violations which shall be approved by the appropriate department, in its sole discretion. The acceptance of the bid by the Special Commissioner shall not be construed as limiting any powers vested in the City. Additional terms may be announced at the time of sale. The successful bid is subject to confirmation by the aforementioned Circuit Court pursuant to Section 58.1-3969 of the Code of Virginia. Settlement shall occur at the time of the confirmation by the Circuit Court, TIME BEING OF THE ESSENCE; otherwise, the Special Commissioner may require the Purchaser to forfeit the deposit and seek other legal or equitable rights against the defaulting Purchaser, including costs of resale and any deficiency resulting from resale.

Gregory A. Lukanuski Special Commissioner For More Information Contact: Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. 900 East Broad St, Rm 400 Richmond, VA 23219 (804) 646-7940 Tim Dudley Motley’s Asset Disposition Group 3600 Deepwater Terminal Road Richmond, Virginia 23234 (804) 232-3300

of the Code of Virginia. Settlement shall occur at the time of the confirmation by the Circuit Court, TIME BEING OF THE ESSENCE; otherwise, the Special Commissioner may require the Purchaser to forfeit the deposit and seek other legal or equitable rights against the defaulting Purchaser, including costs of resale and any deficiency resulting from resale.

Gregory A. Lukanuski Special Commissioner For More Information Contact: Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. 900 East Broad St, Rm 400 Richmond, VA 23219 (804) 646-7940 Tim Dudley Motley’s Asset Disposition Group 3600 Deepwater Terminal Road Richmond, Virginia 23234 (804) 232-3300

Asset Disposition Group, 3600 Deepwater Terminal Road, Richmond, Virginia 23234, on May 17, 2017, at 3:00 p.m., the real estate together with any improvements thereon, known as 3402 3RD AVENUE, Richmond, Virginia, and more particularly described in the above mentioned court file.

TERMS OF SALE: ALL CASH. A bidder’s deposit of $2,500.00 or 20% of the purchase price, whichever is greater, will be required in cash, certified check or such other form as the Special Commissioner may in his sole discretion determine. A buyer’s premium of 10% of the successful bid will be added to equal total purchase price.

All bidders shall be required to certify by affidavit that they do not own, either directly or indirectly, any real estate with outstanding Notices of Code Violations under local environmental, zoning and building code law, or delinquent real estate taxes, other taxes or any other finance related matter related to the City of Richmond. The property is being sold “AS IS” without any representations or warranties, subject to the rights of any person in possession and to all easements, liens, covenants, defects, encumbrances, adverse claims, conditions and restrictions, whether filed or inchoate, to include any information a survey or inspection of the property may disclose.

Conveyance will be made by either a Special Commissioner’s Deed and/or a Special Warranty deed, with adjustment of real estate property taxes made as of the date of confirmation of the sale. All settlement, recordation fees and prorated taxes are to be paid by Purchaser. Risk of loss shall be upon Purchaser from time of confirmation by the Circuit Court. In the event the tax delinquent property is subject to a Notice of Code Violation under the Virginia Uniform Statewide Building Code, city zoning codes or environmental codes, the high bidder shall be required to submit a written work schedule and plan to abate all code violations which shall be approved by the appropriate department, in its sole discretion. The acceptance of the bid by the Special Commissioner shall not be construed as limiting any powers vested in the City. Additional terms may be announced at the time of sale. The successful bid is subject to confirmation by the aforementioned Circuit Court pursuant to Section 58.1-3969 of the Code of Virginia. Settlement shall occur at the time of the confirmation by the Circuit Court, TIME BEING OF THE ESSENCE; otherwise, the Special Commissioner may require the Purchaser to forfeit the deposit and seek other legal or equitable rights against the defaulting Purchaser, including costs of resale and any deficiency resulting from resale.

Gregory A. Lukanuski Special Commissioner For More Information Contact: Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. 900 East Broad St, Rm 400 Richmond, VA 23219 (804) 646-7940 Tim Dudley Motley’s Asset Disposition Group 3600 Deepwater Terminal Road Richmond, Virginia 23234 (804) 232-3300

missioner’s Deed and/or a Special Warranty deed, with adjustment of real estate property taxes made as of the date of confirmation of the sale. All settlement, recordation fees and prorated taxes are to be paid by Purchaser. Risk of loss shall be upon Purchaser from time of confirmation by the Circuit Court. In the event the tax delinquent property is subject to a Notice of Code Violation under the Virginia Uniform Statewide Building Code, city zoning codes or environmental codes, the high bidder shall be required to submit a written work schedule and plan to abate all code violations which shall be approved by the appropriate department, in its sole discretion. The acceptance of the bid by the Special Commissioner shall not be construed as limiting any powers vested in the City. Additional terms may be announced at the time of sale. The successful bid is subject to confirmation by the aforementioned Circuit Court pursuant to Section 58.1-3969 of the Code of Virginia. Settlement shall occur at the time of the confirmation by the Circuit Court, TIME BEING OF THE ESSENCE; otherwise, the Special Commissioner may require the Purchaser to forfeit the deposit and seek other legal or equitable rights against the defaulting Purchaser, including costs of resale and any deficiency resulting from resale.

Gregory A. Lukanuski Special Commissioner For More Information Contact: Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. 900 East Broad St, Rm 400 Richmond, VA 23219 (804) 646-7940 Tim Dudley Motley’s Asset Disposition Group 3600 Deepwater Terminal Road Richmond, Virginia 23234 (804) 232-3300

COMMISSIONER’S SALE OF 2113 WARWICK AVENUE, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA S007-1632/011

Pursuant to an Order of Sale entered in the Circuit Court of the City of Richmond on February 24, 2017, in the matter City of Richmond v.

Mildred B. Smith a/k/a Millie Smith a/k/a Millie Britt Smith, et al., Case Number: CL164506, a suit for the sale of real estate for delinquent taxes pursuant to Section 58.1-3965, et seq. of the Code of Virginia, the undersigned Special Commissioner will offer for sale at public auction at Motleys Asset Disposition Group, 3600 Deepwater Terminal Road, Richmond, Virginia 23234, on May 17, 2017, at 3:00 p.m., the real estate together with any improvements thereon, known as 2113 Warwick Avenue, Richmond, Virginia, and more particularly described in the above mentioned court file.

TERMS OF SALE: ALL CASH. A bidder’s deposit of $2,500.00 or 20% of the purchase price, whichever is greater, will be required in cash, certified check or such other form as the Special Commissioner may in his sole discretion determine. A buyer’s premium of 10% of the successful bid will be added to equal total purchase price.

All bidders shall be required to certify by affidavit that they do not own, either directly or indirectly, any real estate with outstanding Notices of Code Violations under local environmental, zoning and building code law, or delinquent real estate taxes, other taxes or any other finance related matter related to the City of Richmond. The property is being sold “AS IS” without any representations or warranties, subject to the rights of any person in possession and to all easements, liens, covenants, defects, encumbrances, adverse claims, conditions and restrictions, whether filed or inchoate, to include any information a survey or inspection of the property may disclose.

Conveyance will be made by either a Special Commissioner’s Deed and/or a Special Warranty deed, with adjustment of real estate property taxes made as of the date of confirmation of the sale. All settlement, recordation fees and prorated taxes are to be paid by Purchaser. Risk of loss shall be upon Purchaser from time of confirmation by the Circuit Court. In the event the tax delinquent property is subject to a Notice of Code Violation under the Virginia Uniform Statewide Building Code, city zoning codes or environmental codes, the high bidder shall be required to submit a written work schedule and plan to abate all code violations which shall be approved by the appropriate department, in its sole discretion. The acceptance of the bid by the Special Commissioner shall not be construed as limiting any powers vested in the City. Additional terms may be announced at the time of sale. The successful bid is subject to confirmation by the aforementioned Circuit Court pursuant to Section 58.1-3969 of the Code of Virginia. Settlement shall occur at the time of the confirmation by the Circuit Court, TIME BEING OF THE ESSENCE; otherwise, the Special Commissioner may require the Purchaser to forfeit the deposit and seek other legal or equitable rights against the defaulting Purchaser, including costs of resale and any deficiency resulting from resale.

Gregory A. Lukanuski Special Commissioner For More Information Contact: Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. 900 East Broad St, Rm 400 Richmond, VA 23219 (804) 646-7940 Tim Dudley Motley’s Asset Disposition Group 3600 Deepwater Terminal Road Richmond, Virginia 23234 (804) 232-3300 COMMISSIONER’S SALE OF 2121 GREENWOOD Continued on next column

COMMISSIONER’S SALE OF 2308 Greenwood Avenue, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA N000-0485/001

Pursuant to an Order of Sale entered in the Circuit Court of the City of Richmond on February 24, 2017, in the matter City of Richmond v. L. V. Lawrence As Trustee of the LMT Land Trust, et al., Case Number: CL16-3804, a suit for the sale of real estate for delinquent taxes pursuant to Section 58.1-3965, et seq. of the Code of Virginia, the undersigned Special Commissioner will offer for sale at public auction at Motleys Asset Disposition Group, 3600 Deepwater Terminal Road, Richmond, Virginia 23234, on May 17, 2017, at 3:00 p.m., the real estate together with any improvements thereon, known as 2308 Greenwood Avenue, Richmond, Virginia, and more particularly described in the above mentioned court file.

TERMS OF SALE: ALL CASH. A bidder’s deposit of $2,500.00 or 20% of the purchase price, whichever is greater, will be required in cash, certified check or such other form as the Special Commissioner may in his sole discretion determine. A buyer’s premium of 10% of the successful bid will be added to equal total purchase price.

All bidders shall be required to certify by affidavit that they do not own, either directly or indirectly, any real estate with outstanding Notices of Code Violations under local environmental, zoning and building code law, or delinquent real estate taxes, other taxes

COMMISSIONER’S SALE OF 2416 NORTH AVENUE, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA N000-0539/012

Pursuant to an Order of Sale entered in the Circuit Court of the City of Richmond on January 27, 2017, in the matter City of Richmond v.

ROBERT M. DAVIS a/k/a ROBERT MICHAEL DAVIS, et al., Case No. CL16-4610, a suit for the sale of real estate for delinquent taxes pursuant to Section 58.13965, et seq. of the Code of Virginia, the undersigned Special Commissioner will offer for sale at public auction at Motleys Asset Disposition Group, 3600 Deepwater Terminal Road, Richmond, Virginia 23234, on May 17, 2017, at 3:00 p.m., the real estate together with any improvements thereon, known as 2416 NORTH AVENUE, Richmond, Virginia, and more particularly described in the above mentioned court file.

TERMS OF SALE: ALL CASH. A bidder’s deposit of $2,500.00 or 20% of the purchase price, whichever is greater, will be required in cash, certified check or such other form as the Special Commissioner may in his sole discretion determine. A buyer’s premium of 10% of the successful bid will be added to equal total purchase price.

All bidders shall be required to certify by affidavit that they do not own, either directly or indirectly, any real estate with outstanding Notices of Code Violations under local environmental, zoning and building code law, or delinquent real estate taxes, other taxes or any other finance related matter related to the City of Richmond. The property is being sold “AS IS” without any representations or warranties, subject to the rights of any person in possession and to all easements, liens, covenants, defects, encumbrances, adverse claims, conditions and restrictions, whether filed or inchoate, to include any information a survey or inspection of the property may disclose.

Conveyance will be made by either a Special Commissioner’s Deed and/or a Special Warranty deed, with adjustment of real estate property taxes made as of the date of confirmation of the sale. All settlement, recordation fees and prorated taxes are to be paid by Purchaser. Risk of loss shall be upon Purchaser from time of confirmation by the Circuit Court. In the event the tax delinquent property is subject to a Notice of Code Violation under the Virginia Uniform Statewide Building Code, city zoning codes or environmental codes, the high bidder shall be required to submit a written work schedule and plan to abate all code violations which shall be approved by the appropriate department, in its sole discretion. The acceptance of the bid by the Special Commissioner shall not be construed as limiting any powers vested in the City. Additional terms may be announced at the time of sale. The successful bid is subject to confirmation by the aforementioned Circuit Court pursuant to Section 58.1-3969

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COMMISSIONER’S SALE OF 3316 TERMINAL AVENUE, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA C009-0588/022

Pursuant to an Order of Sale entered in the Circuit Court of the City of Richmond on February 24, 2017, in the matter City of Richmond v.

Youner V. McLeod, et al., Case No. CL16-2730-4, a suit for the sale of real estate for delinquent taxes pursuant to Section 58.1-3965, et seq. of the Code of Virginia, the undersigned Special Commissioner will offer for sale at public auction at Motleys Asset Disposition Group, 3600 Deepwater Terminal Road, Richmond, Virginia 23234, on May 17, 2017, at 3:00 p.m., the real estate together with any improvements thereon, known as 3316 Terminal Avenue, Richmond, Virginia, and more particularly described in the above mentioned court file.

TERMS OF SALE: ALL CASH. A bidder’s deposit of $2,500.00 or 20% of the purchase price, whichever is greater, will be required in cash, certified check or such other form as the Special Commissioner may in his sole discretion determine. A buyer’s premium of 10% of the successful bid will be added to equal total purchase price.

All bidders shall be required to certify by affidavit that they do not own, either directly or indirectly, any real estate with outstanding Notices of Code Violations under local environmental, zoning and building code law, or delinquent real estate taxes, other taxes or any other finance related matter related to the City of Richmond. The property is being sold “AS IS” without any representations or warranties, subject to the rights of any person in possession and to all easements, liens, covenants, defects, encumbrances, adverse claims, conditions and restrictions, whether filed or inchoate, to include any information a survey or inspection of the property may disclose.

Conveyance will be made by either a Special Commissioner’s Deed and/or a Special Warranty deed, with adjustment of real estate property taxes made as of the date of confirmation of the sale. All settlement, recordation fees and prorated taxes are to be paid by Purchaser. Risk of loss shall be upon Purchaser from time of confirmation by the Circuit Court. In the event the tax delinquent property is subject to a Notice of Code Violation under the Virginia Uniform Statewide Building Code, city zoning codes or environmental codes, the high bidder shall be required to submit a written work schedule and plan to abate all code violations which shall be approved by the appropriate department, in its sole discretion. The acceptance of the bid by the Special Commissioner shall not be construed as limiting any powers vested in the City. Additional terms may be announced at the time of sale. The successful bid is subject to confirmation by the aforementioned Circuit Court pursuant to Section 58.1-3969 of the Code of Virginia. Settlement shall occur at the time of the confirmation by the Circuit Court, TIME BEING OF THE ESSENCE; otherwise, the Special Commissioner may require the Purchaser to forfeit the deposit and seek other legal or equitable rights against the defaulting Purchaser, including costs of resale and any deficiency resulting from resale.

Gregory A. Lukanuski Special Commissioner For More Information Contact: Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. 900 East Broad St, Rm 400 Richmond, VA 23219 (804) 646-7940 Tim Dudley Motley’s Asset Disposition Group 3600 Deepwater Terminal Road Richmond, Virginia 23234 (804) 232-3300 COMMISSIONER’S SALE OF 3402 3RD AVENUE, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA N000-1169/014

Pursuant to an Order of Sale entered in the Circuit Court of the City of Richmond on January 27, 2017, in the matter City of Richmond v.

ALFRED J. EVANS a/k/a ALFRED JONES EVANS, Who May Be Deceased, and THE HEIRS, DEVISEES, ASSIGNEES OR SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST OF ALFRED J. EVANS a/k/a ALFRED JONES EVANS, et al., Case No. CL16-4360, a suit for the sale of real estate for delinquent taxes pursuant to Section 58.1-3965, et seq. of the Code of Virginia, the undersigned Special Commissioner will offer for sale at public auction at Motleys Continued on next column

COMMISSIONER’S SALE OF 3508 BRIEL STREET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA E000-1554/020

Pursuant to an Order of Sale entered in the Circuit Court of the City of Richmond on February 24, 2017, in the matter City of Richmond v.

Clayton Investment Group, L.L.C. a Cancelled Virginia Limited Liability Company, et al., Case Number: CL153863, a suit for the sale of real estate for delinquent taxes pursuant to Section 58.1-3965, et seq. of the Code of Virginia, the undersigned Special Commissioner will offer for sale at public auction at Motleys Asset Disposition Group, 3600 Deepwater Terminal Road, Richmond, Virginia 23234, on May 17, 2017, at 3:00 p.m., the real estate together with any improvements thereon, known as 3508 Briel Street, Richmond, Virginia, and more particularly described in the above mentioned court file.

TERMS OF SALE: ALL CASH. A bidder’s deposit of $2,500.00 or 20% of the purchase price, whichever is greater, will be required in cash, certified check or such other form as the Special Commissioner may in his sole discretion determine. A buyer’s premium of 10% of the successful bid will be added to equal total purchase price.

All bidders shall be required to certify by affidavit that they do not own, either directly or indirectly, any real estate with outstanding Notices of Code Violations under local environmental, zoning and building code law, or delinquent real estate taxes, other taxes or any other finance related matter related to the City of Richmond. The property is being sold “AS IS” without any representations or warranties, subject to the rights of any person in possession and to all easements, liens, covenants, defects, encumbrances, adverse claims, conditions and restrictions, whether filed or inchoate, to include any information a survey or inspection of the property may disclose.

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St. Peter Baptist Church Child Development Center is looking for qualified Teachers and Instructional Assistants with previous child care experience and who can be a Christian role model. These positions require multiple responsibilities; For further details contact Mrs. Lavasia Williams at (804) 262-6562.

Assistant Dean School of Humanities and Social Sciences (Position #FA319) (J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College, Richmond, VA) Master’s degree from an accredited institution in a field of study related to or offered by the School of Humanities and Social Sciences. The Assistant Dean provides administrative and operational support to the Dean to ensure the smooth operation of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences by providing academic leadership, management, supervision, strategic planning, and overall coordination to ensure consistency in the delivery of academic services. The Assistant Dean is responsible for managing all student related issues and activities. The selected candidate will be required to complete the Commonwealth’s Statement of Economic Interest, and must be able to successfully pass the college’s pre-employment security screening.

TYPE OF APPOINTMENT: Full-time, twelve-month administrative faculty-ranked appointment. Salary commensurate with the education and experience of the applicant. Salary range: $65,953-$136,233.

Approximate maximum hiring salary: $90,632.

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

Application reviews will begin JUNE 23, 2017.

AA/EOE/ADA/Veterans/ AmeriCorps/Peace Corps/Other National Service Alumni are encouraged to apply.

Bid COUNTY OF HENRICO, VIRGINIA CONSTRUCTION ITB # 17-1386-4JK Short Pump Park Dog Park Synthetic Surfacing Project Due 2:30 pm, May 23, 2017. Additional information available at: http://henrico.us/ finance/divisions/purchasing/

License 3 4 God LLC Trading as: BP Gas Station 9200 Midlothian Tpke N. Chesterfield, Chesterfield, Virginia 23235-4945 The above establishment is applying to the Virginia D epartment of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) for a Wine and Beer Off Premises license to sell or manufacture alcoholic beverages. wael adly, owner NOTE: Objections to the issuance of this license must be submitted to ABC no later than 30 days from the publishing date of the first of two required newspaper legal notices Objections shoud be registered at www.abc.virginia.gov or 800-552-3200.

Churchill Development Corporation Trading as: Mari’s Mini Mart 3400 Q Street, Richmond, VA 23223-7754 The above establishment is applying to the Virginia D epartment of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) for a Wine and Beer Off Premises license to sell or manufacture alcoholic beverages.

Christopher Pleasants Director NOTE: Objections to the issuance of this license must be submitted to ABC no later than 30 days from the publishing date of the first of two required newspaper legal notices Objections shoud be registered at www.abc. virginia.gov or 800-5523200.

REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL The University of Virginia seeks a firm to provide: Athletics Video Analysis To view a copy of RFP # KC050117 go to Procurement Services Site: http://www.procurement. virginia.edu/main/ publicpostings/RFP.html, or email pur-rfp@virginia.edu

The City of Richmond is seeking to fill the following positions: Administrative Project Analyst – Procurement Services 84M00000012 Department of Procurement Apply by 05/14/17 Asset Manager – Technical Services 35M00000579 Department of Public Utilities Apply by 05/14/17 Engineer II – Technical Services 35M00000382 Department of Public Utilities Apply by 05/14/17 Engineer IV – City Bridge 29M00000603 Department of Public Works Continuous Family Services Worker – Child Protective Services 27M00000573 Department of Social Services Apply by 05/14/17 Library Community Services Manager – Westover Hills Branch 03M00000101 Richmond Public Library Apply by 05/14/17 Maintenance Worker I 30M00000161 Department of Parks, Recreation & Community Facilities Apply by 05/14/17 Pipeline Technician I – Gas Maintenance Division 35M00000441 Department of Public Utilities Apply by 05/14/17 Social Services Case Manager – Daycare 27M00000220 Department of Social Services Apply by 05/14/17 System Developer 20M00000027 Department of Information Technology Apply by 05/14/17 Utilities Instrument & Control Technician II 35M00000492 Department of Public Utilities Apply by 05/14/17 ****************** For an exciting career with the City of Richmond, visit our website for additional information and apply today! www.richmondgov.com EOE M/F/D/V

Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation 2019 Commemoration Deputy Director Marketing and Communications The Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation, 2019 Commemoration is seeking a qualified individual to develop and oversee all aspects of marketing, communications and tourism promotion strategy and operations including comprehensive strategic planning and goal achievement resulting in visibility for Virginia in a competitive national marketplace.

This is a restricted position based on non-recurring funding through June 30, 2020.

A completed application, including all previous employment, salary history, and education must be submitted on-line at https:virginiajobs.peopleadmin.com/ for consideration.

Faxed, mailed, or e-mailed applications will not be accepted.

Electronic applications will be accepted until 11:59 p.m. on May 7, 2017. Applicants will only be screened based on what is presented in the Commonwealth of Virginia employment application. Background Check/E-Verify Required.

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