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Locked out Report: Fewer mortgages approved in predominately African-American, Latino areas

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

The greater the number of AfricanAmericans and Latinos living in a Richmond neighborhood, the tougher it is for home buyers in the neighborhood to get a mortgage approved or for existing owners to get their home loans refinanced.

That’s the rule of thumb that prevails among banks and online mortgage lenders, according to a new report from the Richmond-based fair housing watchdog group, Housing Opportunities Made Equal of Virginia.

The report suggests that mortgage lenders, including the five that make the most home loans to city residents, Wells Fargo, SunTrust and Bank of America and online lenders Capital Center and Movement Mortgage, could be flouting federal fair housing laws. Those laws date back nearly 50 years and were put in place to end private and government-enforced housing segregation and longstanding racial disparities in lending.

Lenders deny any return to the practice of redlining or basing lending on where people live. They indicate that credit scores, housing values and other raceneutral factors are at work.

But the HOME report seems to show that racial and ethnic disparities remain a fact of life when it comes to buying or refinancing a home.

“For each percentage point increase in the minority population in a (neighborhood), 12.5 fewer mortgages could expect to be made,” study author Brian Koziol found.

HOME’s findings are based on a review of seven years of reports lenders submitted to the federal government about mortgage applications, approvals and denials that include the race and ethnicity of wouldbe borrowers.

Mr. Koziol also found that for “each

percentage point increase in the number of minority applicants per (neighborhood),” lenders made 46 fewer loans.

The fair housing group reviewed lenders’ Home Mortgage Disclosure Act reports for Jan. 1, 2007, to Dec. 31, 2013. This period largely covers the Great Recession, when the mortgage market collapsed and

more than 4,700 Richmond homes went into foreclosure.

As the report notes, by 2013, lending for homes in Richmond had been cut nearly in half compared to 2007, and denials of loans rose as credit was tightened.

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Volunteer Inez Crews engages the attention and participation of pre-schoolers Tuesday at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Learning Center in the East End as she reads “Pete the Cat: Rocking in My School Shoes.” The book is part of the monthly read aloud and share program sponsored by RVA Reads. Each youngster will get a new book each month to take home and read and share with their families.

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Leonard W. Lambert, longtime Richmond lawyer, dies at 77

By Joey Matthews

“My mother said it was important to be educated and give something back to the church and to the community.”

Leonard W. Lambert Sr. told the Free Press those were the life lessons his mother, Mary Frances Warden Lambert, taught him and his six siblings long before her death in August 2014.

Mr. Lambert took those words to heart in his decades of legal and community service in Richmond and surrounding areas.

He had a longtime law practice, Leonard W. Lambert & Associates, in Church Hill. His daughter, Linda Lambert Anderson, and son, Brice E. Lambert, both practice law with the firm.

He became Richmond’s first African-American judge in 1973 when he was named a substitute judge for the Richmond General District Court, less than a year before now retired Judge Willard H. Douglas Jr. was named to fill Mr. Lambert a vacant seat on the court.

Mr. Lambert is being remembered following his death Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2015, in Richmond. He was 77.

The family was still making funeral arrangements Wednesday evening at the Free Press deadline.

Outpourings of affection and warm recollections were offered by some whose lives Mr. Lambert had deeply touched.

“Leonard was a dear friend and someone I admired as a person and as a lawyer,” said George Keith Martin, managing partner at the Richmond office of McGuireWoods in Downtown. “He was devoted to his family and friends … and was, by nature, an encourager.

“As a lawyer, he was admired by all because of his sharp mind and superior legal skills,” Mr. Martin continued. “He was always very generous with his time. He helped me and countless other lawyers when we were young and trying to establish our careers.

“Leonard was a gem and we were blessed to have him in our lives.”

Judge Roger L. Gregory of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, shared office space with Mr. Lambert in the early 1980s.

“He was a wonderful friend,” Judge Gregory said. “He was always so unselfish in sharing his talents as a lawyer with younger lawyers. I remember him helping me in terms of handling a personal injury matter.

“He comes from a sharing family,” he added. “He was full of life, had a great sense of humor and you never saw him in a bad mood. He always exuded great professionalism. He’s going to be sorely missed in the community.”

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VCU now working on new children’s hospital

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

Virginia Commonwealth University plans to take the lead in developing a new inpatient children’s hospital in Richmond.

After rebuffing a private group’s concept of an independent, freestanding hospital on the Boulevard, VCU is moving to create a plan for a dedicated hospital for children on its medical campus in Downtown.

Within 60 to 90 days, VCU expects to unveil an updated facilities plan for the medical campus that would include a proposed hospital for children to complement the expensive children’s outpatient pavilion now under construction at 10th

and Broad streets next to City Hall.

The VCU effort is gaining momentum following the collapse of plans by the Virginia Children’s Hospital Alliance to create a new hospital separate from the existing ones operated by Richmond’s three major hospital systems, HCA, Bon Secours and VCU Health, the medical arm of the university.

“We have heard the community concerns about fragmented pediatric services and the need to pull them together,” said Pam Lepley, VCU spokeswoman. The goal, she said, would be for the new hospital to address such problems and improve cooperation with the pediatric operations of the two other hospital systems.

Among other things, a new hospital would consolidate ser-

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vices spread over at least three buildings on the VCU campus. Currently, the Children’s Hospital of Richmond at VCU has inpatient beds in the Main Hospital and at its Brook Road campus, where children needing longterm rehabilitation are placed.

Ms. Lepley said questions about the size, scope, price tag, location and timetable for the hospital would not be answered until the new plan is unveiled. But she indicated that Ms. Lepley the proposal would not sit on the shelf. It has previously taken VCU four to five years to secure approvals for and to design and build a new hospital.

According to Dr. Bruce K. Rubin, who heads the VCU Pediatric Department and is physician-in-chief for the Children’s Hospital of Richmond at VCU, such a hospital would “leverage the research and educational facilities” on the medical campus while providing “world-class care for young patients.”

Besides the 42 beds in the nursery for newborns, he said that 175 inpatient beds in a modern facility “would be adequate.”

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By Thomas Kidd

Former NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson could not have calculated her trajectory to the White House.

The 97-year-old Newport News resident will be among 17 Americans receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom — the nation’s highest civilian honor — at the White House on Tuesday, Nov. 24.

The Presidential Medal of Freedom is presented to individuals who have made meritorious contributions to U.S. security, national interest, world peace or cultural endeavors.

Mrs. Johnson is being recognized for her pioneering work in America’s aeronautics and space program with the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, the agency that preceded NASA. Her mathematic computations have influenced every major space program — from America’s first manned space flight by Alan Shepard in 1961 to Apollo 11 and Neil Armstrong’s landing on the moon in 1969 and all the way to the Space Shuttle program.

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View of the North Hospital at 1300 E. Marshall St. on the medical the campus of Virginia Commonwealth University.

VCU is now making plans to replace the building, previously known as the E.G. Williams Hospital, that dates to the mid-1950s. This move is revving up the school’s plans to develop an inpatient hospital for children.

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Cityscape Slices of life and scenes in Richmond Lynda Solansky, left, and sculptor Maria J. Kirby-Smith clean the bronze Richmond Police Memorial statue in Nina F. Abady Festival Park beside the Richmond Coliseum.

Ms. Kirby-Smith created the 8½-foot-tall statue that was placed in 1987 and pays homage to city police officers and the 28 killed in the line of duty between 1869 and 2003. A private foundation paid for the statue that depicts an officer carrying a child down steps. The artist and her friend drove up from South Carolina to wash and wax the statue Tuesday, possibly the statue’s first cleaning since it was dedicated 28 years ago.

The cleaning was done ahead of a wreath-laying ceremony that Mayor Dwight C. Jones will lead Tuesday, Nov. 24, according to retired Officer Glenwood W. Burley, the statue’s protector. He’s now leading a push to win city approval to move the statue from its home on the 7th Street side of the park to The Carillon area of Byrd Park.

The Carillon Civic Association, which represents people living next to the park, has publicly expressed opposition, arguing the statue would be out of place and urging city leaders to find a more suitable location.

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Kandise Lucas, an advocate for special needs children in the Richmond area, has been convicted of trespassing at Meadowbrook High School in a case testing Chesterfield County’s authority to issue and enforce such a ban.

Chesterfield County General District Court Judge Pamela O’Berry on Tuesday found Ms. Lucas guilty of trespassing at the high school on April 29.

After a three-hour hearing, Ms. Lucas was sentenced to 90 days in jail, with all the time suspended and fined $150 plus $87 in court costs.

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She will be allowed to remain free on her own recognizance, without having to post bond, during the appeal.

Her attorney, Joseph D. “Joe” MorrisMs. Lucas sey, argued that Ms. Lucas had the right to be at the school based on federal and state law and policies protecting advocates.

Ms. Lucas had gone to Meadowbrook at the invitation of a parent who sought her help in dealing with school officials who were working on an individual educational program for her child.

Ms. Lucas had attended two earlier meetings with the parent.

Mr. Morrissey said the county school system issued the trespass ban and had Ms. Lucas arrested after she filed complaints with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights and the Justice Department over the handling of the case.

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The conviction does not let Chesterfield County off the hook.

On Nov. 12, the Office for Civil Rights notified Ms. Lucas that an attorney and investigator had been assigned to look into her complaint against the county.

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Voting opens Thursday for Brown Middle School to win STEM lab Help Lucille Brown Middle School win a state-of the-art lab for STEM subjects, science, technology, engineering and math.

That’s the appeal the Richmond school and its supporters are issuing to the community as the school competes for a $100,000 grant from the Northrop Grumman Foundation to install a lab that would give Brown Middle students access to the latest learning tools and technologies.

The middle school is one of 20 semifinalists vying for five grants from the charity arm of the technology and weapon systems company and the only Richmond area school on the list.

Now the foundation is asking the public to help make the selection for the most deserving schools by voting this week on Facebook for their choices.

Voting for Brown Middle is set to take place Thursday, Nov. 19, with ballots of support cast at www.facebook.com/ FabSchoolLabs/.

Residents can vote on their own computer or go to Chippenham or Johnston-Willis hospitals, which both plan to set up voting stations in their respective lobbies for staff, patients and anyone else who wants to participate.

Brown Middle was one of nearly 200 schools to enter the competition. The school was selected as a semifinalist based on its entry submission, which included a video created

by Dana Newcomer, an engineering teacher who was the 2011 Teacher of the Year for the Virginia Technology and Engineering Education Association and the 2012 recipient of the Teaching Excellence Award from the International Technology and Engineering Education Association.

Four other Virginia schools also are in the competition, including Benjamin Syms Middle, Hampton; Crittenden Middle, Newport News; Princes Anne Middle, Virginia Beach; and Herndon Middle, Fairfax County.

For more information: www.fabschoollabs.com. — JEREMY M. LAZARUS

Leonard W. Lambert dies at 77 Continued from A1

Dr. Elwood B. Boone Jr., who said he has known Mr. Lambert for 40 years, described him as jovial and good-hearted with positive things to say about most people and things.

“At the same time, he tended to business,” Dr. Boone said.

Mr. Lambert and Dr. Boone worked closely as board members of Paradigm Communications Inc., the parent company of the Richmond Free Press. Dr. Boone serves as board chairman; Mr. Lambert was treasurer of the board at the time of his death.

“Lambert was a stalwart believer in the Free Press mission,” Dr. Boone said. “And as one of the original investors in Paradigm and as a board member, he served diligently.

His services will be surely missed. My condolences go out to his family.”

Mr. Lambert was born Oct. 27, 1938, into what would become one of Richmond’s best known and accomplished families.

At age 12, Mr. Lambert, like his siblings, began working for the successful Lambert Catering that was owned and operated by his parents, Frances and Benjamin J. Lambert Jr. From his work with the family

business, he learned the value of education, hard work and service to the community.

He graduated from Virginia Randolph High School in Henrico County, then from Virginia Union University. That’s where he met his wife of 52 years, Sylvia J. Lambert, when they were students.

He later earned his law degree from the Howard University School of Law. Mr. Lambert recently was honored for 50 years of membership in the Virginia Bar Association.

He also was a longtime member at Westwood Baptist Church in the West End, where he served as treasurer.

Mr. Lambert also was active in numerous social and civic groups, including the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Alpha Beta Boulé of Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity and The Guardsmen.

In addition to his wife, Mr. Lambert is survived by four children, Linda L. Anderson, Brice E. Lambert, Leonard W. Lambert Jr. and Mark E. Lambert; two sisters, Dr. Elizabeth L. Johns of Alexandria and Dr. Anne L. Johnson of Overland Park, Kan.; two brothers, John A. Lambert Sr. and Richard A. Lambert Sr., both of Richmond; five grandchildren and numerous other family and friends.

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Ms. Lepley said the plan being developed also would tie in modern clinical space for children and adult patients of the Massey Cancer Center and Pauley Heart Center.

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The North Hospital, at 1300 E. Marshall St., sits east of the Main Hospital and is linked into the headquarters of the Massey Cancer Center. The building’s 10 floors are home to inpatient and outpatient services, including VCU’s bone marrow transplant operations, the adult psychiatry program, brain injury rehabilitation services, the Virginia Center for Digestive Health and the clinical operations of the Massey Cancer Center.

Ms. Lepley said that before VCU could tear down and replace that building, the operations in the building would need to be moved temporarily or permanently to other space.

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Feb. 5, 1997, interview. Her calculations, done by hand with pencil and paper, delineated the trajectory needed to get astronauts into space.

But before she was calculating the ascension of men to the stars, she was a star in mathematics in her hometown of White Sulphur Springs, W.Va. At the time, White Sulphur Springs public schools had no school for African-Americans beyond eighth grade. So Mrs. Johnson’s father moved the family so that his four children could complete their education. She graduated summa cum laude in 1937 from West Virginia State College with a degree in mathematics and French and began teaching in the West Virginia school system.

It was only after she and her husband moved to Hampton that she embarked on an illustrious career with NACA. She began her career with Langley Research Center as a pool mathematician with a group segregated both by race and gender. Her talent stood out, and she was “loaned” to the all-male flight research division.

Her knowledge proved to be invaluable and her assertiveness won her a permanent spot in the previously all-male division.

As the space program grew, she transitioned from the Flight Mechanics Branch to the Spacecraft Controls Branch and began calculating flight trajectories for America’s first flights into space.

She has been recognized by the space organization with special achievement awards in 1970, 1980 and 1985. In addition, she has been awarded three honorary degrees from State University of New York (SUNY) in Farmingdale, Capitol Technology University and Old Dominion University.

So what was her reaction to the news this week that she was being invited by President Obama to the White House to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom?

“Very laid back,” her daughter, Joylette Hylick of Mount Laurel, N.J., told the Free Press.

“She usually responds to any accolades with, ‘I was just doing my job. I loved it and I did it well.’ ” Mrs. Johnson, now a grandmother who enjoys visitors at the retirement community where she lives with her husband in Newport News, is not so much focused on receiving the award as she is with the opportunity to bend the president’s ear.

“She’s always wanted to talk with the president about how children are being

Few women, and even fewer African-Americans, worked for NASA when Katherine Johnson started as a pool mathematician at the space agency’s Langley Research Center in Hampton in June 1953.

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educated today, ” added Mrs. Hylick.

Mrs. Johnson retains her passion for learning and is tireless in her efforts to get young people interested in learning — especially in the areas of science and technology.

“She will tutor students today, if they ask her,” Mrs. Hylick said.

Not just an academic, Mrs. Johnson was an avid tennis and golf player during her younger years. Today, she still enjoys getting outside and will entertain any academic conversation.

“She holds court regularly. She loves to engage with people who she can learn something from,” her daughter said.

The world may have an opportunity to learn more about her life as a children’s book and a motion picture biopic are being considered for future release. Casting will begin next year, and Mrs. Johnson and her family are watching with a careful eye how Hollywood portrays the humble scientist.

“We don’t want anything sensationalized because that’s not the type of person she is,” Mrs. Hylick said.

Other Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients: Yogi Berra (posthumous), who spent 40 years as a professional baseball catcher, manager and coach.

Bonnie Carroll, a retired major in the Air Force Reserve, who founded TAPS, Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors, to support families impacted by the death of their loved one serving in the military.

Shirley Chisholm (posthumous), who made history in 1968 by becoming the first AfricanAmerican woman elected to Congress, beginning the first of seven terms in the House of Representatives. She made history again in 1972 by becoming the first African-American woman to seek the presidential nomination as a major party candidate.

Emilio Estefan, a music producer, entrepreneur, author and songwriter who has won 19 Grammy

Awards and influenced a generation of artists.

Gloria Estefan, a singer, songwriter, actor and entrepreneur who introduced Latin music to a global audience.

Billy Frank Jr. (posthumous), a tireless advocate for Indian treaty rights and environmental stewardship.

Lee Hamilton, a former Indiana congressman, who has been influential on international relations and American national security for more than 40 years. After retiring from Congress, he was vice president of the 9/11 Commission and co-chair of the Iraq Study Group. He also has served as co-chair of the Independent Task Force on Immigration and America’s Future.

Willie Mays, a professional baseball player who spent most of his 22 seasons as a center fielder for the New York and San Francisco Giants.

Barbara Mikulski, a U.S. senator from Maryland who has held elected office since 1971.

In 2012, she was the longest serving woman in Congress and the first female senator to chair the Senate Appropriations Committee.

Itzhak Perlman, a renowned violinist, conductor and sought-after teacher who has won four Emmy Awards, 16 Grammy Awards and the 2008 Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.

William Ruckelshaus, a former administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency under Presidents Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan, who worked to protect public health and combat global challenges like climate change.

Stephen Sondheim, one of the nation’s most influential theater composers and lyricists.

Steven Spielberg, noted film director, producer, philanthropist and entrepreneur.

Barbra Streisand, who is acclaimed for singing, acting, directing, producing and songwriting. She has won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony.

James Taylor, a recording and touring artist who has sold more than 100 million albums during the course of his songwriting and performing career.

Minoru Yasui (posthumous), a civil and human rights leader. A graduated of the University of Oregon School of Law, he challenged the constitutionality of a military order during World War II on the grounds of racial discrimination, and spent the rest of his life appealing his wartime conviction.

Report: Fewer mortgages approved in predominately African-American, Latino areas Continued from A1

Mortgage applications dropped from 15,011 in 2007 to 8,470 in 2013, with refinancing applications falling from 25,994 in 2007 to 11,759 in 2013.

Homeownership levels also dropped among all segments of the population, with only 43 percent of residents now being homeowners in Richmond.

But the hammer of tighter credit hit hardest among African-American and Latino residents, who generally have fewer assets and less wealth, HOME found.

As a result, only 36 percent of AfricanAmerican residents in Richmond own homes currently and only 20 percent of Latino residents do, compared with 54 percent of white residents.

So even as the home market began to heal, the HOME report found that “black applicants, regardless of income, were less likely to receive a home purchase loan” or be approved for refinancing.

Most notably, the data shows that 25 percent more African-American applicants of upper income were rejected for mortgages or refinancing than white applicants with upper incomes, Mr. Koziol stated.

While Richmond has a majority-black population, the report found that white borrowers received the lion’s share of home loans in the city, although the denial rate was up for white people as well.

Still, 48 percent of white applicants were approved for new mortgages, while 13 percent were denied. That’s a sharp contrast with black applicants, 26 percent of whom were approved for home loans and 35 percent who were not. On refinancing applications, 40 percent of white owners were approved while 32 percent were denied. By contrast, only 26 percent of black borrowers were approved while 37 percent of black applicants were denied.

“HOME has been very concerned about the shifts in lending away from minority communities in recent years” as documented in the report, said Heather Crislip, president and CEO of the advocacy group that has championed an end to race-based discrimination in housing in the Richmond area since 1971.

“Homeownership is critical for creating stable neighborhoods and building wealth for families,” Ms. Crislip stated.

She expressed hope that the report would bring attention “to the need for greater availability of credit and mortgages to rebuild communities devastated by the foreclosure crisis.”

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“The report does not take into account a number of legitimate, credit-related factors that are part of the lending process,” Wells Fargo spokesman Tom Goyda stated in largely dismissing the report.

“Most notably, when evaluating mortgage denials, the study does not control for an applicant’s ability to repay a loan, as evidenced by documentation of employment, income, assets and past credit performance, as that data is not currently available” in the required reports that Wells Fargo and other lenders submit to meet mandates of the federal Home Mortgage Disclosure Act. The act was passed in 1975 to force lenders to show who got loans and who did not, by race and ethnicity, among other factors.

Mr. Koziol acknowledged that home values in various neighborhoods, as well as the factors Mr. Goyda mentioned, were not taken into account because of a lack of data. He also noted another shortcoming — that his report focused on data for loans on which people self-identified their race or ethnicity. Loans where borrowers did not provide that information account for potentially as much as 65 percent of the loan applications. He also said he did not include reported information on home improvement loans.

For, Mr. Goyda, that’s reason enough to defend Wells Fargo, which he stated was “the top lender in Richmond and nationwide to all racial and ethnic groups, to lowerincome consumers and in lower-income neighborhoods” from 2010 to 2013.

In Richmond during that three-year period, Wells Fargo was involved in 2,218 total loans and approved 546 home mortgage loans, 1,472 home refinance loans, well above its closest rival, SunTrust, which approved 445 home mortgage and 724 refinancing loans during the period, or 1,169.

SunTrust spokesman Michael McCoy also dismissed any suggestion the bank redlines neighborhoods. He stated that SunTrust, like other banks, “is in the business of making loans to qualified borrowers without regard to race, sex or geographic location or any other basis prohibited by applicable law. We are working hard to attract qualified borrowers to help more people achieve the dream of home ownership.”

HOME conducted the study of mortgage lending at the request of City Councilwoman Ellen F. Robertson, who also chairs the board of the city’s Affordable Housing Trust Fund she helped create. She also spent more than 15 years leading a hous-

ing improvement program in the Highland Park community in North Side.

The 6th District representative, Ms. Robertson said she requested the report to get a picture of the market now that a recovery is underway.

Ms. Robertson said the report backs up what she has been hearing about the high level of mortgage rejection for people seeking to buy homes in the predominantly black neighborhoods she represents.

“I think the report indicates a failure on several fronts,” she stated. “The first is the historic and ongoing disinvestment in many of the city’s neighborhoods. Certainly, failure to enforce the Community Reinvestment Act that requires banks to invest in low- to moderate-income areas is part of the story.

“But as is made clear in the report, mortgage lending is lacking in specific neighborhoods for a multitude of reasons: The cycle of redlining, purposeful exclusion, deliberate concentration of poverty, predatory lending, and foreclosures,” she stated.

“The epidemic has created neighborhoods that remain largely undesirable to potential homeowners.”

She said she plans to speak with banking officers to “explore the prospect of targeted banking products and of increase investment in the city’s Affordable Housing Trust Fund.”

HOME also is recommending that more be done to reduce barriers to buyers, including increasing down-payment assistance and expanding financial education and credit counseling to improve borrowers’ chances of qualifying for home loans. The city has long provided funding for both efforts, with more than 2,000 people assisted since 1990. But the efforts need to be expanded, HOME stated.

The report also recommends that more work be done to introduce new housing models that would provide more affordable options for buyers. One example would be homes that are deed-restricted to remain affordable. Another example would involve community land trusts in which a nonprofit retains the land and the buyer pays just for the house. Other remedies could include expansion of the city’s housing trust fund and development of condo-style homes in which multiple families own units in the same building.

HOME also urges the city to use its zoning powers to encourage development of more affordable housing and to do more to persuade lenders covered by the Community Reinvestment Act to meet the needs of lower-income and minority borrowers.

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Henrico School Board candidate seeks recount

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

Tara Adams has requested a recount in the Henrico County School Board race the PTA volunteer and financial services specialist appears to have lost by just 43 votes.

Ms. Adams, who has yet to concede the election, asked the Henrico County Circuit Court on Monday to order a recount in the Fairfield District election in which the county electoral board declared the Rev. Roscoe D. Cooper III the winner.

Rev. Cooper is pastor of Rising Mount Zion Baptist Church and board president of a nonprofit health network.

The court has scheduled a hearing Friday, Nov. 20, to set the ground rules for the recount that the county must pay for

because Ms. Adams lost by less than a half percentage point. However, based on past history, it is extremely rare for a recount to change an election’s outcome.

Henrico Voter Registrar Mark J. Coakley submitted to the state Nov. 6 a certified vote count that shows 11,470 votes were cast in the race, with Rev. Cooper receiving 5,095 votes, or 44.42 percent, to 5,052 votes, or 44.05 percent, for Ms. Adams.

Ms. Adams In the unofficial count released after the election on Nov. 3, Ms. Adams trailed by 48 votes. In the official count, her total grew by eight votes, while Rev. Cooper’s total increased by

three, resulting in the official 43-vote difference between them.

Rev. Cooper pulled away, according to precinct results, with help from people who cast absentee ballots, which were counted last. He received 166 absentee votes to 116 for Ms. Adams. She led by two votes before the absentee ballots were counted.

The Rev. Marcus D. Martin, pastor of New Bridge Baptist Church in Henrico, ran a distant third, receiving a total of 1,016 votes, or 8.86 percent.

Pierre L. Green, who was appointed to the Fairfield District seat after Lamont Bagby was elected to the state House of Delegates last summer, came in fourth in running as a write-in. In all, 307 write-in votes were cast, or 2.67 percent of the votes, the results show.

Student debt load may impact career paths

By Joey Matthews

Virginia Union University senior William Fortune said he will graduate in the spring owing about $40,000 in student loans.

He had hoped to attend law school, he said, but he estimated that would saddle him with an additional $150,000 in debt. So instead, he’s considering a teaching career.

Suavé McDowney said she chose J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College as a path to a four-year college, noting she’s “already $11,000 in debt” because of student loans.

“I’m concerned if I will be able to pay off my loans,” she said.

The undergraduate students were among panelists at a Student Debt and College Affordability Roundtable on Nov. 12 led at Virginia Commonwealth University by Congressman Robert C. “Bobby” Scott, whose district includes portions of the Richmond area.

Virginia Secretary of Education Anne Holton was among the other panelists.

Rep. Scott, who is the ranking member on the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, said he organized the forum to “discuss the challenges students are facing with paying for college, what schools are doing to combat the student debt crisis and what Congress is doing to make higher education more affordable.”

The U.S. Department of Education estimates that the national student loan debt price tag is $1.3 trillion and about $30 billion of that is outstanding student loan balances for Virginia borrowers.

The roundtable was organized to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the Higher Education Act of 1965, which is the largest authorized federal source of funding for student aid. It has been amended and reauthorized eight times, most recently in 2008.

As Congress works toward another reauthorization effort, Rep. Scott and other House Democrats have introduced legislation this year — some with bipartisan support — designed to improve affordability and to increase access to quality higher education for students from low and middle income families.

Among those legislative efforts: Making two years of community college free; increasing access to Pell Grants; offering financial literacy counseling for all recipients of financial aid; and providing increased access to information for students pursuing postsecondary education.

RVA Reads gives a book a month to pre-schoolers

A city program is helping to put books into the hands of hundreds of Richmond’s youngest schoolchildren with the goal of exciting them about reading.

Called RVA Reads, the program distributes a new book each month to 3- and 4-year-olds, according to Michael Wallace of the city’s press office.

The children are enrolled in classes provided through Richmond Public Schools’Virginia Preschool Initiative at Blackwell, Maymont and Mary Scott schools and at the Martin Luther King Jr. Preschool Learning Center. About 900 city children are enrolled in VPI, a state-supported preschool program that is similar to the federal Head Start, Title One and Developmentally Delayed programs, which separately serve more than 1,000 children in the city.

Book distributions like this one are not new, but most like One School, One Book at Oak Grove-Bellmeade Elementary, target children in third or fourth grade.

RVA Reads is a collaboration of RPS, the Richmond Public Library and the City of Richmond’s Office of Community Wealth Building.

The program allows children and their families to create or expand home libraries and is aimed at increasing the time parents spend reading to their children, Mr. Wallace stated. The program also seeks to encourage use of library services by encouraging parents and children to seek more books.

To introduce this month’s book, members of the city administration and volunteers held a reading event at one of the centers.

This month, the reading event was held Tuesday at the Martin Luther King Jr. Preschool Learning Center.

The December selection will be a bilingual book, “El Libro de las Estaciones/ Book of Seasons” by Alice and Martin Provensen.

Previous books included “The Snowy Day” by Ezra Jack Keats, “The Carrot Seed” by Ruth Krauss, “Caps for Sale” by Esphyr Slobodkina and “Pete the Cat: Rocking in My School Shoes” by Erik Litwin.

RVA Reads began as a pilot project earlier this year. It expanded this fall after Mayor Dwight C. Jones proposed and City Council approved additional funding for the program for all of the children enrolled in VPI classes. — JEREMY M. LAZARUS

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Congressman Robert C. “Bobby” Scott and Virginia Secretary of Education Anne Holton lead the roundtable discussion Nov. 12 at Virginia Commonwealth University to discuss ways to make college more affordable.

Rep. Scott said it’s imperative to make college more affordable for students because a college education can mean the difference between working a minimum wage job or “getting a job where you can support your family.”

“The more you learn, the more you earn,” he said.

Secretary Holton said students pursuing higher education can cut into their college costs by attending publicly funded state universities or going to community colleges for two years and then transferring to four-year colleges. She estimated students could save up to $15,000 in long-term loan debt by going to community college first. She also stressed that it’s important students complete work on their degrees in order to get good jobs so they can pay off their loans.

She also said it’s important that those with a stake in higher education get “as much information as possible” to students about student loans and other financing options so they can make the best decisions possible.

Separately, several hundred educators, business leaders and government officials gathered earlier in the day at VCU’s Siegel Center for the 2015 Virginia Summit on Higher Education and Economic Competitiveness. The event was organized by GO Virginia, the Virginia Business Higher Education Council and the Council on Virginia’s Future.

With the General Assembly scheduled to convene in Janu-

ary, supporters of the recently launched GO Virginia campaign stressed the link between investment in higher education and private sector growth that fuels the economy.

GO Virginia calls for creation of state financial incentives, technical support and other assistance that will encourage collaboration on private sector growth and job creation by business, education and government in each region.

The group said it will seek to work with the governor and the General Assembly to develop those incentives and secure funding in the next state budget to implement its program.

“You cannot have economic development if you don’t have great higher education,” Gov. Terry McAuliffe told the gathering.

The governor noted the state’s recent ranking as 48th in the country in gross domestic product growth. He said his budget, which he will present Dec. 17, will emphasize education and economic development.

“They are intrinsically combined. There is not one without the other,” he said. “You cannot have economic development if you don’t have a great higher ed system, and a great K-12 system.

I would argue a great pre-K system, as well. And it wouldn’t happen without the business community.”

VCU President Michael Rao told the audience, “We have to leverage each other’s strengths. Virginia is its people and we have to continue to develop all our people,” he added.

Among the educators attending the summit were outgoing Virginia State University interim President Pamela Hammond and Norfolk State University interim President Eddie Moore.

Mr. Moore said that he would like to see historically black colleges and universities recognized for “serving the underserved.”

“We all have unique missions and we all should be measured in how we’re accomplishing our mission,” he added.

The summit also included panel discussions, including one moderated by Dominion Resources CEO Tom Farrell, who discussed previous hurdles to regional cooperation and the prospects for GO Virginia with state Sens. Tommy Norment and Dick Saslaw and Delegates Kirk Cox and Steve Landes.

The four legislators lauded GO Virginia’s goal of regional cooperation, but each cautioned it had been hard to forge regional partnerships in recent years.

Brian Fitzgerald, CEO of the Business Higher Education Forum, delivered the keynote address, in which he outlined his organization’s mission of advancing solutions to U.S. education and workforce challenges.

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NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC OF THE APPLICATION OF VIRGINIA ELECTRIC AND POWER COMPANY FOR APPROVAL AND CERTIFICATION OF THREE UTILITY SCALE SOLAR PROJECTS IN VIRGINIA AND FOR APPROVAL OF A RATE ADJUSTMENT CLAUSE CASE NO. PUE-2015-00104 On October 1, 2015, Virginia Electric and Power Company (“Dominion Virginia Power” or “Company”) filed with the State Corporation Commission (“Commission”) an application (“Application”) for approval and certificates of public convenience and necessity (“CPCNs”) to construct and operate three utility scale solar electric generating facilities: (i) the Scott Solar Facility, a 17 megawatt (“MW”) (nominal alternating current (“AC”)) facility located in Powhatan County; (ii) the Whitehouse Solar Facility, a 20 MW AC facility located in Louisa County; and (iii) the Woodland Solar Facility, a 19 MW AC facility located in Isle of Wight County (collectively, “2016 Solar Projects” or “Projects”). The Company requests approval and a CPCN for each of the 2016 Solar Projects pursuant to §§ 56-46.1 and 56-580 D of the Code of Virginia (“Code”) and the Filing Requirements in Support of Applications for Authority to Construct and Operate an Electric Generating Facility. Through its Application, the Company also requests approval of a rate adjustment clause (“RAC”), designated Rider US-2, pursuant to § 56 585.1 A 6 of the Code (“Subsection A 6”) and the Rules Governing Utility Rate Applications and Annual Informational Filings. According to the Company, the revenue requirement of the proposed RAC is based on a market index-based rate mechanism, as permitted

by Subsection A 6.

As proposed, the Projects would include groundmounted, single-axis tracking solar panel arrays, and would interconnect using 34.5 kilovolt distributionlevel facilities. If approved, Dominion Virginia Power expects the proposed Projects to begin commercial operation by December 15, 2016 and that the proposed Projects would collectively provide approximately 124 gigawatt-hours of energy production at an average capacity factor of approximately 25% in the first year of operation.

Dominion Virginia Power estimates the construction cost of the proposed Projects to be approximately $129.5 million, excluding financing costs, or approximately $2,306/kilowatt at the total 56 MW AC rating.

According to Dominion Virginia Power, the proposed Projects are anticipated to take advantage of investment tax credits (“ITCs”). Specifically, the Company notes that according to the current federal tax code, approximately 91% of the capital expenditures on the proposed Projects would qualify for a 30% solar ITC if the Projects are in service by December 31, 2016.

Dominion Virginia Power represents that in conjunction with its own on-going solar project development efforts, the Company issued a request for proposals in July 2015 (“2015 RFP”) designed to support the Company’s evaluation of its Company-developed projects and to consider and weigh possible thirdparty market alternative solar projects. The Company asserts that its 2015 RFP meets the Subsection A 6 requirement to consider and weigh alternative options, including third party market alternatives, in selecting proposed generating facilities.

The Company states that it has proposed a market index-based rate mechanism for Rider US-2 that is based on power purchase agreement (“PPA”) rates for solar energy and intended to provide customers with a levelized rate (with escalation) compared to a traditional cost of service approach.

According to the Company, in designing the market index, it relied upon prices contained in certain PPA proposals bid by third party developers into the 2015 RFP. The Company states that its proposed market index approach is unprecedented and that the Company has submitted a private letter ruling (“PLR”) request with the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) to confirm certain tax treatment associated with its market index approach. The Company further states that its filing is contingent upon a favorable PLR from the IRS. The Company proposes a market index rate for Rider US-2 of $55.66/megawatt-hour (“MWh”) for the first year after commercial operation, escalating at 2.5% annually for 20 years.

The Company proposes an initial rate year for Rider US-2 of September 1, 2016 to August 31, 2017, although the Rider is not designed to become effective until December 1, 2016. The initial total annualized Rider US-2 revenue requirement is $3,980,416, which will produce approximately $2,985,312 in revenues during the initial rate year.

The Company states that the two key components of the revenue requirement for the Projects are the Projected Cost Recovery Factor and the Actual Cost True-up Factor. The Projected Cost Recovery Factor is the result of multiplying projected kilowatt-hour (“kWh”) output from each of the 2016 Solar Projects by the market index rate, minus estimated revenue from the sale of renewable energy certificates (“RECs”). Dominion Virginia Power did not include a true-up amount in this case. However, if initiated in 2017 as expected by the Company, Dominion Virginia Power represents that the Actual Cost True-up portion of the revenue requirement will either credit to, or recover from, jurisdictional customers the difference between actual revenues recovered through Rider US-2 during the prior calendar year and the actual MWh of energy produced by the Projects, multiplied by the market index rate. The Trueup would also reflect any difference between projected revenues from the sale of RECs and actual monies received and carrying costs on over- or under-collection of revenues.

If the proposed Rider US-2 for the 2016 Rate Year is approved, the impact on customer bills would depend on the customer’s rate schedule and usage. The Company asserts that implementation of the proposed Rider US-2 beginning on December 1, 2016, will increase the residential customer’s monthly bill, based on a 1,000 kWh per month, by $0.07.

Interested persons are encouraged to review the Application and supporting documents for the details of these and other proposals. TAKE NOTICE that the Commission may approve revenues and adopt rates, fees, charges, tariff revisions, and terms and conditions of service that differ from those appearing in the Company’s Application and supporting documents and may apportion revenues among customer classes and/ or design rates in a manner differing from that shown in the Company’s Application and supporting documents.

The Commission entered an Order for Notice and Hearing in this proceeding that, among other things, scheduled a public hearing on March 22, 2016, at 10 a.m., in the Commission’s Second Floor courtroom located in the Tyler Building, 1300 East Main Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219, to receive testimony from members of the public and evidence related to the Application from the Company, any respondents, and the Commission’s Staff. Any person desiring to testify as a public witness at this hearing should appear fifteen (15) minutes prior to the starting time of the hearing and contact the Commission’s Bailiff.

A copy of the public version of the Application may be obtained by submitting a written request to counsel for the Company, William H. Baxter II, Esquire, Dominion Resources Services, Inc., Law Department, RS 2, 120 Tredegar Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219. If acceptable to the requesting party, the Company may provide the documents by electronic means.

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

Any person or entity may participate as a respondent in this proceeding by filing, on or before January 12, 2016, a notice of participation. If not filed electronically, an original and fifteen (15) copies of the notice of participation shall be submitted to Joel H. Peck, Clerk, State Corporation Commission, c/o Document Control Center, P.O. Box 2118, Richmond, Virginia 23218-2118. A copy of the notice of participation as a respondent also must be sent to counsel for the Company at the address set forth above. Pursuant to Rule 5 VAC 5-20-80 B, Participation as a respondent, of the Commission’s Rules of Practice and Procedure, any notice of participation shall set forth: (i) a precise statement of the interest of the respondent; (ii) a statement of the specific action sought to the extent then known; and (iii) the factual and legal basis for the action. All filings shall refer to Case No. PUE-2015-00104. For additional information about participation as a respondent, any person or entity should obtain a copy of the Commission’s Order for Notice and Hearing.

On or before March 15, 2016, any interested person wishing to comment on the Application shall file written comments on the Application with the Clerk of the Commission at the address set forth above. Any interested person desiring to file comments electronically may do so on or before March 15, 2016, by following the instructions on the Commission’s website: http://www.scc.virginia.gov/ case. Compact discs or any other form of electronic storage medium may not be filed with the comments. All such comments shall refer to Case No. PUE-2015-00104.

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

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Think globally The terrorist attacks in Paris last week that resulted in the deaths of 129 people and the wounding of several hundred more are the latest tragedy in a world becoming all too familiar with violence of this type and magnitude.

Somehow, we divorce ourselves from the fatal incidents and suicide bombings occurring across the globe until they happen to people we connect with.

We didn’t light candles and paint ourselves in the colors of the Lebanese flag (Quick – without looking – can you describe Lebanon’s flag?) when, just one day before the hair-raising shootings and bombings in Paris, twin suicide bombers took the lives of more than 40 people and wounded more than 240 others on a crowded street around the capital of Beirut.

Why is it that we feel the pain of the Parisians — Nous sommes tous Parisiens — but we didn’t mourn in solidarity with the Lebanese?

Go back just a few months to April. Where were the international outrage and tears over the deaths of 147 students and others gunned down by terrorists on the campus of Garissa University in Kenya? More than 500 students managed to flee as four gunmen opened fire and then detonated their suicide vests when they were surrounded.

We do not condone the actions of terrorists in any of these or other attacks. But we urge caution by the United States and other nations as they grapple with the appropriate response. Just days after the Paris attacks, the French led targeted airstrikes on the terrorist Islamic State, or ISIL, that claimed responsibility. The United States joined in those airstrikes in Raqqa, Syria.

According to a Sept. 30 Newsweek article, 13 countries already were bombing Syria before the Paris attacks, among them Russia, Jordan, Bahrain, Canada, Australia, England, Turkey, Israel, Saudi Arabia and the U.A.E. — all for different reasons.

Russia began another round of airstrikes Tuesday after confirming that the Russian airliner that crashed Oct. 31 shortly after takeoff in Egypt was brought down by a bomb planted by ISIL. All 224 people aboard were killed.

The entire situation is fraught with confusion.

And we are distressed at some of the responses by those who purport to be leaders in the United States. We have heard presidential candidates say, “I would bomb the sh.. out of them,” (Donald Trump) to others’ strident calls for sending in ground troops (Jeb Bush) and shutting the U.S. borders to Syrian refugees (Ben Carson).

We acknowledge that balancing compassion and security is difficult. But turning our backs on the suffering of others can change friends into foes. Fighting terrorism often turns people into terrorists. (See the United States’ bombing of a Doctors Without Borders trauma center in Afghanistan in October.)

We are bolstered by the statement released Monday

by Gov. Terry McAuliffe, who appears unbowed by the fears that cripple more than 30 governors who say Syrian refugees are not welcome in their states.

While Gov. McAuliffe talked about maintaining close contact with federal and local public safety officials to ensure the protection of our communities, he did not send the Virginia National Guard to seal off the state to anyone identified as a refugee from Syria.

Brian McCoy, a spokesman for the governor, said Wednesday that 25 Syrians were resettled in Virginia during the 2014-15 fiscal year, but none have arrived since July 1 and none are in the pipeline.

As we, the people, in the United States and Virginia maneuver through this social-political minefield that threatens to blow up into World War III, we must seek sources of information that are authentic and untainted by forces whose agendas may seek to engage us in an all-out war. (Recall the false reports of weapons of mass destruction that sucked us into an ultra-expensive and protracted occupation of Iraq that has destabilized the Middle East and unleashed the warring factions and terrorist hounds of hell we currently face.)

We also call on the United Nations to take a leadership role in crafting a global strategy to combat ISIL and its terrorist sympathizers. What is taking place is bigger than the French, the United States, Russia and even NATO. The battle against terrorism must include a wider group, not just Western nations.

And until we see and understand that terrorism’s victims come from a range of nations, we will not come together at a wider, bigger table to try to restore peace.

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Beyond T-shirts and hoodies Recollections of my 1995 article on the business of college athletics danced in my head when I heard the news about the University of Missouri football team’s refusal to play until the president of that university, Tim Wo l f e , r e signed or was dismissed.

The players said, “Due to his negligence toward marginalized students’ experience” and his lax attitude regarding racial issues on campus, they would no longer participate in football activities. Ultimately, Tim Wolfe resigned.

As I noted in 1995, and in several articles on college athletics and the billions of dollars they generate, money is the name of the game. When coaches of college teams earn several million dollars each year and half-billion dollar stadiums are being built, the actual laborers — the players — get lost in the shuffle.

The players on the Missouri football team are far from being invisible as they are making a statement that has divulged an

economic vulnerability. There are lessons to be learned and actions to be replicated from this case.

According to an article on CBS Sports, “Canceling game with BYU would cost Mizzou $1,000,000.” Everything boils down to dollars, if you look deeply enough, and the young

James Clingman men on Missouri’s team are illuminating that reality by their actions. The same thing could be done in professional athletics as well, in an effort to change the business-as-usual approach to racial inequities and mistreatment in the general society. It would be much more effective than T-shirts and hoodies.

Instead of wearing shirts with a nice-sounding slogan on them, or hoodies that connote illegal killings of black folks, black armbands or writing something on their shoes, Missouri football players chose the “nuclear option,” as some in Congress would call it. They put their prospective livelihoods and their scholarships on the line by actually doing something substantive rather than symbolic in response to their legitimate concerns about the conditions

on their campus.

The sacrifice these young people are making cannot be overstated, and I commend them for being strong and committed enough to put core values before fame.

Fortunately, they won their game Nov. 14 against Brigham Young University 20-16, upping their record to 5-5 for the season.

They took a principled stand against racism. Other athletes already have fought that battle and some are still paying the price decades later. Tommie Smith, John Carlos, Muhammad Ali, Curt Flood and Craig Hodges, just to name a few, took their stands against the system and took the blows that their peers were unwilling to take. They paid a hefty price for having the temerity to stand up and speak out.

The Missouri football players now find themselves in a crucible of consciousness, and we should stand with them and assure that they do not suffer the same fate as their forerunners.

If they are “blacklisted” by the NFL, black people and other sympathizers should boycott NFL games. The same goes for Coach Gary Pinkel, who took the unusual step of standing

Hope for the ‘Cotton Curtain’ We won the Voting Rights Act of 1965 at Selma, combining the power of a principled mass movement led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and a compassionate president who did the right thing despite the heavy political price.

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Johnson said it best at the time when he told his aides that we’d “just lost the South for a generation.”

The Jefferson Davis Democrats in the South did the wrong thing by responding to the “Southern strategy” of President Richard Nixon and the racial dog whistles of Ronald Reagan.

Because of race, the once solid Democratic South switched over to become today’s solid Republican South.

Now it has been half a century — not just a generation, as LBJ foretold, but two-and-a-half generations. And still the Republican Party dominates below the Mason-Dixon Line.

The Democratic Party in today’s South has been “hollowed out,“ with only a handful of successful statewide Democratic candidates.

As long as that situation exists, the Democrats will be able to win the presidency, but what about the Senate and House?

The sad irony is that the South has benefited the most from the Civil Rights Movement — white people as well

as African-Americans.

The tearing down of the “Cotton Curtain“ by the civil rights martyrs and marchers meant that the South could join our modern economy. Populations jumped. The Civil RightsMovement forced the development of integrated football teams at Southern colleges that now

Jesse Jackson Sr. dominate the sport. The Olympics could be held in Atlanta in 1996, with Muhammad Ali and Stevie Wonder at the closing ceremonies. Toyota and Mercedes Benz could locate plants in the South, providing better jobs than cotton ever had.

Yet Southern politicians, stuck in the politics of fear, still poke at racial wounds for short-term success.

In order to starve the government, Southern politicians still refuse to invest in infrastructure across the region. Rebuilding our ports and harbors, investing in jobs programs that would employ white and AfricanAmerican workers, preparing our coasts to survive the future Katrina-like storms that climate change will bring, accepting the Medicaid expansion that would provide needed health care for so many families — these public policy initiatives would develop the region even more, and open up the futures for so many young Southerners.

Yet too many politicians and voters continue to choose race over reason, choosing the party that backs both tax cuts

and job cuts.

How do we break through?

First of all, we need to compete everywhere in the country, from the local level to the state level to the presidency. The Democratic Party in the South needs to rebuild.

Second, as a candidate, President Obama showed us how we win in the South — with a message of hope and change, combined with a massive voter registration effort and a huge voter turnout. In 2008, that combination carried Florida, North Carolina and Virginia. In 2012, Florida and Virginia again went blue, with North Carolina barely missing out.

Third, we need to battle voter suppression. Sen. Bernie Sanders was right when he pointed out that too many Republican leaders are “cowards” for repressing the African-American vote. Sen. Sanders also mentioned universal voter registration during the Democratic forum, and right afterward he raised an idea that I have been pushing for — a constitutional amendment to guarantee the right to vote to every American.

Fourth, we need to invest bottom-up in the South, economically and politically. If we raise wages, provide health care for everyone and open up voter registration to all our people, hope will rise, the South will develop and people’s lives will be better.

If white working-class families choose hope over fear, their lives will improve — and so will those of Southern Latinos and AfricanAmericans. And Democrats will be able to win elections again.

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with his players.

The economic lesson from the players’ threatened “work stoppage,” juxtaposed against Mizzou student Jonathan Butler’s life-threatening hunger strike, is quite revealing. Mr. Butler’s life was virtually ignored, but when the dollars came into play, things changed right away. The university’s message: A black life does not matter, but black dollars do matter. Considering all the critical issues facing black people in this country, we would do well to use economic power instead of relying on political influence to make appropriate changes to our overall condition.

We should celebrate the Missouri players for taking the road less traveled as they fight for their rights on their campus. They chose substance over symbolism, action over passivity.

The writer is founder of t h e G re a t e r C i n c i n n a t i African-American Chamber of Commerce.

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City needs better rapid transit plan The RVA Coalition for Smart Transit represents 11 neighborhood organizations and civic groups. We are Richmond voters, residents, taxpayers, business owners and bus riders from every demographic. We vigorously support improved public transit in Richmond, and that is precisely why we are so concerned about GRTC’s bus rapid transit as it is currently planned.

The more we learn about this bus concept called “the Pulse,” the more it appears to be fundamentally flawed. According to GRTC’s own million dollar study, 47 percent of Richmonders have no bus service where they live. According to a Harvard University study, Richmond ranks 92nd out of 100 metropolitan areas in public transit service.

As proposed, the Pulse does virtually nothing to budge those numbers because it is a bus route aimed at “choice riders,” meaning people who don’t ride the bus on a route where we already have buses. It does nothing to serve the thousands of people who need bus service but don’t have it.

GRTC estimates that the Pulse will attract 30 new daily riders. However, in public meetings, GRTC raises that figure to 500 new riders. No data are supplied to validate an estimate 17 times higher than the original. But these estimates are critical because this is how we estimate the annual deficits that this single bus line will incur. It appears that the annual deficits will be between $2 million and $5 million as best we can tell.

Where will this unknown sum come from in a very tight city budget? Will it come from the schools? From reductions in the already meager bus system?

From law enforcement? Parks and recreation? We have asked, but have received no answers.

Among the many unintended consequences of this bus route, the most disturbing would be quashing the renaissance on Broad Street. It seems likely that very few of the small businesses in the corridor will survive the disruptions of a years-long construction project.

Any businesses that survive the construction may find their prospects will shrink along with a Broad Street diminished by the loss of about half the parking, most of the loading zones, many of the left turns and the

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loss of two lanes of traffic.

In terms of economic benefit as well as social justice, the Pulse fails to deliver. Indeed, the risk of failure is very high, but we have yet to see a cost/ benefit analysis. What does failure look like? A $54 million bus route that attracts few if any new riders, with a huge ongoing annual cost. That’s failure, and it will preclude the development of a comprehensive system that the proponents promise.

The RVA Coalition is certain that Richmond must and can do better. That’s why we ask everyone to join us in calling on Richmond City Council to slow this project down and work with us to tailor a transit project that really works for all of us.

Our slogan is UNITE THE CITY! Instead of putting our good name on a boondoggle that costs millions a year for something that seems likely to fail, we ask people to unite with us — work with us — for a plan that we can all be proud of, and from which we all derive multiple benefits.

JONATHAN MARCUS The writer is president of the West Grace Street Association and chairperson of RVA Coalition for Smart Transit.

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HENRICO COUNTY TAXPAYERS THE 2015 SECOND INSTALLMENT PERSONAL PROPERTY AND REAL ESTATE TAX PAYMENT DUE DATE IS DECEMBER 7, 2015 The Cashier’s Office of the Department of Finance, County of Henrico, Virginia, located in the Administration Building at the Henrico County Government Center, 4301 E. Parham Road and at the Eastern Government Center, 3820 Nine Mile Road, Henrico, Virginia will be open daily Monday through Friday from 8:00 A.M. to 4:30 P.M. to receive payments for the 2015 Personal Property and Real Estate Tax Bills.

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Stories by Fred Jeter Runners from Kenya and Ethiopia were first to the finish line last Saturday in the 38th Annual Anthem Richmond Marathon.

More than 19,000 runners competed in the main event — the 26.2-mile marathon — along with its companion races, the half marathon and 8K. Some 15,700 finished the courses on a chilly, breezy morning that was challenging for fans but just right for elite runners.

Race officials estimated 40,000 spectators lined the roads offering encouragement during the events.

Placing first among the male racers was Kenyan Hilary Too, 36, in 2:18:48.

It marked the 13th time in the last 15 years that an East African runner from Kenya or Ethiopia has placed first.

This year’s women’s champion was 23-yearold Hirut Beyene Guangul of Ethiopia. She finished in 2:42:13. It was the sixth straight year an Ethiopian woman has been the Richmond Marathon women’s champ.

The men’s and women’s champions each received $2,500. They fell short of the $2,500 bonus awarded for event records.

Kenyan Kennedy Kemei set the men’s record in 2011 at 2:13:45. The women’s record of 2:31:2 was established in 2000 by Russian Irina Suvorova.

Kemei took second this year at 2:19:01. Mengistu Tabor Nebsi of Ethiopia placed third at 2:22:56.

The first American finisher was former College of William & Mary athlete Richard Morris of Richmond. He came in fourth with a time of 2:26:39.

Kenyan, Ethiopian runners clinch top spots in marathon

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Hilary Too, 36, of Kenya snaps the ribbon as he comes across the finish line to win first place in the Anthem Richmond Marathon.

Women’s champion Hirut Beyene Guangul, 23, of Ethiopia crosses the finish line with a time of 2:42:13. She and the men’s champion won $2,500.

Coincidentally, this is the second time in the last three years a Kenyan named Too has won. In 2013, Sammy Too, no relation, won

in 2:15:14.

This year’s women’s race was a second- and third-place splash for Kenyans, with Jane Je-

rono Rotich taking second at 2:45:52 and Loice Kangogo taking third at 2:48:01.

Suzanne Hutchins of Charlottesville was fourth with 2:52:37.

Cash awards were won by the first five finishers in each race.

The remarkable, sustained success of East African runners in Richmond is reflected on the world stage.

Both Kenya and Ethiopia began attending the Summer Olympics in 1956 at Melbourne, Australia. They began making their medal mark in 1960 in Rome, when Ethiopian Abebe Bikila won that year’s Olympic Marathon running barefoot and again in 1964 in Tokyo wearing shoes.

Kenya’s first gold medalist was Naftali Temu, winner of the 10,000-meters competition at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City.

Overall, Kenyan men and women have won 86 Olympic medals — 25 of them gold medals — while Ethiopians have won 45 medals, 21 of them gold medals.

The first Kenyan runner to win the Richmond Marathon was Hillary Tuwei in 1979, the second year of the event.

At the time, Tuwei was a student athlete at the University of Richmond, recruited to UR by track Coach Fred Hardy.

Tuwei’s winning time of 2:22:26 was more than six minutes faster than the 1978 winner, Richmonder David Ruggles with 2:28:49.

The last local athlete to win in Richmond was Tim Covington, an athlete out of Clover Hill High and Virginia Tech. Covington won in 1994, 1996 and 1998.

VUU heads to first round of NCAA playoffs Virginia Union University has been given the chance to scratch a 24-year football itch.

But before the Panthers say can “ahh,” there is much work to be done.

Coach Mark James’ squad will travel Saturday to northwest Pennsylvania — 50 miles north of Pittsburgh — to face Slippery Rock University in the opener of the NCAA Division II football playoffs.

The VUU team would be wise to pack their woolens. The extended weather forecast suggests a high temperature of 35 degrees on Nov. 21.

At any temp, playing The Rock is a challenging assignment.

The Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference champs are 10-1 and ranked No. 5 nationally and No. 2 in the NCAA Division II Super Region 1. Slippery Rock’s team also leads the nation in scoring at 49 points per game.

“To their credit, they have a great offense. But on our side, we think we have the defense to match them,” said Coach James.

“We’ve just got to get down and focus.”

The two programs exchanged video on Hudl soon after the Division II matches were announced.

“We’ve got their whole caboodle, and they have ours,” said Coach James.

This marks VUU’s first NCAA football playoff invitation since 1991, when Joe Taylor was coaching the Panthers. He now is VUU’s athletic director and hired Coach James last winter to replace Michael Bailey.

The Panthers made the playoffs eight times between 1979 and 1991, losing in the first round each time.

Much has changed. About the only people with roots to the previous postseasons are Taylor, equipment manager Sam Davis and longtime special assistant Bernard Rucker.

Virginia Union University football and the NCAA Division II playoffs (0-8 all-time)

Under Coach Willard Bailey (0-5) 1979: University of Delaware 58, VUU 28, Newark, Del. 1980: University of North Alabama 17, VUU 8, Florence, Ala. 1981: Shippensburg University of Pa., 40, VUU 27, City Stadium Richmond 1982: North Dakota State 21, VUU 20, Fargo, N.D. 1983: University of North Alabama 16, VUU 14, Florence, Ala.

Under Coach Joe Taylor (0-3) Coach James

1986: Troy State 31, VUU 7, Troy, Ala. 1990: Edinboro University of Pa. 38, VUU 14, Hovey Field, Richmond 1991: Indiana University of Pa. 56, VUU 7, Indiana, Pa.

In Coach James’ second season, VUU qualified on the strength of its 8-2 record and its runner-up finish to Bowie State University in the CIAA Northern Division.

VUU averages 33 points and 436 yards on attack and leads the NCAA Division II in defense, allowing just 221 yards per game.

VUU is seeded seventh in the NCAA Division II’s Super Region 1.

The winner of the VUU-Slippery Rock game will take on the survivor of No. 6 Bowie State against No. 3 Assumption College of Massachusetts on Nov. 28.

Generally, the higher seed school hosts the game until the

finals.

The championship game of the 28-team, five-tier event will be played Dec. 19 in Kansas City, Mo. Seven members of the VUU Panthers lineup made All-CIAA: Offensive linemen Addison Hayes and Dahon Taylor, defensive lineman Miles Price and Paulin Miano, linebacker Joe Blanks, defensive back Rodeshawn Joseph and tailback Hakeem Holland.

Quarterback Shawheem Dowdy made the second team.

Price, the CIAA sacks leader, will miss the Slippery Rock game with an injury.

Holland, a freshman from Baltimore, also was named CIAA Offensive Rookie of the Year. Holland has rushed for 1,012 yards and has 12 touchdowns.

Slippery Rock is hitting on all cylinders, winning its last three games: 52-10 over Edinboro University, 65-13 over Clarion University and 61-12 over West Chester University for the conference title.

The Rock averages 517 yards per game on offense, which is the fourth best nationally.

VUU, which was idle this past week, last played Nov. 7 when the Panthers defeated Virginia State University 28-27 in Ettrick.

“It’s nice getting that week’s rest,” said Coach James.

Slippery Rock is a state-supported institution with about 9,000 undergraduates. Its football facility, Mihalik-Thompson Stadium, is named in part for current Coach George Mihalik.

In his 28th season, Coach Mihalik is 185-109-4 and has taken The Rock to playoffs six times. The team’s best finish was the semifinals.

Coach James is 15-5 in two VUU seasons. The Panthers’ two losses this season were by a combined six points to Bowie State and Gardner-Webb universities.

VCU Rams take on Duke Blue Devils in NY

Here comes the rubber match.

Virginia Commonwealth University and Duke University have met twice before in basketball, in 2007 and 2012, with each school winning once.

The third meeting will Coach Wade take place 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 20, at Madison Square Garden in New York City as part of the 2K Classic to benefit the Wounded Warrior Project.

The game will be televised on ESPN2.

The University of Wisconsin and Georgetown University will play in the other half of the draw. The consolation and championship games will be Sunday, Nov. 22, with games at 1 and 3 p.m., respectively.

Both defending NCAA champion Duke and VCU have a different look this season.

Blue Devils Coach Mike Krzyzewski lost three first-round NBA draft choices —Jahlil Okafor, Justice Winslow and Tyus Jones — from last year’s 35-4 squad.

Absent from VCU are Coach Shaka Smart,

who left in April to coach at the University of Texas, and standout players Treveon Graham and Briante Weber, now in the NBA Development League.

New Rams Coach Will Wade opened with a 75-50 Coach Krzyzewski victory last week over Prairie View A&M University.

VCU improved to 2-0 under Coach Wade with a 92-74 victory Monday over visiting Radford University. In front of a sold out crowd of 7,637, Melvin Johnson hit six of the Rams’ 13 threepointers and led scoring with 24 points.

Duke, with five NCAA titles to its credit, is arguably the marquee attraction in all of college basketball.

Coach Krzyzewski is 947-251 at Duke since 1980.

Perhaps VCU’s all-time, take notice victory was in 2007, when it upset Duke 79-77 in the first round of the NCAA playoffs in Buffalo, N.Y. Eric Maynor hit the game winner for VCU with 1.8 seconds left. Maynor’s shot has come

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Virginia Commonwealth University forward Justin Tillman takes it to the hoop to score in the game last Friday against Prairie View A&M University at the Siegel Center. The Rams won 75-50.

to be known as “The Dagger.”

Duke gained revenge in 2012, defeating VCU 67-58 at the Battle 4 Atlantic tournament in Nassau, Bahamas.

The Rams get two more cracks at ACC schools this season. VCU will face Florida State University on Dec. 6 and Georgia Tech on Dec. 15 in Atlanta.

Ramblings: VCU has agreed to play in the

2017 Maui Classic in Lahaina, Hawaii.

Two VCU freshmen, Samir Doughty and Jonathan Nwankwo, will be red-shirted this season.

On the recruiting trail, Coach Wade has two high school commits: 6-foot-5 Marquell Fraser from Hamilton, Ontario, in Canada and 6-foot-6 De’Riante Jenkins from Orlando, Fla. Jenkins is playing this season at Hargrave Military Academy in Chatham.

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Personality: Elijah Coles-Brown Spotlight on youth orator, winner of NAACP Great Expectations Youth Award Elijah Coles-Brown is a young man who has something to say and when he opens his mouth, he says it well.

Even at the tender age of 11, the Henrico County resident is gaining a reputation as a dynamic motivational speaker.

The Moody Middle School sixth-grader was awarded the Great Expectations Youth Award earlier this month by the Richmond Branch NAACP at its annual Freedom Fund Awards Gala.

To make the event even more exciting for the young man and his family was his inclusion in the program. He was asked to introduce the event’s keynote speaker, the Rev. William J. Barber II. Dr. Barber and the nearly 300 attendees sat in awe as the small-framed, pre-teen’s voice flowed across the podium and filled the room with a confidence and maturity that belied his young years.

Dr. Barber, who is president of the North Carolina NAACP, was so taken by the introduction that he invited Elijah back to the stage for personal recognition and to exchange contact information.

“I will take one of your business cards and you take one of mine. We have to get together,” Dr. Barber expressed to the amusement of the audience.

Elijah’s speaking typically is met with an enthusiastic response. He has been involved in public speaking since the second grade and suggests that public speaking is in his DNA. “Growing up, I was influenced by my uncles who are ministers, Rev. Paul Coles, Rev. Reuben Coles, Rev. Michael Felton and, of course my pastor, Rev. Morris Henderson” of Thirty-first Street Baptist Church, he says.

But Elijah doesn’t lean totally on genetics. He is dedicated to studying the craft of good speech writing and delivery.

“Doing the research to authenticate the content is necessary to make a good speech,” he explains.

Once the research is complete, he then moves to the area of the process where he excels most — relaying the facts in an entertaining way.

“A good speaker will make sure that they always know their topic … and allow (their) personality to shine through.”

But as exceptional as his speaking gift is, public speaking is not his final career destination.

Elijah is enrolled in the International Baccalaureate

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program and is reading and performing math on a 10th-grade level. It is his mathematical talent that is guiding his future dreams.

Elijah plans to study advanced math and physical science in his pursuit of becoming a mechanical engineer — specializing in roller coaster design.

“I want to design the tallest and largest roller coaster in the world, while maintaining the safety and enjoyment of its passengers,” he says.

But even when he has transitioned into the world of math and science, he still wants to incorporate his verbal gifts to inspire.

“I feel that I have a gift to share,” he says. “God has given me a special gift to memorize, interpret and convey relevant information to my audiences. I desire to motivate, inspire and be a role model for other young African-American males to help them make their dreams come to fruition.”

Let’s meet this week’s young Personality, Elijah ColesBrown.

Date and place of birth: Feb. 10 in Norfolk.

Current place of residence: Henrico County.

Family: My mom, Brenda Coles, who is the foundation and guiding force in my life.

My father is Joseph Brown.

My brother, Larry Robinson, has served two tours of duty in Iraq and is presently enrolled at Norfolk State University studying business administration.

Best subject: Math.

Extracurricular activities: I am a member of Boy Scout Troop 414. I am the president of the local Nubian Village Academy chapter of the National Society of Black Engineers. I

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am an active member of Thirty-first Street Baptist Church, where I participate in the media ministry and the youth usher board.

And I am a local actor with several stage credits under my belt. Currently, I am working on the upcoming film, “Loving,” and in the past, I have performed as Frederick Douglass in the “Abolitionists’ Museum,” as well as, “Vivacious” and “Say It Loud, I’m Black And I’m Proud: The Spirit and Soul of James Brown.”

When I got interested in public speaking: I was encouraged by my second- and third-grade teacher, Ms. Amy Wells, while at Twin Hickory Elementary school. She encouraged me to speak on topics that were sensitive for kids. Public speaking became the norm in my class on a weekly basis and I became comfortable with speaking.

First time I remember speaking in front of an audience: My speaking debut was at my church, when I dramatized Dr. Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech.

My public speaking mentors are: Professor L. Roe Boyd III, public speaking professor at Virginia State University and Virginia Union University and Ms. Yamaha Jubilee. Another speaking mentor of mine is, of course, my mother, who is my biggest supporter.

My mentors assist me by: Coaching and critiquing my stage presence, performance techniques and how to express the written word with eloquence and grace.

Key to becoming a good speaker: A good speaker knows how to grab the audience’s attention and maintain that attention. One must also know how to adapt to their audience. A good speaker knows how to give an impromptu speech. A good speaker knows how to pick up on the audience’s feedback.

What makes a good speech: Grab the audience’s attention at the beginning and maintaining that attention. Providing thought-provoking and stimulating facts while entertaining the audience at the same time.

How to overcome stage fright: Breathe. Going through breathing exercises, I understand the importance of breath and using the energy of fear to my advantage by transforming it into positive energy that I can project to the audience.

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7 to be introduced at PROC Beautillion Seven young men will be introduced to society at the 21st Annual PROC Beautillion on Saturday, Nov. 21, at the Greater Richmond Convention Center.

This year’s theme: “Setting Ourselves Apart … A Breed of New Leaders.”

Since 1995, the Pi Rho Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc.’s fundraising arm Professionals Reaching Out to the Community Foundation has been working to broaden the horizons of young men to prepare them for future success.

It seemed a natural extension of the sorority’s work with young women to include young men, organizers explained.

“No other organization was dealing with the young men,” explains Brenda J. Foster, co-chair of the Beautillion, a black tie event. “But it’s a necessary right of passage.”

Beautillion participants are high school juniors and seniors either recommended by their school counselors or identified by organization members.

The young men take part in an eight-month enrichment program that includes community service activities, personal growth workshops such as how to dress for success and etiquette classes.

“Not only do we teach them about how to use formal place settings during dinner, but also how to treat a young lady on a date — holding out chairs and what gift to bring when invited to someone’s

home for dinner,” Ms. Foster added.

The program culminates with the Beautillion, where the PROC Foundation will present education and book scholarships to those who excelled during the program.

The 2015 Beautillion group: • Aaron Christopher Duhart, a junior at Trinity Episcopal High School, son of Dr. H. Bobby Duhart and Verna E. Bradby. His escort is Jessica Marie Coleman.

• Marion O’Neal Haskett Jr., a junior at Lloyd C. Bird High School, son of Mr. and Mrs. Mario O. Haskett Sr. His escort is Autumn Renae Alston.

• Larry Darwin James Jr., a junior at Benedictine College Preparatory High School, son of Mr. and Mrs. Larry D. James Sr. His escort is Ja’Nell Thelma Chavis.

• Jason Connor Wade, a junior at Hanover High School, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ronnie Wade.

His escort is Jada Renee Gibson.

• Nathaniel Graves Wells, a senior at Lloyd C. Bird High School, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Wells. His escort is Ryan Danielle Williams.

• Johquin Tyree Wiley, a junior at Lloyd C. Bird High School, godson of Mr. and Mrs. Rafer Giles. His escort is Megan Ashley Farrar.

• Yahkeim Young, a senior at Henrico High School, son of Dr. & Mrs. William Young. His escort is Taylor Elizabeth Farrar.

Community service I perform: The phone bank for President Obama’s 2008 and 2012 campaigns. With Boy Scout Troop 414, I participated in giving away food baskets in Church Hill, as well as the neighborhood cleanup and Christmas gift delivery for transitional housing occupants.

In 2014, my company, Dreamer’s Imagine, decided that, instead of giving away candy for Halloween, we would create and participate in “Book or Treat.” I also participated in the Black Lives Matter march, VEA/NEA march and the 50th Anniversary March of the March on Washington.

Best late-night snack: Yogurt.

The person who influenced me the most: My beautiful, awesome and wisdom-filled mother, Brenda Coles.

The book that influenced me the most: “Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings,” edited by Philip S. Foner.

Next goal: I want to meet President Obama. I would tell President Obama that he has been an inspiration to me and a role model who has allowed me to believe that nothing is impossible when you read, dream and imagine.

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VCU homecoming royalty

Lawrence Cooper and Amy Chong are all smiles after they were presented as the Virginia Commonwealth University 2015 Homecoming King and Queen last Friday at the Rams’ game against Prairie View A&M University at the Siegel Center. The Rams trounced the Panthers 75-50.

Last weekend’s homecoming festivities at VCU included a parade, alumni and student leader networking brunch, a step show and a VCU women’s basketball game won by the Lady Rams, 73-42, over Coppin State University.

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“Laying the Foundation for our Student Athletes” Support the Huguenot High School Athletic Boosters “Brick Campaign” by purchasing a brick from the old Huguenot High School to be made into a structure by the Gymnasium at the new Huguenot High School!

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November 19-21, 2015

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Faith News/Directory

World religious leaders condemn Paris carnage

By Rosie Scammell Religion News Service

French President Francois Hollande said the attacks were an “act of war” carried out by the group that calls itself the Islamic State. Its propaganda arm took responsibility in statements in various languages, claiming revenge for French participation in U.S.-led military operations against its fighters in Syria and Iraq.

Witnesses had reported hearing the cry “Allahu Akbar” from gunmen, and supporters of the group cheered on social media, while many other Muslims condemned the bloodshed.

In Ireland, the imam of the Al-Mustafa Islamic Centre in Dublin said his thoughts and prayers are with the people of Paris “and every other place on earth plagued by sick men with weapons and bombs.”

“Terrorists have no religion whatsoever,” said the Muslim leader, Umar Al-Qadri. “Their religion is intolerance, hatred for peace.”

Shuja Shafi, secretary-general of the Muslim Council of Britain, said, “This attack is being claimed by the group calling themselves ‘Islamic State.’There is nothing Islamic about such people, and their actions are evil and outside the boundaries set by our faith.”

In the United States, the reactions varied, including among evangelical Christians.

Franklin Graham, son of the preacher Billy

VATICAN CITY Pope Francis raised the specter of a World War III “in pieces,” Muslims issued statements of condemnation, while evangelical Christians in America debated whether to speak of a “war with Islam.”

These were some of the responses last week by religious leaders around the world to the series of attacks Nov. 13 in Paris that left more than 120 people dead and hundreds of others wounded.

“This is not human,” Pope Francis said in a phone call to an Italian Catholic television station. Asked by the interviewer if it was part of a “Third World War in pieces,” he responded: “This is a piece. There is no justification for such things.”

Earlier, the Vatican’s chief spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, released a statement saying, “This is an attack on peace for all humanity, and it requires a decisive, supportive response on the part of all of us as we counter the spread of homicidal hatred in all of its forms.”

In Cairo, Al-Azhar University, the preeminent seat of Sunni Muslim scholarship, called the attacks a criminal act and said that “Islam denounces any violence,” the Arabic news site Al Arabiya reported, quoting Egypt’s state news agency, MENA.

Graham, said, “Islam is at war with us.”

“As we pray for France we also need to pray for wisdom for the world’s leaders & that Islam will be stopped in its tracks,” he tweeted.

However, evangelical author Ed Stetzer criticized the call for “war with Islam.”

“I want to see Muslims come to Christ (as, yes, they want to win me to Islam).

And, we can’t do that by going to war with a billion people,” he wrote in Christianity Today.

Among mainline Protestants, the presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, Michael Curry, called upon “all Episcopalians and people of goodwill and faith to pray for those who have died.”

Iran’s president, Hassan Rouhani, canceled a meeting with the pope at the Holy See, as well as the rest of his European trip, which was to have included a visit to Paris.

President Rouhani had been scheduled to arrive in Rome last Saturday for meetings with the pontiff and Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi.

The Iranian leader called the attacks “crimes against humanity.”

Multiple terrorist attacks in the French capital targeted civilians at a concert hall, restaurants and a sports stadium, where President Hollande was present. Seven of the attackers also died.

Lionel Cironneau/Associated Press

People light candles in tribute to the victims of last Friday’s terrorist attacks in Paris that killed 129 people and injured several hundred others. Across the world, people have displayed their sympathy and solidarity with the French people. This scene was in Nice, in Southern France, on Monday.

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

‘The Hand of God’ at VMFA Adam and Eve emerge from “The Hand of God,” one of 200 works by French master sculptor Auguste Rodin that will be on display in Richmond beginning Saturday, Nov. 21, at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.

The exhibition, “Rodin: Evolution of a Genius,” will include other plasters, as well as bronzes, marbles, ceramics and works on paper by the 19th-century artist who is regarded as a pioneer of modern sculpture.

His most popular works, “The Thinker” and “The Kiss,” also will be on display in the exhibit that is drawn mostly from collections at the Musée Rodin in Paris and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.

In conjunction with the exhibit, VMFA will offer educational programs and events around the state for audiences of all ages.

The works will be on view through March 13 at the museum, 200 N. Boulevard. Information: www. vmfa.museum or (804) 340-1400.

April Coleman/Richmond Free Press

FirstM iBaptist Church dlothian

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

Service Times Sunday

Church School 9:45AM Worship 11:00AM

Tuesday

Bible Study 12 Noon 7:00PM Prayer & Praise 8:15PM

Rev. Pernell J. Johnson, Pastor

St. Peter Baptist Church Worship Opportunities Morning Worship Church School Morning Worship

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

Unity Sundays (2nd Sundays) Church School Morning Worship

8:30 A.M. 10 A.M.

Thursdays:

Mid-Day Bible Study 12 Noon Prayer & Praise 6:30 P.M. Bible Study 7 P.M. (Children/Youth/Adults)

Thanksgiving Eve Service Wednesday, November 25, 2015 7:00 P.M. Music rendered by the Agape Singers 2040 Mountain Road • Glen Allen, Virginia 23060 Office 804-262-0230 • Fax 804-262-4651 • www.stpeterbaptist.net

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

We Are Growing In The Kingdom As We Grow The Kingdom with Word, Worship and Witness

Thanksgiving Worship SUNDAY, November 22, 2015 10:40 AM Worship and Praise 11:00 AM Divine Worship

Message by: Pastor Bibbs “Psalm 100” 4:00 PM Ordination Service for Rev. Herman Lee West at Good Shepherd Baptist Church Dr. Sylvester Smith, Pastor

Rev. Dr. Yvonne Jones Bibbs, Pastor

SUNDAY SCHOOL - 9:45 A.M. SUNDAY WORSHIP SERVICE 11:00 A.M.

Union Baptist Church

Dr. Kirkland R. Walton, Pastor Sundays:

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

Wednesday Youth & Adult Bible Study

Van Transportation Available, Call 804-794-5583

Riverview

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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)

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

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

“The Church With A Welcome”

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

SUNDAYS 8:00 a.m. .... Morning Worship 9:30 a.m. .... Church School 11:15 a.m. ...Morning Worship

Baptist Church

1408 W. Leigh Street • 358-6403

Dr. Alonza Lawrence Pastor

Sundays

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

Tuesdays

Bible Study 12 noon

November 16, 2015 • through • November 22, 2015

Christian Education Sunday November 22, 2015

9:30 a.m. – Sunday School Message by: Minister Hope Walker 11:00 a.m.

Morning Worship Message by: Rev. Cheryl Harris

Thursday, November 26, 2015 Noon – 3p.m.

Please join us at 11:30 a.m. for Thanksgiving Reflections Transportation will be provided!

1813 Everett Street Richmond, Virginia 23224 804-231-5884 Reverend Robert C. Davis, Pastor

1:30 p.m.

Bible Study

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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.

Radio Ministry: Sunday: 9:30 a.m. {1540 AM}

“MAKE IT HAPPEN”

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

2015 Theme: The Year of Moving Forward

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Wednesdays

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

Sundays

8:00 a.m.

Early Morning Worship 9:30 a.m.

Sunday School 11:00 a.m.

Morning Worship

Tuesdays

Noon Day Bible Study

Wednesdays

6:30 p.m.

Prayer and Praise 7:00 p.m.

Adult Bible Study

Wanted Church Director/Pianist

Wanted Church Director/Pianist

Established church is seeking an individual to direct and play for a Young Adult and Youth choirs. Requires the ability to play traditional and contemporary gospel music. Sight-reading is a plus however not required.

Contact E. Stanley at (804) 627-3349

Established church is seeking an individual to direct and play piano for a Mass choir. Requires the ability to play hymns, traditional and contemporary gospel music. Sight-reading is a plus however not required. Contact E. Stanley at (804) 627-3349

Thanksgiving Dinner

Dinner at Union Baptist Church

THURSDAYS

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

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Christian Education Week

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

Broad Rock Baptist Church

Moore Street Missionary

11:00 AM Mid-day Meditation

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Richmond Free Press

November 19-21, 2015

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Faith News/Directory

First Baptist Chesterfield project lacks black participation

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

First Baptist Church of South Richmond has poured nearly $6 million into buying land and developing its long-planned satellite sanctuary in Chesterfield County.

But as the 1,400-seat sanctuary nears completion, there is little evidence that black-owned businesses have been included in the work now underway at 6201-11 Iron Bridge Road.

From the general contractor to the plumbing and electrical firms that have worked on the site, public records show participation in the project only involves substantial white-owned firms.

For example, the general contractor is Joplin Construction Design & Management, a Missouri firm with a long track record in church construction, but with little evidence of black inclusion.

Company officials did not respond to requests for comment about participation of black-owned businesses as subcontractors.

According to the Chesterfield County building inspection office, only a few firms have subcontracts, and those include three from the Richmond area, Advanced Plumbing, Mid-Atlantic Controls and State Electric. None are black-owned companies.

And that’s a surprise, given the church’s leadership and its history as the oldest independent black church in what is now the city of Richmond.

Founded in 1821 in what was then the Town of Manchester in Chesterfield County, the church’s senior pastor, Dr. Dwight C. Jones, is also Richmond’s mayor, a post from which he has championed inclusion of black-owned and other minority companies in city projects.

The church’s full-time pastor is his son, Dr. Derik E. Jones, who also represents the city’s 8th District on the Richmond

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Work continues on the $5.3 million, 1,400-seat satellite sanctuary that First Baptist Church of South Richmond is developing on 23 acres in Chesterfield County. Location: 6201-11 Iron Bridge Road. The church’s main sanctuary is located in the 1500 block of Decatur Street, in the city.

School Board.

Asked about the inclusion of black-owned companies in the satellite sanctuary project, Dr. Derik Jones responded, “It is now our policy that we do not discuss private church endeavors in the public arena.”

Comments also were sought from the church’s five trustees.

Three could not be reached. Two others, both of whom own successful businesses, could not name any black-owned businesses involved in the project. However, the trustees have mostly been involved in the purchase of real estate and in the securing of lines

of credit with SunTrust Bank and Union Bank & Trust Co. The Free Press first raised the question of inclusion of black-owned businesses earlier this year as the project began to take shape.

Construction has been going on since the beginning of 2014 and has taken longer than expected. Church officials indicated last year that the space would open in late spring 2015. It is unclear why the work has been delayed.

First Baptist has not announced a date for the opening of its new sanctuary.

‘Faith and Public Safety’ forum Sunday

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

Sunday services will be unusual at St. Peter Baptist Church in Henrico County.

The pastor, Dr. Kirkland R. Walton, is replacing the traditional 11 a.m. service on Nov. 22 with a two-hour forum titled “Faith and Public Safety,” it has been announced.

“We’ll have an opening prayer, and then move into the program,” said W.A. “Gus” Smith, co-chairman of the church’s Social Justice Ministry, which developed the program to be held in the sanctuary at 2040 Mountain Road.

“With so many issues for people in our community, and so many getting shot and killed in connection with police officers, we need people of faith to be involved in public safety,” said Mr. Smith, who will moderate the forum.

He said the informational forum will focus on the role faith can play for all involved in the criminal justice system. It also will seek to educate the congregation on how Mr. Smith the criminal justice system works and how to handle themselves if stopped by police.

Forum speakers are to include Henrico Commonwealth’s Attorney Shannon L. Taylor; Henrico Police Officer Dennis O’Keefe, who also will demonstrate the use of a body camera; and Jeremiah “Jerry” Fitz, chief probation and parole officer for Henrico, Mr. Smith said. He said a defense attorney, who has yet to be named, also is to participate.

He said the program would include a question-and-answer session.

“We want to create a dialogue,” he said.

When public safety works, it’s a blessing, he said, citing the recent arrest of five people who allegedly were plotting to bomb black churches and synagogues in the Richmond area.

But there also are plenty of concerns about public safety operations with all of the news about police officers doing harm to unarmed suspects, he said.

Mr. Smith has firsth-and knowledge of how things can go very wrong for someone who gets arrested. He is the father of Kemba Smith Pradia, now best known as an advocate for fairness in sentencing.

Twenty years ago as a college student, she was sentenced to 24 years in federal prison for conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine. Released after President Clinton commuted her sentence in 2000, she has since traveled the country speaking about

ending mandatory minimum sentences that generated her long sentence.

The program is open to the public.

Further information: Mr. Smith, (804) 730-3810.

11:00 am Worship Service

Centennial Banquet

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Sunday, November 22, 2015 10:30 a.m.

Guest Speaker: Reverend F. Todd Gray Fifth Street Baptist Church

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

New Deliverance Evangelistic Church

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

Thanksgiving Day Service!

Presently worshipping every Sunday at

Laburnum Elementary School 500 Meriwether Avenue Henrico, Virginia 23222

November 26, 2015 10:00 AM

20 th NDEC Founders’

Theme: “You can make it through the holiday as a single parent”

Dr. & Mrs. Joe Ellison, Jr. Invites you to a Community-Wide Pre-Thanksgiving Service and Dinner

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

Sunday, November 22, 2015 – 11:00 a.m.

& Church Anniversary!

Sunday

Special Guest: Ms. Clovia Lawrence Radio Personality, 99.3/105.7 FM

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

Wednesday Services Senior Citizens

Performing: Special Music Ministry

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

For more information contact: Pastor Joe Ellison, Jr. at (804) 937-1356 or pastorjoeellison@yahoo.com

Sanctuary - All Are Welcome!

Bible Study Count: noonday Wednesday night 7 p.m. Prayer

Dinner and Food box distribution after service to those in attendance.

. Theme: , “Building Monuments for Present and Future Generations” “What Mean These Stones”

Saturday

8:30 a.m. Intercessory Prayer

Scripture: Joshua 4:21 - 24

Sunday, January 17 & 24, 2016 9:00 AM - NDEC

Saturday, January 23, 2016 You can now view Sunday Morning Service “AS IT HAPPENS” online! The Omni Richmond Hotel Also, for your convenience, 100 S. 12th St., Richmond, VA 23219 we now offer For more information and to purchase your banquet “full online giving.” tickets go to: www.ndec.net Visit www.ndec.net.

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Ebenezer Baptist Church 216 W. Leigh St. • Richmond, Va. 23220 • Tel: 804-643-3366 Fax: 804-643-3367 • Email: ebcoffice1@comcast.net • web: ebcrichmond.org

Thirty-first Street Baptist Church

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

Westwood Baptist Church 915 Glenburnie Road, Richmond, Virginia 23226 Office: (804) 288-3224 • Church: (804) 288-3223 www.westwoodbaptist-va.org

The Garland Saturday, November 21, 2015 10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

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Legal Notices/Employment Opportunities 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, December 7, 2015 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, December 14, 2015 at 6:00 p.m. in the Council Chamber on the Second Floor of City Hall, located at 900 East Broad Street, Richmond, Virginia, to consider the following ordinances: Ordinance No. 2015-245 To conditionally rezone the property known as 2801 East Main Street from the M-1 Light Industrial District to the B-5 Central Business District, upon certain proffered conditions. The Richmond Master Plan designates this property as MixedUse. Primary uses include 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. Typical zoning classifications that may accommodate this land use category are B-5 and UB. No residential density ranges are specified for this land use category.

Ordinance No. 2015-246 To conditionally rezone the property known as 2825 East Main Street from the M-1 Light Industrial District to the B-5 Central Business District, upon certain proffered conditions. The Richmond Master Plan designates this property as Public and Open Space. Primary uses include publicly owned and operated parks, recreation areas, open spaces, schools, libraries, cemeteries and other government and public service facilities. No residential density ranges are specified for this land use category.

Ordinance No. 2015-247 To authorize the special use of the property known as 202 Rear South Robinson Street for the purpose of permitting up to six single-family attached dwellings, upon certain terms and conditions. The City of Richmond’s Master Plan recommends Single family (Medium Density) land uses for the property.

The Master Plan defines the primary uses for this category as single-family and two-family detached and attached dwellings at densities of 8 to 20 units per acre, and includes residential support uses such as schools, places of worship, and neighborhood parks, among others. The proposed special use permit would allow a residential density of approximately 47 units per acre.

Ordinance No. 2015-248 To authorize the special use of the property known as 701 West Clay Street for the purpose of permitting up to three dwelling units and a restaurant, upon certain terms and conditions. The City of Richmond’s Master Plan designates the subject property at the intersection of West Clay and Munford Streets for Single Family (medium density) land use. Primary uses in this category are singlefamily and two-family dwellings, both detached and attached, at densities of 8 to 20 units per acre. Includes residential support uses such as schools, places of worship, neighborhood parks and recreation facilities, and limited public and semi-public uses. In addition, within the Near West District there are numerous, isolated single-site commercial uses or the traditional “corner store”.

Neighborhood commercial uses historically provided needed goods and services to adjacent residents, and when located in multi-story buildings were usually coupled with residential uses above.

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ington Avenue for the conversion of the existing building for either 40 or 42 multifamily dwelling units and accessory parking, upon certain terms and conditions, to reflect the subdivision of the property into two parcels, now known as 3101 Kensington Avenue and 3131 Kensington Avenue, and to remove the condition that all dwelling units shall be converted to condominiums within five years of the issuance of the certificate of occupancy. The properties are located in the R-6 single-family attached residential zoning district.

The City of Richmond’s Master Plan recommends Single-family (Medium Density) land use for the property. The Master Plan defines the primary uses for this category as singlefamily and two-family detached and attached dwellings at densities of 8 to 20 units per acre, and includes residential support uses such as schools, places of worship, and neighborhood parks, among others.

The current special use permit allows a density of approximately 22 units per acre, which would not change with the proposed amendment.

Ordinance No. 2015-251 To close to vehicular travel a portion of Brook Road located between West Broad Street and North Adams Street for the purpose of creating an urban plaza as part of a public art project.

Interested citizens who wish to speak will be given an opportunity to do so.

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

Jean V. Capel City Clerk

Divorce VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE CITY OF RICHMOND BONITA ROSS, Plaintiff v.

JERSON ROSS, Defendant.

Case No.: CL12003758-00 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 8th day of December, 2015 at 9:00 a.m. and protect his interests.

An Extract, Teste: EDWARD F. JEWETT, 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 ANGELO FAROUK, Plaintiff v.

DENISE RASAKARIASY, Defendant.

Case No.: CL15002441-00 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 4th day of January, 2016 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

Ordinance No. 2015-250 To amend and reordain Ord. No. 2001-262-248, adopted Sep. 10, 2001, which authorized the special use of the property known as 3101 Kens-

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER JOSEPH EJELE, Plaintiff v.

ELIZABETH EJELE, Defendant.

Case No.: CL15002425-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

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

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

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

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Ordinance No. 2015-249 To authorize the special use of the properties known as 8 West Cary Street and 10 West Cary Street for the purpose of offices and up to two accessory dwelling units, upon certain terms and conditions. The subject property falls within an Urban Center Area as established by the Richmond Downtown Plan.

Such areas demonstrate “a dense mix of office space, apartments, and retail located in four to six-story brick buildings that front the street.”

No residential density is specified for Urban Center Areas. The proposed special use permit would allow an accessory residential density of approximately 10 units per acre.

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(804) 798-9667 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER TAMMY OWEN-CREWS, Plaintiff v.

EDDIE CREWS, Defendant.

Case No.: CL15002404-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

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

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

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

SAMANTHA LEE PEREZ, Defendant.

Case No.: CL15-4317 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is for the petitioner to obtain a divorce from defendant.

It is ORDERED that the defendant, Samantha Lee Perez, whose last known address was 75 Hamilton Dr., Chester, Va. 23831 and whose whereabouts are now unknown, appear here on or before the 30th day of November, 2015 at 9:00 a.m. to protect her interests.

An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Susan Gerber, Esquire 206 DeSota Drive Richmond, Virginia 23229 (804) 741-3438 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER JOHN SUTTON, JR., Plaintiff v.

CLAUDIA TOLLIVER, Defendant.

Case No.: CL12001903-00 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 10th day of December, 2015 at 9:00 a.m. and protect her interests.

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

GILBERT RALLS, Defendant.

Case No.: CL15-2342 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 10th day of December, 2015 at 9:00 a.m. and protect his interests.

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

OLIVER BROWN, Defendant.

Case No.: CL15000155-00 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 10th day of December, 2015 at 9:00 a.m. and protect his interests.

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

CUSTODY virgiNia: iN thE JuvENiLE aND

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DOmEstic rELatiONs District cOurt Of the City of Richmond Commonwealth of Virginia, in re DEONTAY LAMARK WENDEL COTTMAN, Juvenile Case No. JJ011895-06, 07, 08 OrDEr Of puBLicatiON

The object of this suit is to: Terminate the residual parental rights (“RPR”) of John Cliffton Smith, (Father), and Unknown, (Father), of Deontay Lamark Wendel Cottman, child, DOB 4/15/2003, “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 John Cliffton Smith, (Father), and Unknown (Father), appear at the above-named Court and protect his/her interest on or before January 4, 2016 at 2:00 P.M. Matthew Morris, Esq. 730 E. Broad St., 8th Floor Richmond, Virginia 23219 804-646-3493

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

It is ORDERED that the defendant Unknown (Father), appear at the above-named Court and protect his/her interest on or before January 13, 2016 at 9:40 a.m.

Diane Abato, Esq. 730 E. Broad St., 8th Floor Richmond, Virginia 23219 804-646-3493

The object of this action is the adoption of Savannah Vershell Cronin, a child under the age of eighteen (18) years who is a “close relative” of Petitioners Ronald Clay Trent and Brenda Gayle Trent as defined by section 63.2-1242.1 of the Virginia Code.

It appearing by affidavit that the last address of Phillip Stephen Cronin, the birth father, is unknown, that Phillip Stephen Cronin’s present whereabouts are unknown, and diligence has been used by the Petitioners to ascertain in what county or city Phillip Stephen Cronin is located to no effect, it is ORDERED that Phillip Stephen Cronin appear before this Court on or before December 1st, 2015 at 9:00 a.m. and protect his interests herein.

An Extract Teste: YVONNE G. SMITH, Clerk I ask for this: W. Mark Dunn, Atty.

virgiNia: iN thE JuvENiLE aND DOmEstic rELatiONs District cOurt IN the COunty of Chesterfield Commonwealth of Virginia, in re aubrey strader addison hertsch ayden hertsch crystal & James Lacy v. emily strader Case Nos. JJ051300-06-00, 07-00 JJ056149-10-00, 11-00 JJ072869-10-00, 11-00 OrDEr Of puBLicatiON

The object of this suit is to: Terminate the parental rights of Emily Strader and Dennis Hertsch, Jr., who are the parents of Addison Hertsch (DOB: 7/13/05) and Ayden Hertsch (DOB: 9/15/09); and, to terminate the parental rights of Emily Strader and Robert Scheetz, who are the parents of Aubrey Strader (DOB: 9/28/02), pursuant to Virginia Code Section 16.1-283.

It is ORDERED that the defendant Emily Strader appear at the above-named Court and protect his or her interests on or before 01/13/2016, 10:00 AM. Jeremiah M. Yourth, Esq. Owen & Owens, PLC 15521 Midlothian Tpke.

Ste 300 Midlothian, VA 22113 virgiNia: iN thE JuvENiLE aND DOmEstic rELatiONs District cOurt Of the City of Richmond Commonwealth of Virginia, in re KHALIL HAITI CARR, Juvenile Case No. J-84537-7 OrDEr Of puBLicatiON

The object of this suit is to: Terminate the residual parental rights (“RPR”) of Qhahhaar Simmons, the identified birth father of Khalil Haiti Carr and any other possible birth father of Khalil Haiti Carr, whose identity and whereabouts are unknown.

It is ORDERED that the defendant Qhahhaar Simmons appear at the above-named Court and protect his or her interests on or before December 22, 2015 at 11:00 A.M. Christopher M. Malone, Thompson McMullan, P.C., 100 Shockoe Slip, 3rd Floor Richmond, Virginia 23219 804-698-6231 virgiNia: iN thE JuvENiLE aND DOmEstic rELatiONs District cOurt IN the COunty of Chesterfield Commonwealth of Virginia, in re Milton Josue ramirez sandra maribel ramirez v. esteban ovidio del valle Case No. JJ087910-01-00, 02-00 OrDEr Of puBLicatiON

The object of this suit is to: (1) Determine custody of Milton Josue Ramirez (DOB: 11/25/98), whose mother is Sandra Maribel Ramirez, pursuant to Virginia Code Section 16.1-241A3 (2) To make factual findings that will permit Milton Josue Ramirez to apply for special immigrant juvenile status with the United States citizenship and immigration services pursuant to section 101 (A) (27)(J) of the immigration and nationality act, 8 USC section 1101(A)(27)(J), 8 C.F.R. Section 204.11

It is ORDERED that the defendant Esteban Ovidio Del Valle appear at the abovenamed Court and protect his or her interests on or before 01/20/2016, 9:00 AM. Eileen P. Blessinger, Esq. Blessinger Legal, PLLC 7389 Lee Hwy, Ste 320 Falls Church, VA 22042 virgiNia: iN thE JuvENiLE aND DOmEstic rELatiONs District cOurt Of the City of Richmond Commonwealth of Virginia, in re LAMONTE LEON CHARITY, Juvenile Case No. JJ085852-09-00 OrDEr Of puBLicatiON

The object of this suit is to: Terminate the residual parental rights (“RPR”) of Unknown, (Father), of Lamonte Leon Charity, child, DOB 11/14/2001, “RPR” means all rights and responsibilities remaining with parent after transfer of legal custody or guardianship of the person, Continued on next column

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE COUNTY OF HENRICO RONALD CLAY TRENT and brenda gayle trent, Petitioners.

In re: SAVANNAH VERSHELL CRONIN, Birth Certificate Registration No. 2934107 Registered in the Commonwealth of Virginia.

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Shaheen Law Firm, P.C. 8890 Three Chopt Road Richmond, VA 23229 (804) 474-9418 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE COUNTY OF HENRICO RONALD CLAY TRENT and brenda gayle trent, Petitioners.

In re: Aubrey nethaniel cronin, Birth Certificate Registration No. 4305485 Registered in the Commonwealth of Virginia.

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Trent as defined by section 63.2-1242.1 of the Virginia Code.

It appearing by affidavit that the last address of Phillip Stephen Cronin, the birth father, is unknown, that Phillip Stephen Cronin’s present whereabouts are unknown, and diligence has been used by the Petitioners to ascertain in what county or city Phillip Stephen Cronin is located to no effect, it is ORDERED that Phillip Stephen Cronin appear before this Court on or before December 1st, 2015 at 9:00 a.m. and protect his interests herein.

An Extract Teste: YVONNE G. SMITH, Clerk I ask for this: W. Mark Dunn, Atty.

Shaheen Law Firm, P.C. 8890 Three Chopt Road Richmond, VA 23229 (804) 474-9418

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D/M/WBE SUBCONTRACTORS/SUPPLIERS WANTED

T. A. Loving Company is seeking certified DBE, MBE, and WBE subcontractors and suppliers for the Ridge Water Pumping Station County of Henrico project which bids December 9, 2015 at 3:00 PM. Plans and specifications are available at the following locations: T.A. Loving Company, Goldsboro, NC and by visiting the Henrico County Electronic Documents Web portal at www.ebidexchange.com/henrico. Potential subcontracting opportunities include but are not limited to demolition, earthwork, erosion control, seeding/sodding, concrete (CIP), painting, electrical, HVAC, linework (Utility Pipeline), masonry, roofing, insulation, survey, fence and landscaping.

Please contact David Pittman (dpittman@taloving.com) if you are interested in submitting a proposal on any portion(s) of this project. Contact via phone 919-734-8400; fax 919-736-2148; or email. All quotations will be accepted up to bid closing time on bid date. TA Loving Company is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer

TransiT sysTem

RideRship suRveyoR Part-Time: 20 - 29 hours per week Pay Rate: $12.00 Closes: November 30, 2015

GRTC Transit System in Richmond, Virginia seeks a motivated individual, at least 21 years of age, for a part-time Surveyor position to assist in route development and service delivery enhancements. This position is responsible for conducting bus surveys and the recording and reporting of ridership activity. The ideal candidate must have the ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing. A valid driver’s license required. The successful candidate will have excellent customer service skills and the ability to communicate with the public. Candidates must have a high school diploma or equivalent.

The ability to perform basic math computations is required. Candidates may apply online at www. ridegrtc.com. A pre-employment drug screening will be required. GRTC is an equal opportunity employer with a drug-free work environment.

J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College is the third largest community college in Virginia and offers a variety of programs and services to the residents of the City of Richmond and surrounding counties.

Annually, our three campuses serve over 20,000+ credit students and provide training for an additional 15,000 students through the Community College Workforce Alliance. Over the years, we have educated more than 300,000 people in the Richmond area.

The College is seeking applicants who share in its commitment to students and teamwork. The College supports a culture of life-long learning, celebrating its diversity, and recruiting and retaining star quality employees.

The College is excited to announce part-time teaching opportunities for Spring 2016 and Summer 2016.

For specific teaching disciplines and information on how to apply, please visit the college's website: www.reynolds.edu.

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

The City of Richmond is seeking to fill the following position: Equipment Operator II 30M00000194 Dept of Parks, Recreation, and Community Facilities Apply by 11/29/2015 Human Resources Consultant 12M00000025 Department of Human Resources Apply by 11/22/2015 Trades Supervisor II - Storm Water Public Utilities 35M00000837 Apply by 11/29/15 ****************** 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

Nursing Instructor (Position #GO265) RE-ANNOUNCEMENT (J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College, Richmond, VA). Master’s degree in Nursing from a nationally accredited college or university. An unrestricted Registered Nurse’s license. Minimum of two (2) years of mental health nursing experience or its equivalent within the past five (5) years. Preemployment security screening is required.

TYPE OF APPOINTMENT: Restricted full-time, nine-month teaching faculty-ranked appointment.

Salary commensurate with the education and experience of the applicant. Salary range: $42,501$71,595. Approximate maximum hiring salary: $57,855. Additional information is available at the College's website: www.reynolds.edu.

APPLICATION PROCESS: Application reviews will begin NOVEMBER 30, 2015 and will be accepted until the position is filled.

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

Electronic/ Web Services Librarian (Position #FA393) (J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College, Richmond, VA) Master’s degree in Library and Information Science from an ALA accredited school.

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

Salary commensurate with the education and experience of the applicant. Salary range: $54,961$105,812. Approximate maximum hiring salary: $65,000. Additional information is available at the College's website: www.reynolds.edu.

APPLICATION PROCESS: Application reviews will begin JANUARY 7, 2016, and will be accepted until the position is filled.

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

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