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FCC considers ban on Washington NFL team name Reuters

The FCC, which enforces broadcast indecency violations, has received a petition from legal activist John Banzhaf III, asking that regulators strip Washington radio station WWXX-FM of its broadcasting license when it comes up for renewal for using the name.

Mr. Banzhaf says the word is racist, deroga-

tory, profane and hateful, making its use “akin to broadcasting obscenity.”

“We’ll be looking at that petition, we will be dealing with that issue on the merits and we’ll be responding accordingly,” FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler told reporters.

“There are a lot of names and descriptions

that were used over time that are inappropriate today. And I think the name that is attributed to the Washington football club is one of those,” Wheeler added.

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Washington The Federal Communications Commission is considering whether to punish broadcasters for using the moniker of the Washington NFL team, a word many consider a slur to Native Americans, the agency’s chairman indicated Tuesday.

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First family in danger Secret Service head resigns amid White House security breaches Free Press wire reports

WASHINGTON The director of the U.S. Secret Service, who faced blistering criticism for her agency’s string of breakdowns jeopardizing the security of President Obama and his family, resigned Wednesday.

Julia Pierson, 55, stepped down amid mounting pressure from Democrats and Republicans. She had led the agency for the last 16 months.

“I think this lady needs to go,” Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., said Wednesday morning.

The ranking member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee said he had trouble sleeping Tuesday night after hearing Ms. Pierson’s testimony before the committee.

The criticism of the Secret Service came to a head after revelations that the man who breached security at the White House on Sept. 19 penetrated much farther into the building than previously disclosed.

“How on earth did it happen?” asked committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif. He stressed the fact that Omar Gonzalez, an Army veteran of the Iraq War, had breached at least five rings of security at the White House.

Mr. Gonzalez, 42, was charged with unlawfully entering a restricted building or grounds while carrying a deadly or dangerous weapon. Officials said he was carrying a knife when he jumped the White House fence, sprinted across the lawn and entered the Executive Mansion.

A prosecutor said in court last week that officers found more

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Secret Service Director Julia Pierson testifies Tuesday on Capitol Hill.

than 800 rounds of ammunition, two hatchets and a machete in Mr. Gonzalez’s car.

A Secret Service official who spoke on condition of anonymity said an alarm box near the front entrance of the White House had been muted when Mr. Gonzalez entered the Executive Mansion, according to The Washington Post.

Mr. Gonzalez was previously arrested in July with a sniper rifle and a map on which the Executive Mansion was marked, the prosecutor said.

The Post reported that Mr. Gonzalez ran past a sentry immediately inside the door, past the stairway leading up to the first family’s living quarters and through the East Room, before an off-duty Secret Service agent tackled him.

An initial statement from the Secret Service, approved by Ms. Pierson, claimed that Mr. Gonzalez was apprehended just inside the doors to the North Portico.

The alarm box near the entrance, designed to alert guards to an intruder, had been muted at what officers believe was the request of the usher’s office, the Post reported, citing the Secret Service official.

The officer posted inside the door appeared to be delayed in learning the intruder was about to come through, the Post reported. Officers are trained to lock the front door immediately if they learn of an intruder on the grounds.

Also revealed this week is the fact that a gun-carrying felon rode an elevator with President Obama and his protective detail — just three days before the fence-jumping incident.

That security breach occurred while the president was in Atlanta to discuss the Ebola outbreak with officials from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

A private security contractor, working with the Secret Service advance team for the president’s trip, entered the elevator and began acting strangely, refusing to stop using a cellphone to record President Obama when ordered to do so.

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First Ebola case diagnosed in U.S. Health officials scramble to contain spread Free Press wire reports

By Joey Matthews

U.S. health care workers are scurrying to prevent the possible spread of the deadly Ebola virus in the wake of the first patient being diagnosed with the disease in the United States.

A man who flew from Liberia to Texas is infected with the deadly virus, health officials said Tuesday, a sign that the outbreak ravaging West Africa might be spreading globally.

The patient sought treatment six days after arriving in Texas on Sept. 20, said Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He is now in isolation at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas.

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Students protest VSU leadership

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

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U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Thomas J. Vilsack, left, and Richmond Schools Superintendent Dana T. Bedden converse while eating broccoli Monday at Carver Elementary School.

Carver Elementary School students eagerly filed through the cafeteria line.

The fare for their Monday lunch included healthy turkey sandwiches served on whole-grain bread, broccoli, oranges and apples, applesauce, fruit juices, water and milk. Bags of baked potato chips also were available.

Fifth-grade teacher Evette Cartwright smiled as she watched her students eat.

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School board flexes for more $

Confidence in Dr. Keith T. Miller’s leadership as president

By Jeremy M. Lazarus of Virginia State University appears to be quickly eroding as the university deals with a serious financial challenge brought The Richmond School Board quietly on by slumping enrollment.

This week, more than 200 students rallied on campus to is transforming itself from the weakling call for the removal of Dr. Miller and two other high-ranking of city politics.

After years of taking what City Hall school officials as sharp cuts in classes and programs impact has been willing to give and watching campus life.

“Time for a change” was one slogan on signs students dis- its share of the budget shrink, the School Board is using control of key properties played at the demonstration.

Behind the scenes, rumors are flying that the 15-member VSU to push its demands for more respect and board of visitors currently led by Harry Black, Richmond’s former for a bigger share of city resources.

“What do we get to benefit schools? chief financial officer and Cincinnati’s current city manager, are increasingly eager to see Dr. Miller move on.

Dr. Miller’s problem: A far steeper drop in enrollment than he had anticipated. Overall, the school has advised its board that 752 fewer students enrolled this year than in 2013.

That has translated into a loss to the school of millions of dollars in tuition, fees and payments for room and board.

And it has forced Dr. Miller into the unpleasant task of reducing spending on everything from academic programs to lawn mowing to close what is now a $19.5 million deficit, or 10.6 percent of the school’s 2014-15 budget.

Among other things, he has had to close dorms, shrink cafeteria services, cut classes, reduce or eliminate evening programs and keep at least 30 James Haskins/Richmond Free Press faculty positions vacant.

The State Fair of Virginia lights up the sky, as rides and colorful That also has made him un- concessions welcome revelers on a cool autumn night. The annual popular among students. VSU event runs through Sunday, Oct. 5, at Meadow Event Park in Caroline

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County. Hours: 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. today and Sunday; 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.

Friday and Saturday.

That’s the question we’re asking,” said Jeffrey M. Bourne, the School Board representative for the 3rd District and a deputy attorney general.

One example of the way the School Board is using its property power to make its point: The refusal to rubber-stamp the city’s plan to spend $21 million to build a new Overby-Sheppard Elementary School on North Side.

Insisting that the $21 million be spent for critical improvements to existing schools, the School Board simply has ignored requests from Mayor Dwight C. Jones’ administration to transfer the title to the current Overby-Sheppard building back to the city and to participate in planning for the new school.

That has stymied a school building project that Mayor Dwight C. Jones and the area’s council representative, Ellen F. Robertson, regard as a key to revitalizing

a big section of the Highland Park area of North Side.

Under state law, control of school real estate is vested in the board until it votes to terminate the use.

In an email to the Free Press, Glen Sturtevant Jr., the 1st District representative on the School Board, summed up what appears to be the board’s prevailing view. He stated that he opposes replacing Overby-Sheppard “when there are many other schools that are much older and in worse condition. I’d like to see us use our limited resources for the highest and best ends. For me, that means replacing and repairing our older schools first.”

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Search on for new NAACP executive director

By Joey Matthews

Speaking to a Free Press reporter prior to the Henrico The search is on for a new NAACP Freedom Fund and executive director at the VirAwards Banquet, Ms. Taylor ginia State Conference of the said she hopes to hire a new NAACP. executive director “as soon as State President Carmen Taypossible.” lor confirmed Saturday to the She said she and the state Free Press that she is officially NAACP vice president, treasurer, looking for a replacement for secretary and youth president Ms. Taylor former state Executive Director will submit names of several King Salim Khalfani, who was fired in candidates to the executive committee, March without notice. which will decide on the new hire.

She said she gained the authority to Ms. Taylor said the new executive direcconduct the search when the state execu- tor would work out of the same Graham tive committee approved the search at its Please turn to A3 Sept. 20 meeting.

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Oct. 14 deadline to register to vote in Nov. election If you want to vote in the Nov. 4 general election, you have to be registered.

Good news: You still have time to get on the voting rolls.

The deadline to register is nearly two weeks away — Tuesday, Oct. 14. Those who are registered by that date can help fill a U.S. Senate seat and seats in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Voters also will fill some vacancies in the General Assembly and in local offices.

State and local voting officials are providing lots of ways to register to vote and providing opportunities to get an ID that is now required to cast a ballot.

You can now register online at www.Vote.Virginia.gov, a state-supported website. Or you can: • Download a voter registration form from the websites of any local voter registration office, including those in Richmond and Henrico and Chesterfield counties.

• Stop by any DMV office or any Social Services offices and fill out a voter registration form there.

• Register in person at the offices of the local voter registrar.

• Get a registration form from one of the volunteers who are going door-to-door or passing them out at public events.

For example, three groups — Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity and the Urban League of Greater Richmond Young Professionals — will be registering voters this weekend at the 2nd Street Festival in Downtown.

If you lack a valid photo ID, such as a driver’s license, a student ID or one issued by a government agency, every local registrar’s office can issue one to use for voting purposes.

According to the Richmond general registrar’s office, about 5,000 people, or fewer than 4 percent of the 130,000 people on the city’s voting rolls, lack a driver’s license or a student ID. Here are the addresses of area voter registrars’ offices where you can register to vote or get a photo ID: Richmond — City Hall, 900 E. Broad St., (804) 646-5950.

Chesterfield — 9848 Lori Road, (804) 748-1471.

Henrico — Western Government Center, 4301 E. Parham Road, (804) 501-4347; Eastern Government Center, 3820 Nine Mile Road, (804) 501-4347. — JEREMY M. LAZARUS

Judge dismisses suit against schools A $20 million federal lawsuit that alleged abuse of 20 mentally disabled children in schools in Chesterfield, Henrico and two other counties has been thrown out.

U.S. District Judge Robert E. Payne called the allegations vague and unclear in dismissing the suit that Midlothian attorney Charlotte P. Hodges brought on behalf of the children and their families earlier this year.

Describing the suit as the “quintessential ‘shotgun pleading,’” Judge Payne wrote in his dismissal order last week that “it is almost impossible to ascertain precisely what type of claim is asserted against which party, much less what it is that the allegedly infringing party has done, or not done, to give rise to the … claims.”

The judge dismissed the suit without prejudice, meaning it could be refiled. Parents also could file individual claims. Ms. Hodges did not respond to a request for comment on her next step, if any.

The suit, one of the largest of its kind in Virginia, alleged that some students were locked in classrooms and left unattended.

The suit also claimed some students were bullied or were not provided an appropriate education as required by federal and state law.

The lawsuit named 35 defendants, including the Virginia Department of Education; public school divisions in Henrico, Chesterfield, Essex and Nottoway counties; and individual teachers and principals.

The state, as well as the local school divisions, sought the dismissal, responding that the claims were without merit, the schools were immune from such suits and the plaintiffs failed to go through the schools’ administrative process before suing.

— JEREMY M. LAZARUS

Flu season starts

Flu season is here.

That means it’s time to get your flu shot.

The season begins in October and can last into April, said George Jones, a spokesman for the Richmond City Health District.

“Our district epidemiologist says influenza virus activity in Richmond has been confirmed,” Mr. Jones said. “Therefore, the flu virus is present locally.”

Vaccinations against the influenza virus are recommended for everyone age 6 months and older, he told the Free Press.

Mr. Jones encourages residents to buck the data that show fewer than half of Americans are being vaccinated against the flu.

The flu vaccination already is available in most area pharmacies, he said.

Mr. Jones anticipates that vaccines will be available at the Richmond City Health District, 400 E. Cary St., by the middle of this month.

Appointments for vaccination can be made by calling (804) 482-5500.

In addition, the health district will host events in the community to provide flu vaccinations. Details: www.vdh.virginia. gov/lhd/richmondcity.

At press time, officials had not yet determined whether patients would be charged for the flu shots.

The flu kills an average of more than 30,000 people a year in the United State, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Especially vulnerable are children younger than 5, adults 65 and older, pregnant women and people with chronic health conditions such as respiratory and heart conditions, diabetes or weakened immune systems.

For the first time, the CDC recommends children ages 2 to 8 receive a nasal spray flu vaccine rather than the shot because evidence shows it’s more effective at preventing the flu.

Anyone 65 and older should get a one-time vaccination with the combination pneumococcal vaccine Prevnar 13, which protects against 13 strains of the bacteria, said CDC Director Thomas Frieden.

Seniors also should get a second, one-time vaccination known as polysaccharide, which protects against 23 strains, he added.

They should be administered about six months apart to increase their effectiveness.

The vaccinations can further reduce the risk of infections, Dr. Frieden said. — JOEY MATTHEWS

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Cityscape Slices of life and scenes in Richmond

Travelers soon will have access to inexpensive overnight accommodations in Downtown. Workers are busy on the HI Richmond Hostel. Location: 7 N. 2nd St. The building, designed to provide affordable food and lodging for students, workers, travelers and others, is scheduled for completion by summer 2015. Hostelling International USA is raising funds to complete the project.

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Union official urges Henrico NAACP to continue pushing for equal justice

By Joey Matthews

“Racism and segregation have been dressed up so well.”

It’s just a little harder for some to spot.

That observation was offered by Clayola Brown, president of the A. Philip Randolph Institute, in remarks to 140 people attending the Henrico NAACP’s 137th Freedom Fund and Awards Banquet.

The event was held Saturday at the 147-year-old Quioccasin Baptist Church in Henrico County.

Ms. Brown, who also is international vice president at Workers United-Service Employees International Union, made note of several inequities affecting the African-American community that are being used “to push us back to where we were in the 1940s and ’50s.”

Among them: • Requiring photo IDs to vote and other impediments to casting ballots.

• The reinstitution of neighborhood schools.

• Unequal pay to African-American workers.

The theme of the banquet, emceed by WWBT 12 and Fox TV news anchor Diane Walker, was “NAACP Re-energizing for the Struggle.”

Ms. Brown said the NAACP and other civil rights groups must continue to press to ensure young people will have access to good jobs if they work hard and earn good grades in school.

“We cannot make that promise now,” she said.

The 66-year-old Charleston, S.C., native emphasized the need to “keep young people strong and engaged” and to “let young people lead us” into the future. They are “so much quicker than we are,” she said, and much better at texting, tweeting, Instagramming and using other social media, all of which are key tools to growing social justice organizations.

Ms. Brown lamented the rising cost of a college education and the declining number of scholarships available to AfricanAmericans, as well as skyrocketing student debt.

While she spoke warmly and drew lots of laughs from the appreciative audience, Ms. Brown made it clear she was serious about her message. She said the nation’s promise of equal opportunity and equal justice remains broken.

“The promise is outstanding and the debt has not been paid,” said Ms. Brown, who is a former member of the national NAACP board of directors.

Ms. Brown is the first female to serve as president of the Washington-based A. Philip Randolph Institute, which was started in 1965 to represent black trade unionists.

She recalled climbing a tree with a friend to listen to speakers such as A. Philip Randolph and Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee chairman John Lewis at the historic 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Mr. Lewis now serves in the U.S. House of Representatives from Georgia.

“They were having the same discussion then that we’re starting to have today,” Ms. Brown said.

Mr. Randolph was a leader in the Civil Ms. Brown Rights Movement and the American labor movement. He organized and led the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, the first predominately black labor union formed in 1925. Now deceased, Mr. Randolph was one of the organizers of the historic march.

Ms. Brown recalled her first introduction to the NAACP at age 6. She said she didn’t understand the significance of being presented with a NAACP membership as a Christmas gift by her grandmother.

Six decades later, Ms. Brown leads an organization whose mission is to advocate for workers rights across the nation. The 136 chapters in 32 states she oversees at the A. Philip Randolph Institute are busy coordinating efforts to “get people to the polls” for November’s midterm elections.

Ms. Brown encouraged NAACP members and others to help register people to vote or give someone a ride to the polls on Election Day. “We’ve got to get to work,” she said, of the importance of boosting voter registration and turnout.

Ms. Brown brought an accomplished resume to Saturday’s banquet.

She gained a zeal for labor activism at an early age when she campaigned alongside her mother to organize the Manhattan Shirt Factory in Charleston. She has led numerous other labor and other social justice causes since then.

Among those: She serves under Labor Secretary Thomas E. Perez as a representative on the Labor Advisory Committee for Trade Negotiations and Trade Policy at the invitation of President Obama. She was appointed to the National Commission on Employment Policy by former President Bill Clinton for two terms.

State NAACP President Carmen Taylor of Hampton kicked off the banquet with brief remarks. She said the state’s largest civil rights organization would be “vigilant and on the battlefield for justice for everyone.”

She said, “The NAACP is still relevant,” and vowed to fight for full implementation of the Affordable Care Act, increased educational opportunities and to remain “a voice for the voiceless.”

Also at the banquet, Frank J. Thornton, the Fairfield District representative on the Henrico County Board of Supervisors, was honored with the NAACP Community Award.

Former Henrico NAACP President Lucy Cordell Wells also was recognized with the NAACP Achievement Award.

Others honored by the Henrico NAACP chapter led by President E. Drusilla Bridgeforth: Membership chairperson Artenna Taylor with the Presidential Award; secretary Sarah Thomas-Russell with the Annie E. Hewlett Award; and VCU student Kaylyn Hardy of the Henrico Youth Council with the Educational Award.

Other officials at the banquet included state Delegates Joe Morrissey and John O’Bannon and his wife, Pat, a member of the Henrico Board of Supervisors; Henrico School Superintendent Patrick Kinlaw; Lamont Bagby, Fairfield District representative on the Henrico School Board; and Henrico Commonwealth’s Attorney Shannon Taylor.

Legendary Richmond organist Harold Lilly entertained banquet attendees during the event.

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Road office formerly used by Mr. Khalfani across from Virginia Union University on North Side.

Ms. Taylor said she’s looking for a person with “strong organizational skills,” with the ability “to articulate and communicate with the community,” someone who can “make presentations to strengthen our units” and someone who can learn the NAACP way if they come from outside the organization.

Ms. Taylor also said the state organization is seeking a lobbyist to advocate for NAACP issues at the 2015 General Assembly.

The executive committee has authorized the hire, she said.

Ms. Taylor has declined repeated Free Press requests to explain the reason for Mr. Khalfani’s dismissal after leading the organization for 15 years.

Mr. Khalfani has opened a consulting business since his ouster.

Holder’s exit leaves void on civil rights issues Free Press wire reports

The departure of U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder deprives the administration of President Obama of a powerful voice on civil rights.

It also sets up a potentially bruising Senate fight to confirm a successor who can tackle a long list of pending challenges at the Justice Department.

Mr. Holder’s nearly six-year term, marked by civil rights advances and frequent fights with Congress, made him one of the nation’s longest serving attorneys general.

He announced last week that he will be stepping down, but said he will remain in office until a successor is nominated and confirmed.

Civil rights advocates fear his exit leaves a hard-to-fill hole on President Obama’s team when it comes to events such as in Ferguson, Mo., where days of protests and the shooting of two police officers followed the fatal police shooting of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown.

Mr. Holder also took the lead in challenging laws in some states requiring voters to show photo identification, measures he said would prevent black and Latino voters from going to the polls.

His supporters are worried that his work on voting rights, sentencing reform and addressing racial profiling measures used by police could fall by the wayside when his yet-to-bedetermined successor sets a new set of priorities — particularly as the administration focuses on counterterrorism and the threat posed by Islamic

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Attorney General Eric Holder, right, and Raymond H. Boone, the late editor/publisher of the Richmond Free Press, in 2010.

State militants.

The next attorney general will face additional challenges, including balancing privacy rights against government surveillance efforts and deciding whether to continue attempts to prosecute former spy agency Edward

Snowden, now living in Russia, for revealing surveillance secrets.

His successor also will oversee a series of cases against banks and individuals over the manipulation of foreign exchange rates, and must decide whether to continue Mr. Holder’s

effort to scale back the prosecution of nonviolent drug offenders.

“We always thought that he was able to say the things that (President) Obama could not say,” said Barbara Arnwine, president of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights.

“We’ve always seen him as an important spokesperson for the administration, and that role should not go unfulfilled.”

In a speech choked with emotion, Mr. Holder recounted how he had been part of Team Obama since his friend was a “young senator from Illinois” launching “an improbable, idealistic effort” to become president.

President Obama stuck with Mr. Holder even as he became a lightning rod for Republican criticism of his administration.

“We have been great colleagues, but the bonds between us are much deeper than that,” the attorney general told the president. “In good times and in bad, in things personal and in things professional, you have been there for me.”

Over the years, both men have spoken about racism they have experienced in their own lives.

Before taking office, the nation’s first black president wrote, “Dreams from My Father,” a memoir on racial identity. But since taking office, he has often shied away from talking publicly about race.

By contrast, Mr. Holder — who worked for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund early in his career — has been more outspoken. His sister-in-law, Vivian Malone Jones, became a hero in the desegregation movement of the 1960s

after she was blocked from entering the University of Alabama when she arrived for classes.

“I think in his own way, using his role as attorney general, (Mr.) Holder has addressed issues that remain off limits,” said Wade Henderson, president of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights.

Mr. Holder talked openly about his own experiences with racial profiling after Trayvon Martin, a black teenager in Florida, was shot in 2012 — days before President Obama spoke out.

The attorney general talked about the humiliation of being pulled over and searched on the New Jersey Turnpike when he was not speeding, and about being stopped by police while running in Washington’s tony Georgetown neighborhood.

In August, after Mr. Brown was shot and killed by a white police officer in Ferguson — sparking nights of riots — President Obama sent Mr. Holder to meet with community members.

Mr. Holder vowed the Justice Department would investigate whether criminal and civil charges were warranted, but the probe is unlikely to be complete before his departure.

A White House official said President Obama has not made a decision on a Holder replacement. Names floated for the job include Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, Solicitor General Don Verrilli, former Associate Attorney General Tom Perrelli, California Attorney General Kamala Harris, Brooklyn U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch and Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick.

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name to be indecent, and thus impose a de facto ban on it for television and radio broadcasts.

The Richmond Free Press expunged the name from its news and editorial columns beginning October 2013. Raymond H. Boone, the late editor/publisher of the newspaper that has been nationally recognized for its justice efforts, asserted at the time that the name is insulting, racist and divisive and would give rise to the regeneration of despicable and derogatory names used for other groups.

In June, a panel of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office canceled the team’s trademark

registration because it considers its name and logo disparaging. The team has appealed the decision in federal court.

Despite protests, vigorous lobbying and even intervention from President Obama, team owner Daniel Snyder has vowed not to change the name of his National Football League team.

Some TV football analysts, including CBS’ Phil Simms and Super Bowl-winning coach Tony Dungy, have said they will no longer use the term.

Half of the U.S. Senate asked the NFL to endorse a name change and the Washington Post editorial board also has said it will stop using the team’s name.

Inc., a Petersburg-based nonprofit Henry L. Marsh III served as mentoring and tutoring group that Richmond’s first black mayor is staging the affair. during part of his 25-year tenure The event: The Bridge of Hope on City Council. Then he spent Partners Appreciation Banquet, nearly 23 years in the state Senscheduled for 6 p.m. Friday, Oct. ate representing the Richmond10, at the Omni Hotel in DownPetersburg area. town.

Admirers of Mr. Marsh are Tickets are $65, said Ms. Bailey, preparing a tribute dinner-dance for who added that the formal affair the retired civil rights lawyer who also is doubling as a fundraiser resigned from the Senate in July to Mr. Marsh for Core Educational. accept an appointment to the state Along with honoring Mr. Marsh, the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board.

“His accomplishments and sacrifice in event will include games, a silent auction civil rights, the law and the Senate stand as and entertainment, she said.

For tickets and further information: Dr. a beacon to all who desire constructive improvements to the community,” said Corine Sylvia Tucker, (804) 926-0248; Cassandra Bailey, an attorney and chief executive of- Conover, (804) 861-8899; or Mary Ruffin, ficer of Core Educational Institute Bridge (804) 720-3878.

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senior Anthony Jackson gave voice to that opinion at Tuesday evening’s rally in blasting Dr. Miller and his administration for orchestrating cuts that Mr. Jackson said hit hardest “at the services that we, as students, pay for.”

“The school’s leadership does not have its pulse on the needs, values and well-being” of students, Mr. Jackson said, noting that Dr. Miller and his administration have “promoted solutions without seeking the input of students.”

Dr. Miller’s situation is not unusual. Colleges and universities across the country are wrestling with the financial impact from falling enrollments after two decades of growth.

The result is often a backlash from students and faculty opposed to the changes caused by shrinking dollars.

Even without the student losses, VSU, like other state-supported schools, already was expecting to receive less state funding as the Dr. Miller result of state revenue shortfalls.

Still, Dr. Miller seems to have contributed to the loss of trust by failing to communicate the pressing troubles to his board, sources said.

As late as the end of August after classes had begun, he and his administration were still downplaying the financial problem.

David Meadows, vice president of administration and finance, at that time was reporting to board members that the school was projecting a $5.3 million deficit and offering assurances that steps were being taken to deal with the shortfall, though he offered few specifics. At the time, he estimated that the school would see only a $1.6 million revenue decline from reduced enrollment and $3.7 million in reduced state revenue.

It wasn’t until last week that students and board members learned that VSU is facing a deficit nearly four times larger, requiring far deeper cuts. Even at that point, Dr. Miller did not fully share his

program for spending cuts with students or most others at the school, several students who attended the rally told the Free Press. They said the lack of information was a main reason for the rally.

The information on the deficit came from an updated report that Mr. Meadows made to the board Sept. 25 detailing the grim situation.

His report showed that the deficit exploded in large part because the approved budget included a wild overestimate of the number of students expected to live in school dorms and apartments and eat in the school’s cafeterias this school year.

The budget estimated that 3,763 students would pay room and board during the 2014-15 school year, but only 2,786 students

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A supervisor from the contractor’s firm fired him immediately upon learning of his behavior — and then confiscated his firearm.

Prior to the supervisor’s action, the president’s protective detail was unaware that the contractor was carrying a gun.

It was later revealed that the man had three convictions for assault and battery.

“Words aren’t strong enough for the outrage I feel for the safety of the president and his family,” said Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on National Security.

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Army veteran Omar Gonzalez breached at least five rings of security before he was tackled by an off-duty Secret Service agent.

“His life was in danger. This country would be a different world today if (the contractor) had pulled out his gun.”

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free breakfasts and lunches to the entire student body at Carver and the city’s 43 other public schools.

In the past, free breakfasts and lunches were offered only to students from lowincome families. Those numbers were high in the city schools.

“The children come to school happier and ready to work,” Ms. Cartwright told a Free Press reporter. She is in her ninth year teaching at the Leigh Street school. “They come to school on time and they’re not as angry, which helps the teacher manage the classroom better.

“This has changed the climate and culture of the students. It has helped Carver a great deal.”

On Monday, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Thomas J. Vilsack visited Carver to recognize RPS’ efforts and join a roundtable discussion on the new Community Eligibility Provision, which allows qualifying schools to forego individual applications for free and reduced-price breakfast and lunch and offer free meals to all students.

He was joined by state and local officials, including RPS Superintendent Dana T. Bedden, Virginia First Lady Dorothy McAuliffe, Virginia Secretary of Education Anne Holton, U.S. Rep. Robert C. “Bobby” Scott, state Sen. A. Donald McEachin of Henrico County, state Delegate Jennifer L. McClellan of Richmond and Richmond School Board Vice President Kristen N. Larson.

Dr. Bedden called the district’s decision to enroll in the program a no-brainer.

“If you’re hungry and your stomach’s growling, how are you paying attention? How do you focus?” he rhetorically asked.

In Richmond last year, 74 percent of students qualified for free or reducedprice meals.

The program has been rolled out nationally since it was instituted in 2010, with participation by 4,000 schools in 11 states.

It became available in the other 39 states, including Virginia, July 1.

Thomas E. Kranz, assistant superinten-

is not at the top.

Separately, the School Board also has indicated that the mayor will have to come up with more money for education if he wants to receive the board’s support for his plan to redevelop two East End public housing communities, Creighton and Whitcomb courts.

The mayor is requesting, as part of that effort, that the School Board turn over control of two vacant school buildings that have become eyesores, the old Armstrong High building at 1611 N. 31st St. near Nine Mile Road, and the former Whitcomb Court Elementary at 2100 Sussex St. in the public housing community.

Despite the condition of the buildings, the School Board has yet to declare those buildings surplus and cede the title back to the city.

The board is expected to consider the proposal to do so at its next meeting, Monday, Oct. 6, but it is not yet clear that a majority of the board’s nine members supports the mayor’s request.

Several board members want the school

Testifying Tuesday, Ms. Pierson called the breakdown in White House security “unacceptable,” but called for most of the hearing to be closed to the public.

After the public hearing Tuesday, the committee held a classified hearing on the issue.

Ms. Pierson joined the Secret Service in 1984. President Obama named her the agency’s first female director last year.

After Ms. Pierson’s resignation, Joseph Clancy was appointed interim director.

Mr. Clancy was special agent in charge of the Secret Service’s Presidential Protective Division before retiring from the agency three years ago. He was one of the agents who famously jogged with President Bill Clinton.

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U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Thomas J. Vilsack enjoys broccoli Monday while touting a federal nutrition program at Carver Elementary School.

dent for support services, estimated that federal funding to provide the meals would bring an additional $80,000 into the Richmond school district’s coffers this year.

“Anything we can do to remove barriers is the right thing to do,” Dr. Bedden said.

“If we didn’t do this, we would be holding kids hostage to adult issues.”

Secretary Holton pointed out that more than half of the 80 or so schools in the state participating in the program are in Richmond.

She said she anticipates “hundreds” more schools in the state’s 132 school divisions will participate in the nutrition program once they observe RPS’ success story.

Secretary Holton said some districts have been slow to join the effort because of concerns about the effect it could have on their local budgets.

Secretary Vilsack asked for suggestions from panel members of how the federal government could “tweak” the program to make it better.

Rep. Scott, whose district includes parts of Richmond, said afterward he strongly supports the nutrition program because it ensures students from low-income communities will not have to “go without” nutritious

meals as they seek an education.

Ms. Larson told the Free Press the initiative is a win-win situation for the city.

“It provides more meals to kids who need them and it reduces our costs,” she said of the federal reimbursement.

“This way, we know they’re getting some sort of balanced meal before they start their school day and then they’re getting recharged at lunchtime,” Ms. Larson added.

After the roundtable discussion, Secretary Vilsack headed to the cafeteria packed with dining students. There, he conversed with Dr. Bedden as the two enjoyed broccoli prepared by cafeteria staff.

He announced a $31.5 million federal grant program that will help participants in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, known as SNAP, gain better access to affordable foods like fruits and vegetables.

The secretary said the program, known as The Food Insecurity Nutrition Incentive, would link local farmers, food markets, food pantries and others to increase the purchase of fruits and vegetables by SNAP participants.

Mr. Vilsack said he expects that program to go into effect in early 2015.

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currently are doing so, or 977 fewer students. That overestimate created a $12.1 million reduction in budgeted revenues.

In his comments to the board, Mr. Meadows blamed tighter federal policies that have made it harder to get college loans.

He told the board that up to 800 more students would be on campus if they or their parents had been able to qualify for $3.4 million in federal education loans. He said those students would have generated about $14 million in fresh revenue.

However, board sources said neither he nor Dr. Miller proposed solutions to replace the federal dollars, such as running a fundraising campaign or temporarily allowing students who made less than full payment to attend.

system to receive a chunk of the current value of the buildings. The city assesses the Armstrong building at $7.3 million and the Whitcomb building at nearly $2 million.

Those School Board members are not impressed with the Jones administration’s offer to provide free office space on South Side for a school program.

“Our school system has serious needs,” said one School Board member, who spoke on condition of anonymity. “We just can’t afford to give the buildings away.”

The offer of free rent is “worth about $30,000 a year,” the member said, “and that’s just not enough.”

The city is most eager to gain control of the old Armstrong property that is designated to be bulldozed and become a site for new apartments where some residents of Creighton could be relocated to clear the way for redevelopment of the nearby public housing units.

Peter H. Chapman, the deputy chief administrative officer for economic development, said the property is essential to the city’s plans. If the School Board fails to transfer control, he said the city would

have a more difficult time competing for a $30 million federal grant to jump-start the redevelopment of Creighton.

The School Board already has blocked one job-creating project because it felt that it would not receive enough money for the property to benefit the school system.

The board refused to transfer to the city the title to an aging warehouse on Arlington Road near The Diamond baseball stadium.

The Jones administration wanted to sell the building to a growing, Richmond-based furniture maker that has been seeking more room for its offices and operations and to add more employees.

The company, McKinnon & Harris, offered to buy the warehouse for its appraised value, $1.42 million, all of which would have gone to the School Board to use for educational purposes and to renew old school buildings.

Believing the warehouse could fetch a higher price, the board declined to designate it as surplus. After a year of trying, Mayor Jones withdrew his request to City Council last month seeking approval of the sale of the property to the furniture company.

Health care officials and lawmakers have been bracing for the eventuality that a patient would arrive on U.S. shores undetected, testing the preparedness of the nation’s health care system. On Tuesday, Dr. Frieden and other health authorities said they were taking every step possible to ensure the virus did not spread widely.

“It is certainly possible someone who had contact with this individual could develop Ebola in the coming weeks,” Dr. Frieden said at a news conference. “I have no doubt we will stop this in its tracks in the United States.”

Dr. Frieden said a handful of people, mostly family members, might have been exposed to the patient after he fell ill and that health authorities were tracking down anyone who might have had contact with the man. The Dallas Fire-Rescue crew members who transported the man to the hospital have tested negative for the virus, according to the CDC. They have been quarantined at home for the next 21 days during the incubation period for the disease.

Dr. Frieden said there was likely no threat to any airline passengers because the patient had no symptoms during his flight. Asked whether the patient was a U.S. citizen, Dr. Frieden described the person as a visitor to family in the country.

The disease has been ravaging Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea in West Africa. More than 6,500 cases have been diagnosed and at least 3,091 people have died from Ebola in the worst outbreak on record. The CDC has warned that the number of infections could rise to as many as 1.4 million people by early next year without a massive global intervention to contain the virus.

U.S. hospitals have treated and released three aid workers who were infected in Africa and flown back to the United States under strict medical supervision in a specially outfitted airplane.

A fourth person is being treated at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, and a fifth person who might have been exposed to the virus is under observation at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md. President Obama discussed the Dallas case with Dr. Frieden on Tuesday, according to the White House.

The Ebola outbreak has overwhelmed health systems in Africa, one of the world’s poorest regions, prompting the U.S. government and other nations to send funds, supplies and personnel to stop its spread.

The Dallas case “underscores that Ebola is a global and national security issue and that we need to double-down on our efforts to help West Africa get this outbreak under control,” said Gerald Parker, vice president for public health preparedness and response at Texas A&M Health Science Center.

Dr. Frieden has said U.S. hospitals are well prepared to handle Ebola patients and has assured the public that the virus should not pose the same threat in the United States as it does in Africa.

“Americans need to remain calm and listen to the precautionary measures being suggested by the CDC,” said Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on African Affairs.

“It was only a matter of time before an Ebola case would emerge here in the United States. But as we’re seeing in Dallas today, our public health system has the resources, capabilities and knowledge to address and contain this virus quickly and safely.”

Ebola symptoms generally appear between two and 21 days after infection, meaning there is a significant window during which an infected person can escape detection, allowing him or her to travel. Symptoms include fever, vomiting and diarrhea.

This outbreak has killed about 50 percent of its victims. In past outbreaks, fatality rates have been as high as 90 percent.

Dr. Frieden emphasized that Ebola cannot be spread through the air but only through contact with bodily fluids.

He added that the CDC and other health officials were discussing whether to treat the Ebola patient with an experimental drug.

Correction The city’s indoor pool at Bellemeade Community Center on Lynhaven Avenue in South Richmond is open and operates all year. An article published in the Sept. 25-27 edition failed to include Bellemeade’s status. The Swansboro indoor pool on Midlothian Turnpike in South Side is closed for repairs and is scheduled to reopen in December.

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Honors for her honor Retired Richmond Circuit Court Judge Margaret P. Spencer enjoys the many accolades showered upon her at a retirement reception Friday at the Library of Virginia.

Judge Spencer became Richmond Circuit Court’s first female judge in 1998 after serving on the city’s General District Court bench for about four years. She stepped down July 31. Her husband, U.S. District Judge James R. Spencer, right front, cheered her at the event, along with many friends, family, staff and colleagues.

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Virginia chef to grace new postal stamp Free Press wire reports

She was called the “Grand Dame of Southern Cooking.”

Now Edna Lewis, the famed late chef from Orange County, Va., is being honored with her own postal stamp.

Ms. Lewis, who was born in 1916 in Freetown in the Unionville area of Orange County, will grace one of the U.S. Postal Service’s first “Celebrity Chefs” Forever stamps.

Her visage will appear on the stamps, which also will feature culinary greats Julia Child, James Beard, Joyce Chen and Felipe Rojas-Lombardi.

Ms. Lewis was one of eight children and the granddaughter of an emancipated slave who helped found the community where she lived. She died in 2006.

Central to her upbringing was food in all of its natural phases — growing, foraging, harvesting and cooking.

“Without any modern cooking conveniences — everything was cooked over wood and, lacking measuring spoons, bak-

Ms. Lewis authored three cookbooks, including “The Taste of Country Cooking,” and operated a restaurant, Café Nicholson, in New York City. She cooked for the likes of Marlon Brando, Howard Hughes, Salvador Dali and Eleanor Roosevelt.

“By bringing such quintessential dishes as shrimp and grits and roast chicken to the plates of trendy restaurants, From left, the five chefs honored with postal stamps are Edna Lewis, Felipe Edna Lewis showed her felRojas-Lombardi, Joyce Chen, James Beard and Julia Child. low Americans the vitality of ing powder was measured on coins — food Southern cooking,” according to the USPS. preparation called on creativity, resourcefulness The five chefs honored on the stamps revolutionized the and ingenuity,” according to The Edna Lewis understanding of food, the postal service said in a release.

Foundation.

“Seeing cooking as a source of delight, they invited us to feast Ms. Lewis is among the culinary idols of on regional and international flavors and were early, but ardent world famous chef Patrick O’Connell, proprietor champions of trends that many foodies now take for granted,” at the Inn at Little Washington in Rappahannock the post office said. “As they shared their know-how, they enCounty. He said she was a true American culinary couraged us to undertake our own culinary adventures.” pioneer.

Edna Lewis’ sister, Ruth Lewis Smith, told the Orange County “All of us here at the Inn at Little Washington Review that she was overjoyed at the news of the stamp. are delighted that this wonderful woman and Vir“It’s just awesome to have someone in the family and a black ginia native is being honored and remembered with the stamp,” person on a stamp for the chefs,” Mrs. Smith said. “Edna always he said. “We always loved the fact that Edna claimed she never loved to cook. She was fascinated by preparing foods that her left home without a bottle of Chanel No. 5 and a small mason parents and grandparents cooked when we were children, but jar of bourbon in her purse.” she knew how to cook everything.”

Jack J. Pollard, “The Peanut Man,” succumbs at 71 He was known throughout the community as “The Peanut Man.” But to those who knew and loved him best, Jack J. Pollard Jr. was much more.

The Richmond native and longtime owner of The Peanut Store, a popular community shop, always put his family first, said his wife, Phyllis.

“He loved his children and taking care of them,” she said. “He was a good provider.”

For more than four decades, Mr. Pollard’s store offered an array of treats to the Richmond area, first from a location at 2nd and Broad streets in Downtown and now in Eastern Henrico County.

In addition to their trademark peanuts, he sold candy, cake, ice cream, popcorn, candy apples, coffee and soft drinks.

Mr. Pollard is being remembered following his death Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2014. He was 71.

Family and friends celebrated his life Wednesday, Sept. 24, at Saint Paul’s Baptist Church in Henrico County.

He also was recognized during a wake a day earlier by Frank J. Thornton, the Fairfield District representative on the Henrico Board of Supervisors.

Mr. Pollard loved reading his Bible and attended Victorious Living Christian Center in Henrico County, his wife said.

And on the rare occasions when he was not at the store at 3605 Mechanicsville Turnpike, Mr. Pollard loved to fish, garden and collect coins.

Growing up in Richmond, Mr. Pollard attended Armstrong High School. He had a strong entrepreneurial spirit and dreamed of owning his own business, Mrs. Pollard said. Years later,

Jack J. Pollard Jr. poses in his first store, The Peanut Shoppe at 2nd and Broad streets, with the Planters’ icon, Mr. Peanut. Mr. Pollard’s son, Daryl, was wearing the costume and entertained customers in the shop.

he went back to night school to take business classes.

She first met her future husband when he visited family members in Church Hill.

Mr. Pollard began working at the Planters Peanut store on Broad Street in 1961 for thenowner Francis Taliaferro.

“He knew nothing about peanuts when he began working there,” Mrs. Pollard said.

She started working at the store a few years later.

Mr. Pollard managed the store for more than a decade, then bought it from Mr. Taliaferro in 1974, making him among the first African-

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Americans to own a business on Broad Street in recent history. He renamed the store “The Peanut Shoppe.”

With his wife helping him run the store, Mr. Pollard was driven to succeed. He increased sales and profits at the store by nearly 50 percent in a few years.

“He was a self-made man,” Mrs. Pollard said.

“He worked hard, and a lot of stuff we learned on our own. I didn’t know anything about payroll or paying taxes until we bought the store.”

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In the early 1990s, the Pollards moved the store to its current location in Henrico and renamed it “The Peanut Store.”

A changing economic landscape in Richmond prompted the move, Mrs. Pollard said.

“People could park in front of the store when we first had it. Then the city started making people pay to park,” she said. “We were losing business.”

Mr. Pollard took great pride in providing his children — Jacqueline D. Pollard and Daryl T. Pollard — grandchildren, other family and friends with jobs.

For more than 15 years, Mr. Pollard also provided members of the Henrico CONNECT Program, a youth after-school program, with their first jobs. He also contributed to numerous organizations and initiatives that supported local and minority-owned businesses.

He received numerous honors and was recognized by the Astoria Beneficial Club Inc. with its Citizenship Award.

He also was a member of Trinity Lodge #44 of the Richmond Association of Masonic Lodges.

Mr. Pollard suffered from stomach cancer and worked until about a month before he died, his wife said.

She said she will continue to operate The Peanut Store with help from her daughter, grandson, Terrell, and other family members.

Additional survivors include four grandchildren, one great-grandson, a sister and brother and a host of other relatives and friends.

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Breach of trust In this space last week, we expressed our deep disturbance by the incursion into the White House by an armed fence jumper.

And we expressed hope that a Congressional committee investigating would get to the bottom of it.

We were too soft.

Details revealed during Tuesday’s hearing, and in a series of articles by The Washington Post, exposed the appalling ineptitude of U.S. Secret Service Director Julia Pierson and the agents entrusted to protect the life of our nation’s president and his family.

We learned that the fence jumper not only bolted through the front door of the White House, but raced through several rooms on the main floor before being subdued outside the Green Room by an off-duty agent who, by happenstance, was at the White House.

Ms. Pierson also failed to disclose to the committee that, three days before the fence-jumper incident, an armed security guard with three convictions for assault and battery was allowed on an elevator with President Obama during his trip to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.

The agency’s incompetence in handling security for President Obama goes back nearly to the start of his presidency, with the party crashers at the first White House dinner in 2009.

And recent reports offered shocking details from 2011 of a man using a semiautomatic rifle who fired several shots at the White House from his car stopped on Constitution Avenue.

Several rounds struck the White House, where President Obama’s daughter, Sasha, and his mother-in-law, Marian Robinson, were in residence at the time.

The Secret Service failed to do a full sweep of the White House and, instead, tried to explain away the gunshot sounds as the backfiring of a nearby construction vehicle or gunfire between two rival gangs.

The incident would have been swept under the rug but for a housekeeper who discovered broken glass and bullet holes on the Truman Balcony. President and Mrs. Obama weren’t informed until four days after the shooting. They reportedly were furious.

Ms. Pierson said the Secret Service is 550 people below its optimal staffing. That’s no excuse for the agency to act more like the Keystone Cops than the nation’s elite protective unit.

Ms. Pierson resigned Wednesday. But she should have been booted out a long time ago. She had 16 months to whip the Secret Service into shape after highly publicized reports of agents’ drunken debauchery in Colombia, embarrassing incidents with prostitutes in Thailand and a rendezvous at a Washington hotel room where an agent left a bullet behind.

In a nation reeling from the overzealous brutality of police against African-Americans in cities stretching from Los Angeles to Ferguson, Mo., to Greenville, S.C., where are the authorities when it comes to protecting President Obama?

Top priority must be placed on finding the best person to lead the Secret Service so that the president and his family will not be placed in jeopardy.

Never say never A year ago, we expunged the nickname of Washington’s NFL football franchise from our news stories and editorial columns.

At the time, Raymond H. Boone, our late editor/publisher, called the team’s name “insulting to Native Americans, racist and divisive.”

Many told him that he was on a fool’s errand. They pointedly noted that team owner Daniel Snyder was vowing never to change the name.

We are proud to say that our principled stance is bearing fruit.

Other newspapers, as well as broadcasters, have followed suit.

So has President Obama and half of the U.S. Senate.

And the pressure continues to build on the team.

In June, government agencies began getting involved. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office went first, canceling the team’s trademark registration after determining the team’s name and logo are disparaging, though that ruling is on appeal.

Now another independent federal agency with even more clout is getting involved.

That agency is the Federal Communications Commission, which sets policies for radio and TV broadcasters.

The FCC this week announced it is willing to consider whether to deem the team’s moniker as indecent. That essentially would ban broadcasts on regulated networks, such as NBC, CBS and Fox, from using the name. If they use it, the FCC could punish them.

We note that the issue is before the FCC because of a citizen-activist and law professor who understands that the people rule this country.

John Banzhaf III made it an FCC issue by presenting a petition urging the agency to pull the broadcast license of Virginia-based radio station WWXX-FM of Prince William County for using the name he calls “racist, derogatory, profane and hateful.”

The good news: Tom Wheeler, chairman of the regulatory agency and a supporter of a name change, is promising that Mr. Banzhaf’s petition would receive serious consideration.

This all brings back memories of a previous owner of the Washington team, segregationist George Preston Marshall, who 53 years ago vowed never to allow black players on his team.

He quickly changed that policy after President John F. Kennedy’s administration threatened to ban the team from playing in its new D.C. stadium that had been built on government land.

Let’s see how long Mr. Snyder clings to his “never” if the FCC does the right thing and sides with Mr. Banzhaf.

We’ll keep our fingers crossed.

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Economic violence shatters the ‘Dream’ Last year, my family and I were honored to join millions around the world in celebrating the 50th anniversary of the landmark “March on Washington.” Beyond the powerful exhortation against racism of my father’s “I Have a Dream” speech, however, the organizers were demanding economic justice, along with civil rights, for African-Americans and all who were shut out of the “American Dream.”

Today, the disproportionate impact of the foreclosure crisis in communities of color — 17 foreclosures per 1,000 homes in minority zip codes as opposed to 10 per 1,000 in white communities — underscores the collateral damage of the greed-fueled push to force struggling families of all ethnicities to forfeit their own pieces of the “Dream.”

My father spent a lifetime working to combat the destructive trifecta of poverty, racism and violence. In our view, the growing dissolution of homeownership, the primary opportunity for building

net wealth for hard-working Americans, constitutes nothing less than “economic violence” being perpetrated against the most financially vulnerable constituency.

In the context of the foreclosure crisis as violence against homeowners, it occurred to me

Martin Luther King III that the six steps for nonviolent social change that my father used in many of his most successful campaigns could be applied to launch an inclusive movement to address and resolve the issues surrounding forced foreclosures.

Nonviolence is a time-honored process with the following phases: (1) Information Gathering; (2) Education; (3) Personal Commitment; (4) Discussion/ Negotiation; (5) Direct Action; and (6) Reconciliation. The objective is simply to defeat injustice, not an opponent, through reasoned and nonhostile compromise. And that is our mission.

In January 2013, we participated in a national community outreach effort sponsored by the Independent Foreclosure Review (IFR), an entity established by

the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the Federal Reserve and the Office of Thrift Supervision to assist in providing remediation for affected homeowners. Although nearly 8 million people were reached directly and indirectly through churches across the country, we were shocked to learn that the IFR was abruptly terminated before it could even begin to help a single borrower.

Since the beginning of the housing crisis, some 4.9 million homeowners are in foreclosure and 1.9 million families continue to struggle to stay current on their mortgages, with a large percentage of them “under water.”

With so much suffering — and homeownership at its lowest level in two decades — it is particularly abhorrent that certain powerful hedge funds and insurance conglomerates are pushing hard for more foreclosures rather than sustainable resolutions that would allow families to keep their homes.

This pro-foreclosure campaign seeks to unravel the mortgage principal reduction objectives in federal remediation settlements and block the use of loan modifications as a tool to restore stability in communities.

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Holder’s legacy on civil rights Departing Attorney General Eric Holder deserves cheers for his stance on civil rights, in my view, but bemused jeers for his assaults on civil liberties.

Mr. Holder may well be remembered ironically as a leading advocate for both human rights and for the advancement of government powers that infringe on those rights.

I have no quarrel with his aggressive pursuit of necessary civil rights reforms. He took actions to expand benefits for same-sex couples, for example, and reduce long, costly and ultimately counterproductive sentences for nonviolent drug offenders.

He took on racial disparities in criminal sentencing and voting laws. He also became a more assertive voice against alleged police abuses when President Obama had to walk a more diplomatic middle ground.

Some, like me, compared him in such instances to “Luther,” President Obama’s fictitious alter ego in Comedy Central’s “Key and Peele” who reveals what the president “really thinks.”

But the administration’s liberal base also hated Mr. Holder’s failure to arrest any Wall Street bankers for the fraud that triggered the economic collapse of 2008, although his Justice Department did win some record fines.

His critics on the left were mild compared to the firestorm he generated in Congress, mostly from Republicans.

His refusal to turn over some internal documents related to

a botched gunrunning probe known as “Fast and Furious,”for example, resulted in a House vote in 2012 largely along party

Clarence Page lines to hold him in contempt of Congress.

These are not small issues, but the debate is so often clouded by partisan rancor that where you stand can quickly become a matter of where you sit politically.

Both parties have good reasons to be upset when President Obama’s Justice Department tilts, as Benjamin Franklin might put it, too far away from liberty in their pursuit of safety.

Most controversially, he defended the FBI’s right to track people’s cars without warrants.

He approved of the National Security Agency’s authority to sweep up millions of phone records of Americans accused of no crime.

Mr. Holder’s department also wrote a legal justification for killing American citizens overseas if it is determined they pose a threat to U.S. lives and can’t be apprehended through traditional means.

Each of these issues calls for serious debate, which too often is lacking on Capitol Hill.

As much as lawmakers in both parties complain about a growing imperial presidency, depending on which party is sitting in the White House, Congress has not been eager to make those tough decisions either.

I’m losing count, for example, of all the wars we have fought since World War II, the last time Congress actually voted formally

to declare war, as called for in the Constitution.

Having avoided a formal declaration of war since World War II, too many members of Congress would rather duck, dodge and delay making tough decisions — and complain about whatever the White House does later.

With that in mind, I am dismayed but not shocked that what many journalists and civil libertarians see as a war on the press started in Mr. Holder’s office.

He has subpoenaed journalists, their emails and their phone records in a crackdown on their sources. He has started more investigations than any of his predecessors into government officials who disclosed information to reporters.

The New York Times reporter James Risen, who has refused to reveal his sources about information on Iran, remains under subpoena.

For actions like these, attorney James Goodale, who argued on behalf of the New York Times in the historic Pentagon Papers case against the Nixon administration before the Supreme Court, described President Obama as “rapidly becoming the worst ... president ever” for respecting press freedom on national security matters.

Mr. Holder acknowledged in a New York Times exit interview after announcing his resignation that those efforts went too far at times. He praised his office’s new rules to limit investigations involving journalists.

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a $9.4 trillion problem affecting some 9 million citizens in the United States. And the growing erosion of wealth and equity is bankrupting minority and other disadvantaged citizens whose aspirations for homeownership are being jeopardized by huge corporate financial institutions whose callous indifference to the plight of struggling families is reprehensible.

Unfortunately, there is still a widespread misperception that the devastating subprime scandal is behind us. But Beyond Broke, a report prepared by the Washington-based Center for Global Policy Solutions, thoroughly analyzes the systemic roots of the economic disparities manifested in the continuing housing crisis.

With homeownership remaining the “key driver of wealth,” the far-reaching adverse consequences of foreclosure are inevitable.

Policymakers, regulators and fiduciaries overseeing the mortgage market simply cannot allow that to happen when so many have sacrificed so much to open the door to that ‘Dream.’

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Fix it so poor survive Mayor Dwight C. Jones is talking about a 1 cent real estate tax cut. No matter what happens — a 1 cent cut or not — the wealthy will be helped more than the poor.

Poor people don’t have enough to live. They still will have to pay homeowner taxes. And if the city increases the fees for trash service, people will have to pay more if they have two or more big green trash cans.

The city ultimately will get more money that I hope won’t be used for a new baseball stadium.

There are a lot of things that need to be addressed in the city. They need to fix them so the poor can survive.

HENRY CARTER Richmond

Inmate rehabilitation programs are essential Re “Family relapses into system,” Sept.

25-27 edition: The story about the mother and son being incarcerated at the same time at the Richmond Justice Center was very touching. When I began in the juvenile justice field more than 30 years ago, no one cared about youths being rehabilitated while incarcerated. There were no programs for adult inmates. As long as you kept him or her locked up with only a few incidents, you were considered doing a good job.

Times have changed with the addition of rehabilitation programs. The jail’s programs to improve inmates’ skills are needed to

better equip them to cope with the outside world when they are released. Now, it is very important that a facility has a rehabilitation plan in place.

I feel if you can reach people when they are young, your success rate will be greater.

My motto: You might not be able to save everyone, but you can save some.

Good luck to the mother and son.

ERNEST PARKER JR. Richmond The writer is a retired assistant superintendent at the Richmond Juvenile Detention Center.

Avoid economic trap Do you ever call a tech and not understand what he or she is saying?

Is your income not keeping up with rising prices?

Are you unable to find goods that have been made in America?

The North American Free Trade Agreement has contributed to all of these things.

It has led to lower wages, job losses, outsourcing and even a loss of American sovereignty.

Trade pacts such as NAFTA are regional arrangements that create governing bodies that take control over not just trade but also regulations that have nothing to do with trade.

For example, the proposed Trans-Pacific Part-

nership includes only five chapters that actually deal with trade — and 24 that do not.

Such pacts are detrimental to our economy and will lead to the eventual economic and political integration of the United States with 11 or more Pacific Rim nations and the European Union.

The once sovereign nations in Europe joined the EU, having been sold on the premise that it would be good for their economies. Today the EU rules supreme at the expense of an individual nation’s sovereignty.

We need to avoid the same trap.

SUE LONG Chesterfield County

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If Virginia Union University’s football Panthers’ ahead of two defenders. didn’t believe in magic before, they may now.

Graham’s accurate arm, plus York’s sure hands, Using a play that ought to be called “abracadabra,” added up to an against-all-odds touchdown.

VUU needed a mere nine-tenths of a second to turn York snagged the ball on the 2-yard line, on a dead agony into ecstasy at Johnson C. Smith University. run, and strided past the goal stripe.

Now, a most fortunate first-year coach Mark James A wild end zone celebration ensued. will try and wave the same magic wand It was as fulfilling a victory as VUU when longtime rival Shaw University has had in some time, and certainly as Oct. 4 visits Saturday for the annual Hall of deflating a loss as Johnson C. Smith Shaw (2-2, 1-0) at Fame Game at Hovey Field. has experienced — or ever will experiVirginia Union (3-1, 1-0), VUU dates its rich football history ence, for that matter.

1 p.m. to 1900. It’s doubtful the Panthers have The Golden Bulls led 26-15 with ever had a more fantastic finish than last just 6:30 to go before Graham flipped Saturday in Charlotte. All that was missing at Eddie to the page in the playbook titled “wizardry.”

McGirt Field was Tinker Bell in the huddle and some A 39-yard TD pass from Graham to Danta Gross got pixie dust on the pigskin. the Panthers within range. Then an energized defense In defeating Johnson C. Smith, 26-25, VUU traveled got the ball back.

80 yards in the final 49 seconds.

Earlier, Gross, a freshman from Baltimore, caught a A nearly four-hour game boiled down to one play 54-yard pass from Graham in which he eluded numerand one prayer — make or break — with 0:00.9 left ous tackle tries en route to the goal line. on the clock. The Panthers were on the Golden Bulls’ Gross finished with five catches, 149 yards, and 37-yard line, with Johnson C. Smith ahead 25-20. two touchdowns.

Panthers quarterback Kenneth Graham, who had On the final climactic possession, it was York’s turn been brilliant in relief, found swift Jussie York, his to wear the hero’s cape. dreadlocks flying, streaking down the left sideline just The well-traveled Floridian played for coach James

at Boyd Anderson High School in Fort Lauderdale, where he was a big-time recruit with West Virginia among his suitors.

First, he committed to Western Michigan. Then he opted for ASA College in Brooklyn, N.Y. From there, he signed with Old Dominion University in Norfolk.

Finally, he hooked up with his old high school coach on Lombardy Street.

A week ago, York threw an end-around TD pass in the fourth quarter to help VUU escape Fayetteville with James’ first road victory.

This time York excelled more traditionally, catching passes rather than hurling them.

York finished with six catches, 109 yards and two touchdowns.

He had plenty of help. Entering action in the fourth quarter, Graham was 12 for 16, 230 yards and three TDs. This Saturday, Shaw University comes to VUU off a 38-27 victory over Lincoln. The Bears are led by quarterback Trey Folston, who passed for 289 yards and three touchdowns against Lincoln.

Still, VUU is oozing with momentum, feeling like whatever you can do, we can do better.

Pulling a rabbit — err, touchdown — out of a hat makes you feel that way.

VSU defeats Fayetteville State; St. Aug next Virginia State University began the football season with haunting question marks at quarterback and tailback.

Trojans fans can relax now.

Those worries have been erased.

Tarian Ayres has fit in nicely at quarterback, replacing Justin Thorpe.

And Trey Johnson has taken up the ball-toting slack left by Jordan Anderson.

Thorpe and Anderson had a hand in almost all of VSU’s touchdowns a year ago.

Coach Latrell Scott’s second edition of the Trojans has consecutive wins after defeating Fayetteville 35-14. Scott is looking for more wins as St. Augustine’s comes to Rogers Stadium Saturday.

Under interim coach Mike Morand, St. Augustine’s is 1-3 after a 33-31 win last week over Chowan.

Morand replaced Mike Costa, who was fired

Sept. 8 in his 13th season as the five times for 65 yards and Falcons’ coach. Also axed followJaivon Smallwood four times Oct. 4 ing a 41-19 opening-day loss to for 58 yards.

St. Augustine’s (1-0, 1-3) Indiana, Pa., was Tremayne Henry, “Jaivon is drawing a lot of at Virginia State (2-2, 1-0), the defensive coordinator. coverage,” said Scott. “It’s nice 2 p.m.

To assist Ayres, Scott enhow Tarian spread it around.” listed Aaron Corp as quarterVSU tailback Johnson enjoyed back coach. Corp played under Scott at the a career day against Fayetteville, racing for 125 University of Richmond. yards on 23 carries. From Varina High School, “Aaron has done a great job with Tarian,” Johnson played two years at West Virginia before said Scott. “Tarian made a bunch of nice checks transferring to VSU. (changing plays at the line) against Fayetteville.

Scott recalls that when he was the head coach He has become very efficient.” at the University of Richmond in 2010 and 2011, Ayres was 22-for-30, passing for 318 yards he didn’t recruit Johnson heavily at UR because against Fayetteville. In his last two games, the he didn’t think he could get him.

VMI transfer is 44-for-63, for 462 yards.

“Trey was considered a national player; we He is second in the CIAA in passing, and didn’t have a shot,” said Scott.

Johnson and freshman Earl Hughes are VSU’s one yard per game behind Livingstone’s Drew break-away backs. Kavon Bellamy, who had Powell.

Against Fayetteville, Ayres hit Dion Futch two touchdowns against the Broncos, is more

about short yardage power.

Scott suggested the success of Thorpe and Anderson, both transfers from James Madison University, helped VSU attract Johnson.

Defensively, VSU will pay special attention to St. Augustine’s passing combination of Cyril Davis to Clayton Lewis.

In St. Augustine’s win over Chowan, Davis was 17-for-26 for 307 yards; Lewis had six catches for 216 yards.

Scott feels his team is on schedule to run the table and win the CIAA North for the second straight year.

“That’s the plan,” said Scott.

The CIAA football championship game will be in Durham, N.C. Last year, the CIAA final was canceled in Winston-Salem following an altercation between VSU and Winston-Salem State players the day before the game.

Huguenot powers past George Wythe If Bryan Jennings appears to have an extra bounce in his step this week, here’s why: With the aid of TV, Jennings watched his kid brother, tailback Rashad, help the NFL’s New York Giants whip the professional football team in Washington Sept. 25.

On Sept. 27, Jennings saw his alma mater, Virginia Tech, win its homecoming game and his linebacker son,

Related story/B8 Bryson, enjoy a rousing performance for the Robious Bucs of the Chesterfield Quarterback League.

Sandwiched in, on Sept. 26, Jennings picked up his first varsity coaching victory for Huguenot High School. It was a 32-14 win over South Richmond rival George Wythe High School.

The contest was played 13 miles from Huguenot High School, at the East End’s Armstrong High, the only city school with a lighted gridiron.

“The first win feels good…I know it will be the first of many,” said Jennings, a former Hokie All-Big East tight end (Class of ’96) and San Diego Charger in 1997.

“I know the future is bright.”

Neither Wythe — having hardly ever played on campus — nor Huguenot — now in its third “homeless” season — has a home field this autumn.

For Huguenot, that will change dramatically when the new Huguenot opens in January on Forest Hill Avenue.

“Starting next year, we’ll be playing Friday nights under the lights, on our own field — the way it ought to be,” said Jennings.

Huguenot’s victory over Wythe,

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Huguenot defenders corral a George Wythe ball carrier in Friday night’s game at Armstrong High School.

now 1-3, came after losses at Norview, Petersburg, Manchester and Cosby by a combined 148-19.

For the time being, Huguenot practices at the Westover Playground while bulldozers and carpenters continue oncampus construction.

Marzhire Hunter, a 5-foot-9, 205-pound bundle of speed and power, is among the Falcons’ few seniors. He came along a year too early to benefit from the new Huguenot.

Determined to finish strong, Hunter rumbled for more than 100 yards against George Wythe and was a key defender.

Earlier, Hunter went for more than 100 yards against Petersburg.

Alternating Huguenot quarterbacks are junior Freddie Vincent and sophomore Blake Paige, a tandem Jennings calls “our two-headed monster.”

Contributing “double-digit tackles,” says Jennings, was sophomore Elijah Johnson, a rugged 6-foot-1, 210-pound

linebacker.

Wythe snapped a 26-game losing streak the week before, with a victory over a small, private school from Maryland.

The Bulldogs have won just two of its last 95 games over 10 seasons.

The South of the James pecking order is well established for now.

Huguenot has won only five games during the past five years — all against Wythe. The Falcons haven’t lost to the Bulldogs since 1986.

Still, Jennings says, “We couldn’t ask for a better situation,” referencing the new Huguenot, Richmond’s first new high school since John F. Kennedy opened in the late 1960s.

“Every day, it’s right there for us to see,” he said of the new school. “We’re all thinking ‘one more year.’”

It wasn’t that long ago that the Falcons were an area juggernaut.

Under coach Richard McFee, Huguenot won eight district and three region titles, advanced twice to the state semifinals and once to the state finals, in 1988.

Huguenot expects a large boost in enrollment next year and that means more football prospects.

The Falcons likely will move up from Class 3A to Class 4A, meaning it would not be in same conference with the other city schools.

The season-long road trip continues for Wythe, which travels to Manchester High in Chesterfield this Friday, while Huguenot is headed to play James River High in Henrico.

Jennings will be familiar with the surroundings. He served as a James River High assistant coach during the last four years before accepting an assignment to help Huguenot return to its former glory.

High Schools Conference 26, 3A East

Last week’s results Armstrong 36, Glen Allen 21 John Marshall 28, J.R. Tucker 14 Thomas Dale 54, Hopewell 14 Petersburg 40, Prince George 37 Huguenot 32, George Wythe 14 Hermitage 42, Thomas Jefferson 0 Oct. 3 schedule Huguenot at James River, 7:30 p.m.

George Wythe at Monacan, 7:30 p.m.

Dinwiddie at Petersburg, 7:30 p.m.

Meadowbrook at Hopewell, 7:30 p.m.

Armstrong at Varina, 7 p.m.

Thomas Jefferson at J.R. Tucker, 7 p.m.

John Marshall at Douglas Freeman, 7 p.m.

Records Armstrong 4-0 Petersburg 2-2 Hopewell 2-2 Huguenot 1-4 George Wythe 1-3 John Marshall 1-3 Thomas Jefferson 0-4 Note: Conference 26 schools do not play round-robin schedule.

Regional playoff berths will be determined by overall records.

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He’s taking on the mission as the new president of the 57-member Urban League of Greater Richmond Young Professionals.

“We cater to those ages 21 to 45,” says Mr. Rogers, who succeeded Shemicia L. Bowen in the nonprofit’s top post in August.

He says the group mixes volunteerism and philanthropy with leadership development and fun.

“We get involved in everything from community cleanups to lobbying legislators to participating in drives for school supplies,” he says.

He points to several activities this week as examples of the varied programming.

On Thursday night, members are to get tips on becoming more effective public speakers from a chapter leader of Toastmasters International.

That is to be followed by a Friday evening wine tasting at a Shockoe Bottom wine shop. The event will double as a fundraiser for the fight against breast cancer.

And Saturday, ULGRYP members will team up with chapters of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity and Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority on a voter education event at the 2nd Street Festival.

Mr. Rogers describes himself as resilient, ambitious and genuine. He makes time for ULGRYP on top of his full-time work as a recruiter of computer and technology specialists for the Richmond-based staffing firm Astyra.

“I became involved with ULGRYP after a college friend recommended I join,” he says. That was two years ago when he was a newcomer to Richmond and “wanted to engage civic-minded young professionals.”

For him, the association has been ideal. He’s hoping more people looking for the same kind of connection will find their way to the organization.

“We welcome individuals from all industries and professions.”

Meet this week’s Personality, Victor L. Rogers: Place of birth: Fort Riley, Kan. Current home: Richmond.

Alma mater: Old Dominion University, B.S. in marketing with a minor in management.

When elected: Took office effective Aug. 1, 2014.

Length of term: One year.

Mission: National Urban League Young Professionals is made up of a network of young professionals from across the country providing leadership development, economic empowerment and community volunteer opportunities. The organization trains, develops and educates young professionals to take leadership roles within the

scholarships and financial support of affiliates and delivering personal and professional development and networking opportunities to young professionals in their local communities.

My vision for ULGRYP: To engage young professionals in the Greater Richmond area by creating unique and diverse personal and professional development programming, and by striving to positively impact economic development concerns in the surrounding area.

National Urban League, the Civil Rights Movement and society at large. Locally, members of ULGRYP are defining, developing, implementing and leading the millennial generation’s civil rights agenda in support of our affiliate, the Urban League of Greater Richmond, which is celebrating 100 years of service to the Richmond area.

When I joined ULGRYP: 2012.

What ULGRYP means to me: It enables me to utilize my platform to have a positive effect on young professionals in the community. My passion is working within the area of workforce and professional development to stimulate job growth and job readiness.

When ULGRYP was founded: 1999, with Darius Johnson serving as its first president.

Reason: In the 1980s and 1990s, several Urban League affiliates recognized the need to prepare a new generation of young leaders to take the mantle of leadership of the Civil Rights Movement.

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While this is our target for membership, NULYP welcomes the assistance of individuals outside of the 21-to-45 age range.

ULGRYP’s No. 1 challenge in Richmond: Sharing the talent pool of the ULGRYP with community leaders and other civic organizations to yield a collective positive outcome for various projects throughout the Greater Richmond area.

How I plan to meet it: By developing new strategies and collaborative partners in the community that are interested in retaining young professionals who improve the intellectual capital in the greater Richmond area.

Nobody knows I: Can cook quite well and specialize in Southern and Caribbean cuisine.

Person who influenced me the most: My mother, Vicky Rogers, and college fraternity adviser Ken Sutton.

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Re-enactment at historic New Market Heights Two Union Army re-enactors help a “wounded” comrade off the battlefield during a re-enactment of the Battle of New Market Heights in eastern Henrico County. The historic battle took place Sept. 29-30, 1864. Its significance: Fourteen members of the U.S. Colored Troops, from five different regiments, were awarded the Medal of Honor for actions during the battle.

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Midnight Star is headed to Richmond to headline the 26th edition of the 2nd Street Festival this weekend.

The six-member R&B band, led by singer Belinda Lipscomb, is best known for such danceable 1980s hits as “Freak-A-Zoid,” “Hot Spot,” “Slow Jam” and “No Parking on the Dance Floor.”

The group will top the array of entertainment at the annual celebration of historic Jackson Ward, once the heart and soul of Richmond’s black community and dubbed the “Harlem of the South.”

The festive, two-day event is scheduled for this weekend.

Times: 11:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 4, and noon to 6 p.m.

Sunday, Oct. 5. Admission is free and open to all.

As always, the festival will sprawl along 2nd Street between Broad and Jackson streets and the side streets.

The festival traditionally attracts more than 35,000 people over the two days when the weather is good — and sunny, fall weather is forecast for this weekend.

Midnight Star is scheduled to perform from 5:30 to 7 p.m.

Saturday on the Waverly R. Crawley Main Stage at 2nd and Marshall streets, according to Venture Richmond, the Downtown booster group that presents the festival.

Well-known area performers and groups also will appear, ranging from Ban Caribe and Plunky & Oneness to Larry Bland and the Volunteer Choir, James “Saxsmo” Gates Quartet and Debo Dabney and the Happy Band. Mr. Bland also will introduce his new group, “Promise.”

In all, 35 acts are scheduled to appear on the four stages. The festival also will feature a Kidz Zone for children, artists, a marketplace and food vendors. Altria and Dominion are the main sponsors.

Additional details: (804) 788-6466 or venturerichmond.com.

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Celebrating culture Drumming, dancing, food and fellowship were part of the Chickahominy Tribe’s 63rd annual Fall Festival and Pow-Wow last weekend in Charles City County. Many people dressed in native garments for the cultural event, which also was enjoyed by Gov. Terry McAuliffe, who made brief remarks, and U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine. Fry bread, jewelry, clothing and paintings were on display and for sale.

World fare and music event Saturday Food and music from around the world — that’s what the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart will be offering this weekend.

The event: The International Food Festival, set for Saturday, Oct. 4, at the cathedral, Laurel Street and Cathedral Place across from Monroe Park.

Time: 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Admission is free, but there will be a charge

for the food.

Offerings will range from Filipino noodles and German bratwurst to Haitian pumpkin soup, French cookies, Vietnamese spring rolls, Irish chicken, Polish Kielbasa, Italian sausage and other items.

Entertainers will include Angel Rodriguez, who will offer Salsa lessons, and Ezibu Muntu, which will perform African dance.

The Ballet Folklorico Sagrado Corazon also will dance to the Mexican songs of Jalisco and Veracruz, while children from the Church of the Vietnamese Martyrs will perform traditional dances of their ancestral country.

Filipino folk musicians also will perform, and there will be a presentation of a traditional Filipino play, “The Legend of Sleeping Beauty Mountain.”

Edwards-Burrs in concert Oct.17

South African artist leaves mark at VMFA A renowned South African artist has put her personal touch on the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts’ permanent collection.

VMFA commissioned Esther Mahlangu to create two large-scale paintings.

Ms. Mahlangu is known for adding global, contemporary context to mural painting, according to a VMFA news release.

She and her granddaughter Marriam, came to Richmond in early September, and spent most of the month working daily on their commission.

The program also will include raffles.

Proceeds from the event will support various Catholic missions in Richmond.

The festival brings back a celebration of diversity in Richmond. The Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Richmond held such festivals for nearly 30 years before shutting down in the late-1990s.

Further festival details: (804) 359-5651 or www.cathedralfoodfestival.com.

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Esther Mahlangu, an artist-in-residence at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, used brushes made from chicken feathers to paint the two 9-by-15-foot murals, which now are part of VMFA’s permanent collection.

The paintings are now complete, displayed in Evans Court. They form a gateway to the museum’s African art gallery.

The 9-by-15-foot murals will be pre-

sented to VMFA patrons and the public next Wednesday and Thursday. She also will talk about her work 6 p.m. Oct. 9 at VMFA’s Leslie Cheek Theater.

Singer, composer, academic.

These are but three hats worn by Lisa Edwards-Burrs.

And this month she’ll don all three at a Richmond CenterStage performance.

On Friday, Oct. 17, Dr. Edwards-Burrs will “recount the human experience” according to the CenterStage website, in “voices of America — celebrated in word and song.”

The soprano has a diverse educational background, with bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Virginia Commonwealth University and a doctorate of music arts from Dr. Edwards-Burrs The Catholic University of America.

Her performance at Rhythm Hall on Grace Street will combine the words of such authors and poets as Maya Angelou with the songs of spirituals, jazz and musical theater.

Richmond jazz pianist Russell Wilson will accompany Dr. Edwards-Burrs.

Information: (804) 592-3330 or www.richmondcenterstage. com. Tickets: Richmond CenterStage box office, etix.com or (800) 514-3849.

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Churches to help end inaction on end-of-life planning

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

Too many people have not prepared written instructions in case of a serious accident or illness.

They have never created medical directives to spell out their wishes if they no longer can speak for themselves.

They have not designated a power of attorney to handle their financial affairs or to make medical decisions if they are unable to do so.

Ivan K. Tolbert wants to change that.

The community relations specialist for Senior Connections is recruiting African-American churches in the Richmond area to help spread information on advance care planning.

“Our communities of faith need to take the lead to educate, counsel and encourage people to use their legal right to document their decisions,” Mr. Tolbert said.

So far, he said, three churches — Second Baptist in the city’s Randolph area, Gravel Hill Baptist in Varina and Union Baptist in Hopewell — have signed a memorandum of understanding to get involved in breaking what he calls the “silence about preparing for health incapacity and the end of life.”

Mr. Tolbert’s goal is to get at least nine more churches involved in counseling, educating and encouraging congregants and community members to “use their legal right to make and document their decisions while they are still able to speak for themselves.”

He said he is enlisting churches “because they are the most credible institutions we have” on these kinds of issues.

“Death is a taboo subject in our community,” he said, fueled by spiritual beliefs, distrust and fear.

He said families need assistance to start talking about what they would do if one or more adult family members were Mr. Tolbert hospitalized and unable to make decisions.

Ministers and church members involved with counseling and visitations to the ill can play a big role in getting the discussions started, he added.

“My message is that someone is going to be making the decisions when the time comes,” Mr. Tolbert said. “It can be yourself. It can be someone you love or someone you trust. Or it can be a complete stranger in a hospital.”

Most people imagine dying a “good” death, he said, one where there is no pain and they are surrounded by loved ones.

But people who fail to prepare can end up in a situation where they are isolated and among strangers, he said.

Examples are legions of people who were kept hooked up to machines after suffering an irreversible coma, even if they would not have wished it.

During the coming weeks and months, Mr. Tolbert said, par-

ticipating churches will hold information sessions with members and others who are interested to help them understand and create the needed paperwork for end-of-life planning.

Mr. Tolbert said he understands the general reluctance to deal with such issues.

“I can empathize,” Mr. Tolbert said. “I never did anything until I got my current job more than two years ago. Now I understand how important it is, and I’ve taken care of it.”

But other people need to put their wishes on paper as well.

“For too long, African-Americans have lacked access to the knowledge and resources required to have family discussions about medical treatment decisions, legal concerns and end-of-life issues.”

“We have the information. Now we have to share it,” he said.

“Creating advance medical directives and having discussions with family members and doctors about necessary life planning matters — as well as preparing wills and other documents — is something everyone needs to do.”

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‘Throw-away culture’ hurts elderly, world

By Philip Pullella Reuters

VATICAN CITY Pope Francis denounced the neglect and abandonment of the old as “hidden euthanasia.”

During a festive gathering of elders Saturday in St. Peter’s Square, Pope Francis addressed some 40,000 older people, including grandfathers, grandmothers, widows, widowers and former Pope Benedict.

The pope sought to underscore the importance of the old in society. He said homes for the elderly could not be allowed to become “prisons” where care takes a back seat to business interests of those who run them.

According to the World Health Organization, there are 600 million people 60 and older in the world today, and

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the figure is expected to double during the next 11 years and reach 2 billion by 2050, most in the developing world.

It was only the third time since his resignation in February 2013 that Pope Benedict, 87, attended a public event.

The first pope to resign in six centuries has been living out his retirement in near isolation in a former convent in the Vatican gardens. He is assisted by aides and receives few visitors.

Pope Benedict, wearing a white overcoat, stayed for about an hour to hear people speak about their lives and listen to a speech by his successor and

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then left before Pope Francis led a Mass.

The current pope, 77, warmly embraced his predecessor twice during the service and told the crowd that having the emeritus pope living in the Vatican was “like having a wise grandfather at home.”

Since his election as the first non-European pope in 1,300 years, Pope Francis often has called for more respect for the vital role of the elderly, particularly in rich countries, as transmitters of experience and knowledge.

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“Violence against the elderly is as inhuman as that against children,” he told the crowd, which was entertained by singers including world renowned tenor Andrea Bocelli.

“How many times are old people just discarded, victims of an abandonment that is tantamount to hidden euthanasia?

This is the result of a throwaway culture that is hurting our world so much,” he said.

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Historical marker highlights First African Baptist Church

A new state historical marker in Downtown will celebrate the creation of First African Baptist Church.

The marker honoring one of Richmond’s oldest black churches will be dedicated 11 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 4, at the original site, the corner of East Broad and College streets on the medical campus of Virginia Commonwealth University. The ceremony will be held in the courtyard behind the building.

Dr. Rodney Waller, pastor of First African Baptist Church, and Dr. James Somerville, pastor of First Baptist Church, will be among the speakers, along with Julie Langan, director of the Virginia Department of Historic Resources, which approved the marker.

First African Baptist grew out of First Baptist, which was established in 1780 and included African-Americans among

its members.

In 1841, white members built a new First Baptist Church, allowing freed and enslaved black people to buy the original building and start First African Baptist Church. First African Baptist replaced the building in 1876 and then sold it in the 1950s to move to the church’s current home on Hanes Avenue in North Side.

Bishop T.D. Jakes suing Young Jeezy, Kendrick Lamar

By Terry Shropshire

Internationally renowned and universally beloved Bishop T.D. Jakes is vowing to file a lawsuit against popular rapper Young Jeezy and singer Kendrick Lamar for sampling portions of one of his sermons without his consent.

Bishop Jakes, the highly influential televangelist who transformed a tiny West Virginia-based congregation into a transcontinental religious empire called The Potter’s House in Dallas, took great umbrage when he learned that Young Jeezy and Mr. Lamar used a part of a sermon for their song “Holy Ghost” remix.

Bishop Jakes took to Facebook to announce that he will be taking legal action against the hip-hop stars as he revealed he did not give the rappers consent to use any portion of his “Don’t Let Chatter Stop You” sermon that he delivered in 2013.

“The ‘Holy Ghost’ remix

by Jeezy featuring Kendrick Lamar was produced without the knowledge or consent of T.D. Jakes, TDJ Enterprises, Dexterity Music or its associated companies,” the Facebook post explained. “We are taking the necessary legal actions to stop the unauBishop Jakes thorized use of T.D. Jakes’ intellectual property.”

The sampled clip features roughly 20 seconds of Bishop Jakes’ speech in the very beginning of the track.

Legal pundits don’t believe the lawsuit will hold its own in court, but the minister remains undeterred and unbowed.

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“I’m under attack, but I’m still on fire,” Bishop Jakes roared amid a thundering congregation.

“I’ve got some chatter, but I’m still on fire. I’ve got some threat, but I’m still on fire. I got some liabilities, but I’m still on fire. It’s not amazing that I’m on fire. I’ve been to hell and back, but I’m still on fire.”

While no reps for Bishop Jakes, 57, nor Young Jeezy or Mr. Lamar have commented publicly about the lawsuit, legal experts are not so sure the minister has a strong case.

“This sounds like a strong fair use case,” Los Angeles lawyer Jonathan Kirsch told the Daily News.

According to Mr. Kirsch, the 1994 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in favor of the Miami rap group 2Live Crew could be enough to let Young Jeezy and Mr. Lamar off the hook.

In that ruling, the judge decided that the group’s sampling of singer Roy Orbison’s “Oh, Pretty Woman” was fair use for parody purposes.

However, the Rosa Parks camp successfully sued groundbreaking rap group OutKast for using her name in one of their songs without her expressed permission.

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Muslim scholars present religious rebuttal to Islamic State

By Tom Heneghan Reuters

PARIS More than 120 Islamic scholars from around the world, many of them leading Muslim voices in their own countries, have issued an open letter denouncing Islamic State militants and refuting their religious arguments.

An array of Muslim leaders and groups have publicly rejected the Islamist movement since it imposed its brutal rule over large areas of Syria and Iraq this summer. Five Muslim nations also have joined a U.S.-led military campaign against it.

The 22-page letter, written in Arabic and heavy with quotes from the Quran and other Islamic sources, is just as clear as those groups in condemning the torture, murder and destruction Islamic State militants have committed in areas they control.

“You have misinterpreted Islam into a

religion of harshness, brutality, torture and murder,” the letter said. “This is a great wrong and an offense to Islam, to Muslims and to the entire world.”

The letter’s originality lies in its use of Islamic theological arguments to refute statements made by self-declared Caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and his spokesman Abu Muhammad al-Adnani to justify their actions and attract more recruits to their cause.

The letter is addressed to Caliph al-Baghdadi and “the fighters and followers of the self-declared ‘Islamic State,’” but is also aimed at potential recruits and imams or others trying to dissuade young Muslims from going to join the fight.

Nihad Awad of the Council on American Islamic Relations, which presented the letter in Washington last week, said he hoped potential fighters would read the document and see through the arguments of Islamic State recruiters.

“They have a twisted theology,” he said in

a video explaining the letter. “They have relied many times, to mobilize and recruit young people, on classic religious texts that have been misinterpreted and misunderstood.”

The 126 signatories are all Sunni men from across the Muslim world, from Indonesia to Morocco and from other countries such as the United States, Britain, France and Belgium.

Including Shi’ite or women signatories could have discredited the appeal in the eyes of the hardline Islamists it addresses.

Among those who signed were the current and former grand muftis of Egypt, Shawqi Allam and Ali Gomaa, former Bosnian grand mufti Mustafa Ceric, the Nigerian Sultan of Sokoto Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar and Din Syamsuddin, head of the large Muhammadiyah organization in Indonesia.

Eight scholars from Cairo’s Al-Azhar University, the highest seat of Sunni learning, also put their names on the document.

In the letter, the scholars not only denounced the killings of U.S. journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff and British aid worker David Haines as murder, but also rejected them based on the Muslim custom of protecting emissaries between groups.

The letter described as “heinous war crimes” several cases of militants killing prisoners, totalling at least 2,850. To stress this point in an Islamic way, it gave several quotes from the Prophet Mohammad forbidding such practices.

It said that Arab Christians and the Yazidis, followers of an ancient religion derived from Zoroastrianism, were both “people of the book” meant under Islamic sharia law to be protected.

Both groups were driven to flight as Islamic State militants swept across northern Iraq.

“Reconsider your actions, desist from them, repent from them, cease harming others and return to the religion of mercy,” the letter concluded.

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Chicago church gives congregants $500 each to multiply good

By Mary Wisniewski Reuters

windfall. Back in the 1970s, LaSalle Street and three other local churches helped support a multiethnic, multi-income housing development.

The development was sold in June in what is now a pricey neighborhood, and LaSalle Street received $1.6 million. Senior Pastor Laura Truax and church elders decided to take a 10th of that money and give it to 320 members and regular attendees. The church as a whole will decide what to do with the rest of the money.

Along with the so-called loaves and fishes checks, named for the biblical miracle in which thousands were fed with a small amount of

Churchgoers grumble that they always get hit with pleas for money. But congregants at a Chicago church this month got a surprise — they each received a check for $500, with instructions to go out and do something good with it.

“I was just in disbelief,” said Valency Hastings, 42, when she got her check from the nondenominational LaSalle Street Church on the city’s Near North Side. “The enormity of the responsibility of it has begun to sink in.”

The money was the result of a real estate

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wealthy to the homeless, so if someone wants to use the money for rent, that is OK, too.

Ms. Hastings, a freelance graphic designer who is planning her wedding, said she is “in debt up to my eyeballs,” but hopes to overcome the temptation to use the money for bills. She is thinking about using it to aid homeless gay and lesbian youths.

Rev. Truax said the money is an example of the God-given gifts people have that they need to use well.

“That’s what Jesus is offering us every day,” the pastor said. “You have this incredible gift in front of you.”

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food, recipients were asked to pray about how they could best spend the money.

“We asked people what they feel they’ve been called to do,” Rev. Truax said. She added that LaSalle is a strong social justice church, and “we had this amazing opportunity to invest in the kingdom in a big way.”

People who received checks have started sharing their thoughts about using them on an “idea wall” in the church basement. A group of doctors suggested sending the money to an Ebola clinic in Sierra Leone. Others plan to support CeaseFire, an anti-violence group.

Rev. Truax said congregants vary from the

Communion - 1st Sunday

Fall Revival and Homecoming

First Union Baptist Church 6231 Pole Green Road, Mechanicsville, VA 23116 (804) 746-4095 • Fax (804) 746-0347

Zion Baptist Church

Sunday, October 19, 2014

Celebrating 131st Church Anniversary

2006 Decatur Street, Richmond, VA 23224 • (804) 232-2867

Church School 8:45 a.m.

Worship Service 10:00 a.m.

REVIVAL

October 6-8, 2014

Every Monday & Tuesday Morning Prayer (605) 475-4000 424949#

Monday thru Wednesday 7 P.M. Nightly

Guest Evangelists Monday Rev. Darran Brandon, Pastor Little Zion Baptist Church, Carson, VA

Tuesday Rev. Kevin Cook, Pastor Broad Rock Baptist Church, Richmond, VA

Wednesday Dr. Tyrell O. Brown, Pastor Morning Star Baptist Church, Richmond, VA

An Evening of Gospel Jazz

Thursday Bible Study 11:30 a.m. & 7:00 p.m.

Friday, October 10, 2014 - 7:30 PM Featuring Ellerby Instruments

HOMECOMING

Sunday, October 12, 2014 • Morning Worship at 10 A.M.

Come visit us on Facebook at: First Union Baptist Church Rev. Lewis R. Yancey, II & First Lady Jewel Yancey Mechanicsville

(Dinner will be served immediately after Morning Worship)

Thirty-first Street Baptist Church

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

Sunday Morning Worship 11:00 a.m.

Come Join Us! Reverend Dr. Lester D. Frye Pastor and Founder

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

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

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

- Matthew 4:23

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Homecoming

Sunday, October 12, 2014 2:30 p.m.

Guest Preacher: Rev. Dr. Michael Johnson, of Pensacola, Florida

Revival

Monday-Thursday 7:00 p.m.

Revival Preachers: Rev. Duane Fields Rev. June Rice Rev. Dr. Jerome Ross Bishop Darryl Husband 823 North 31st Street Richmond, VA 23223 (804) 226-0150 Office www.31sbc.org

Richmond Free Press

October 2-4, 2014

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Legal Notices/Employment Opportunities City of Richmond, Virginia CITY COUNCIL PUBLIC NOTICE Notice is hereby given that the Council of the City of Richmond has scheduled a public hearing, open to all interested citizens, on Monday, October 13, 2014 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. 2014-94 As Amended To amend Ord. No. 2004325-304, adopted Nov. 22, 2004, as previously amended by Ord. No. 2006-105-183, adopted Jul. 10, 2006, which authorized the special use of the property known as 1619 and 1621 West Broad Street for a radio broadcasting studio and offices on the second floor, including an accessory antenna and a parking waiver, for the purpose of permitting a nightclub use, upon certain terms and conditions. The Master Plan recommends “Community Commercial” use for the subject property.

Ordinance No. 2014-156 As Amended To rezone the properties known as 1308 Sherwood Avenue [and 1213, 1215, 1217, 1219, 1221 and 1223 Brookland Parkway] from the R-3 Single-Family Residential District to the I Institutional District.

The Richmond Master Plan designates this property for Institutional uses, which include places of worship, private schools, universities, museums, hospitals and other care facilities.

Ordinance No. 2014-157 As Amended To conditionally rezone a portion of the property known as 6508 Jahnke Road (also known as the Bliley Property) from the R-2 Single-Family Residential District to the R-53 Multifamily Residential District (Conditional) and the remaining portion of such property from the R-2 Single-Family Residential District to the R-7 Single- and Two-Family Urban Residential District (Conditional), upon certain proffered conditions.

The proposed rezoning with the accompanied proffers would allow for a density of approximately 6.9 dwelling units per acre when considering the entire site. The Richmond Master Plan designates this property as a SingleFamily (Low Density) Housing Opportunity Area (HOA). The Single-Family (Low Density) designation establishes a residential density of up to 7 dwelling units per acre. The HOA designation indicates that the site is appropriate for residential development consistent with the underlying land use plan designation of single family residential.

Ordinance No. 2014-167 As Amended To amend and reordain ch. 58, art. IV of the City Code by adding therein a new div. 2 (§§ 58-111—58115), concerning an Affordable Housing Trust Fund Oversight Board, for the purpose of establishing the Affordable Housing Trust Fund Oversight Board.

Ordinance No. 2014-170 To authorize the Chief Administrative Officer, for and on behalf of the City of Richmond, to execute a Pole Attachment Agreement between the City of Richmond as licensor and NewPath Networks, LLC, as licensee for the purpose of attaching communications equipment to the City’s utility poles.

Ordinance No. 2014-171 To amend and reordain City Code § 90-2, concerning the design and construction standards for streets, sidewalks, public ways and public rights-ofway, for the purpose of requiring that such standards reflect the intent of the City that transportation improvement projects provide certain appropriate accommodations while promoting safe operation for all users.

Ordinance No. 2014-172 To provide for the granting by the City of Richmond to the person, firm or corporation to be ascertained in the manner prescribed by law, of the lease, franchise, right and privilege to use certain property located at 201 East Grace Street for parking in accordance with a certain Parking Lease.

Ordinance No. 2014-173 To name the planned pedestrian bridge across the James River to be located on Brown’s Island as the “T. Tyler Potterfield Memorial Bridge” in honor of T. Tyler Potterfield.

Ordinance No. 2014-174 To authorize the Chief Administrative Officer, for and on behalf of the City of Richmond, to execute an Amended NonExclusive License Agreement between the City of Richmond as licensor and Megabus Northeast, Continued on next column

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LLC as licensee for the purpose of increasing the license fee and extending Megabus Northeast, LLC’s non-exclusive right to use a certain bus stop, passenger boarding and waiting area at The Plaza directly across from Main Street Station.

Ordinance No. 2014-175 To amend Ord. No. 201462-99, adopted May 27, 2014, which adopted a General Fund Budget for Fiscal Year 2014-2015 and made appropriations pursuant thereto, to transfer $160,000 from the Department of Economic and Community Development and to appropriate $160,000 to the Richmond City Health District for the purpose of establishing and managing a community navigators program in Richmond Redevelopment and Housing Authority communities.

Ordinance No. 2014-176 To authorize the Chief Administrative Officer, for and on behalf of the City of Richmond, to execute a Performance Agreement between the City of Richmond, the Economic Development Authority of the City of Richmond and Warwick Townhomes, LLC, for the purpose of providing an economic development grant to facilitate the construction and operation of a residential development to be known as Townhomes at Warwick Place.

Ordinance No. 2014-177 To amend and reordain City Code § 98-121, concerning the levy of tax on real estate, to establish a tax rate of $1.18 for the tax year beginning Jan. 1, 2015.

Ordinance No. 2014-178 To amend and reordain City Code § 98-121, concerning the levy of tax on real estate, to establish a tax rate of $1.19 for the tax year beginning Jan. 1, 2015, pursuant to Va. Code § 58.1-3321(b), and increasing such rate from the Rolled Back Tax Rate of $1.189 as computed in accordance with Va. Code § 58.1-3321(a).

Ordinance No. 2014-179 To amend and reordain City Code § 98-121, concerning the levy of tax on real estate, to establish a tax rate of $1.19 for the tax year beginning Jan. 1, 2015, pursuant to Va. Code § 58.1-3321(b), and increasing such rate from the Rolled Back Tax Rate of $1.189 as computed in accordance with Va. Code § 58.1-3321(a).

Ordinance No. 2014-180 To amend and reordain City Code § 98-121, concerning the levy of tax on real estate, to establish a tax rate of $1.20 for the tax year beginning Jan. 1, 2015, pursuant to Va. Code § 58.1-3321(b), and increasing such rate from the Rolled Back Tax Rate of $1.189 as computed in accordance with Va. Code § 58.1-3321(a).

Ordinance No. 2014-181 To authorize the Chief Administrative Officer to accept funds in the amount of $37,500 from the Virginia Department of Criminal Justice Services; to transfer $37,500 in matching funds from the Fiscal Year 2014-2015 General Fund Budget, Department of Justice Services account; and to appropriate the total amount of $75,000 to the Fiscal Year 2014-2015 Special Fund Budget by increasing estimated revenues and the amount appropriated to the Department of Justice Services by $75,000 for the purpose of funding the implementation of a continual jail bed use planning process.

Ordinance No. 2014-182 To authorize the Chief Administrative Officer to accept funds in the amount of $24,750 from the Virginia Department of Criminal Justice Services; to transfer $2,750 in matching funds from the Fiscal Year 2014-2015 General Fund Budget, Department of Justice Services account; and to appropriate the total amount of $27,500 to the Fiscal Year 2014-2015 Special Fund Budget by increasing estimated revenues and the amount appropriated to the Department of Justice Services by $27,500 for the purpose of providing services for youth, staff training and equipment for a post-disposition program at the Juvenile Detention Center.

Ordinance No. 2014-183 To amend the pay plan adopted by Ord. No. 93-117-159 on May 24, 1993, to include a new classification of Director of Emergency Communications in the unclassified executive service.

Ordinance No. 2014-184 To declare a public necessity for and to authorize the acquisition of the parcel of real property owned by the Richmond Redevelopment and Housing Authority and known as 730 East Broad Street for the purpose of a municipal Continued on next column

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office building.

Ordinance No. 2014-185 To declare a public necessity for and to authorize the acquisition of the parcel of real property owned by the Richmond Redevelopment and Housing Authority and known as 101 East Franklin Street for the purpose of a public library.

Ordinance No. 2014-186 To declare a public necessity for and to authorize the acquisition of the parcels of real property owned by the Richmond Redevelopment and Housing Authority and known as 601 East Leigh Street, 406 North 7th Street and 408 A North 7th Street for the purpose of a sports complex and a convention center.

Ordinance No. 2014-187 To transfer and appropriate funds in the amount of $900,000 from the School Planning & Construction project in the Education category within the Fiscal Year 2014-2015 Capital Budget to the Fiscal Year 2014-2015 School Budget for expenditure by the School Board for technology purposes in accordance with the technology major classification for the purpose of providing for the installation of specific technology infrastructure and equipment in the new Huguenot High School.

Ordinance No. 2014-189 To authorize NewPath Networks, LLC, to encroach upon the public right-of-way with proposed overhead and underground fiber optic cables, guy wires, conduit, hand-holes and shortrange cellular transmission nodes encroachment, upon certain terms and conditions.

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

CUSTODY Order of Publication Henrico Couty Circuit Court Comomwealth of Virginia, in re Jessica Santana (name change minor) Leah MoRRIS v.

Thiago Santana Case No. CL14-1295 The object of this is to notify Thiago Andrade Lopes Santana of name change hearing.

It is ORDERED that Thiago Andrade Lopes Santana appear at the above-named court and protect his interests on or before November 7, 2014 at 9am.

ORDER OF PUBLICATION Commonwealth of Virginia Richmond Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court Commonwealth of Virginia, in re Cordelle damone coleman

The object of this suit is to: Terminate the residual parental rights (“RPR”) of John Lee Jones (Putative Father), Unknown Father and Belinda Coleman (Mother) of Cordelle Damone Coleman, child, DOB 02/27/14 “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 Lee Jones, Unknown Father, and Belinda Coleman appear at the above-named Court and protect his/her interest on or before November 24, 2014 at 11:20 a.m.

Ramona L. Taylor, Esq. 730 E. Broad St., 8th Floor Richmond, Virginia 23219 (804) 646-3493 ORDER OF PUBLICATION Commonwealth of Virginia Richmond Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court Commonwealth of Virginia, in re NEHEMIAH D. MAYES

The object of this suit is to: Terminate the residual parental rights (“RPR”) of Dontae M. Sanders (Putative Father) and Unknown Father of Nehemiah D. Mayes, child, DOB 11/11/10 “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 Dontae M. Sanders, Unknown Father, appear at the above-named Court and protect his interest on or before November 18, 2014 at 2:15 p.m.

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730 E. Broad St., 8th Floor Richmond, Virginia 23219 (804) 646-3493 Commonwealth of Virginia Richmond Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court Commonwealth of Virginia, in re TAJAHA RYQUAL WHITE

The object of this suit is to: Terminate the residual parental rights (“RPR”) of Wayne MacDonald (Putative Father) and Unknown Father (Father) of Tajaha Ryqual White, child, DOB 02/03/98 “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 Wayne MacDonald and Unknown Father, appear at the above-named Court and protect his/her interest on or before November 5, 2014 at 9:30 a.m.

Shunda T. Giles, Esq. 730 East Broad Street 8th Floor Richmond, Virginia 23219 (804) 646-3493 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE COUNTY OF Henrico ON THE 28TH DAY OF AUGUST, 2014 NATASHA L. JONES, Plaintiff v.

JAMES T. COPELAND, JR., Defendant Case No. CL14-2039 Order of Publication The object of the above-styled suit is to change the name of Inara Jamila Copeland to Inara Jamila Jones. And, it appearing by affidavit filed according to law that James T. Copeland, Jr., the above-named defendant, is not able to be located, it is therefore ORDERED that the said James T. Copeland, Jr. appear on or before the 24th day of October, 2014, in the Clerk’s Office of this Court and do what is necessary to protect his interests.

A COPY TESTE, Yvonne G. Smith, Clerk VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE COUNTY OF Henrico ON THE 28TH DAY OF AUGUST, 2014 NATASHA L. JONES, Plaintiff v.

JAMES T. COPELAND, JR., Defendant Case No. CL14-2038 Order of Publication The object of the above-styled suit is to change the name of Taj Khepre Copeland to Taj Khepre Jones. And, it appearing by affidavit filed according to law that James T. Copeland, Jr., the abovenamed defendant, is not able to be located, it is therefore ORDERED that the said James T. Copeland, Jr. appear on or before the 24th day of October, 2014, in the Clerk’s Office of this Court and do what is necessary to protect his interests.

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Divorce

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VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER COURTNEY WILLIAMS, Plaintiff v.

SHAYLA STUBBS, Defendant.

Case No.: CL14002086-00 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 6th day of November, 2014 at 9:00 a.m. and protect her interests.

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

LINDA GAIL ADAMS, Defendant.

Case No.: CL14-2125 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of the abovestyled suit is to obtain a divorce from the bonds of matrimony from the defendant on the grounds that the parties have lived separate and apart without interruption and without cohabitation for a period of more than one year, since September 29, 2003. And it appearing by Affidavit filed according to law that Linda Gail Adams, the above-named defendant, is not a residednt of this state and that due diligence has been used by or in behalf of plaintiff to ascertain in what county or city the defendant is, without effect.

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County of Henrico, 4301 East Parham Road, Henrico, Virginia 23273, on or before November 10, 2014 at 9 a.m. and do whatever necessary to protect her interest in this suit.

A Copy, Teste: YVONNE SMITH, Clerk I ask for this: Rudolph C. McCollum, Jr. VSB# 32825 P.O. Box 4595 Richmond, Virginia 23220 Phone - (804) 523-3900 Fax - (804) 523-3901 Order of Publication Commonwealth of Virginia City of Richmond Circuit Court Debbie Montes-Tovar v.

Rolando Tovar-Trujillo Case No. CL14-3091-7

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

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

It is ORDERED that Rolando Tovar-Trujillo appear at the above-named court and protect his/her interests on or before November 14, 2014 at 9:00 a.m.

A Copy Teste: Edward Jewett, Clerk VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER YESENIA FUENTES CENTENO, Plaintiff v.

ROBERTO LOPEZ MELENDEZ, Defendant.

Case No.: CL14002041-00 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 October, 2014 at 9:00 a.m. and protect his interests.

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Counsel for Plaintiff VSB# 27724 8460 Mount Eagle Road Ashland, VA 23005 (804) 798-9667

BIDS

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

REQUEST FOR BIDS For Lease, Franchise, Right and Privilege To Use 201 East Grace Street In the City of Richmond

The City of Richmond is seeking bids for the lease, franchise, right and privilege to use certain property located at 201 East Grace Street for parking in accordance with a certain Parking Lease, for a term of 40 years, subject to certain responsibilities to be imposed by lease and subject further to all retained rights of the City of Richmond.

All bids for the lease hereby offered to be granted shall be submitted in writing to the City Clerk’s office by 5:00 p.m. on Monday, October 13, 2014. Bids will be presented to the presiding officer of the Council of the City of Richmond on Monday, October 13, 2014, at 6:00 p.m. in open session and shall then be presented by the presiding officer to the Council and be dealt with and acted upon in the mode prescribed by law.

The City of Richmond expressly reserves the right to reject any and all bids.

The successful bidder shall reimburse the City for all costs incurred in connection with the advertisement of this ordinance in accordance with section 15.2-2101 of the Code of Virginia and shall post the bond required by the ordinance.

A copy of the full text of the ordinance is on file in the City Clerk’s office, and the full text of the ordinance and lease to be executed is available at: http://eservices.ci.richmond. va.us/applications/ c l e r k s t r a c k i n g / g e t P D F. asp?NO=2014-172

RFP# W150005433 – Cold Weather Day Warming Shelter Due Date: October 14, 2014 at 3:30 p.m.

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

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

Deputy Director Venture Richmond is seeking to fill the position of Deputy Director, which provides leadership in all aspects of Venture Richmond’s mission to build greater vitality in the Richmond community, particularly downtown, through economic development, marketing, festivals and events.

This position manages all of Venture Richmond’s riverfront responsibilities, including economic development coordination, property management, and canal boat operations, as well as the Clean & Safe program. The position oversees Venture Richmond’s property assets, construction activities and major contracts.

The position provides leadership for Venture Richmond’s Riverfront Committee, Education Committee, and Economic Participation Committee, among others.

Venture Richmond is seeking an exceptional leader with strong financial management skills, strong supervisory skills, and excellent communications, consensus building and interpersonal skills.

The ideal candidate will have experience dealing with local government leaders, business leaders, community groups and diverse constituencies. In addition, the best candidate will have a keen understanding of the real estate development process, as well as considerable experience managing large budgets and complex contracts.

Please address any questions or bids to:

Salary depends on qualifications and experience.

Send cover letter and resume by October 10 to: Venture Richmond 200 S. Third Street Richmond, Virginia 23219

Jean V. Capel, City Clerk City of Richmond 900 East Broad Street, Suite 200 Richmond, Virginia 23219 (804) 646-7955

The City of Richmond is seeking to fill the following positions:

The Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) is requesting proposals from firms to provide sign retroreflectivity and condition assessment services on an as-needed basis on roads maintained by VDOT. All proposals must be received by 2:00 PM, November 5, 2014, at the Virginia Department of Transportation; Central Office Mail Center-Loading Dock Entrance; 1401 East Broad Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219. A Mandatory Pre-proposal Conference will be held at 10:00 AM on October 8, 2014. For a copy of the Request for Proposals (RFP # 152043-MM), go to the website: www. eva.virginia.gov VDOT assures compliance with Title VI Requirements of non-discrimination in all activities pursuant to this advertisement.

For questions or additional information email: matthew.manion@vdot.virginia.gov

RICHMOND REGIONAL PLANNING DISTRICT COMMISSION REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS ON-CALL CONSULTING SERVICES FOR TRAVEL DEMAND MODELING ACTIVITIES RRPDC-RFP #15-01 Richmond Regional Planning District Commission/ Richmond Area Metropolitan Planning Organization will accept sealed proposals until 4:30 p.m. Friday, November 7, 2014 for a consultant to provide on-call travel demand modeling support services. Interested parties should have extensive experience in travel demand modeling, GIS, data collection & analysis and data visualization.

The Richmond Regional Planning District Commission reserves the right to reject any or all proposals submitted and also to make award where it appears to be in the best interest of the RRPDC. Submission requirements, background information, and mailing address, as well as the Commission’s Charter and Bylaws, are available at www.richmondregional.org. EOE.

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NY Yankees legend Derek Jeter ends stellar career on high note Free Press wire reports

BOSTON Derek Jeter stepped to bat for the final time in his magnificent 20-year career Sunday.

A runner was in scoring position in the third inning.

What else would you expect him to do in a clutch situation against the archrival Boston Red Sox? The superstar shortstop singled in the run.

Jeter, who strained a hamstring legging out an infield hit Saturday, was then replaced by slow-footed pinch runner Brian McCann in the game eventually won by the Yankees 9-5. The play marked the end of Jeter’s Major League Baseball career.

He was given a thunderous send-off to retirement, with the Fenway Park crowd chanting “De-rek Je-ter” and the Red Sox players applauding him.

“I’ve been a part of some chants here at Fenway Park,” Jeter said with a laugh, “but I don’t know if any of them were good.”

The Yankees captain, celebrated by his Boston rivals in a classy pre-game ceremony, waved his cap to the crowd, drawing one last roar of tribute before he was greeted with hugs by each teammate at the dugout.

The base hit, which Boston third baseman Garin Cecchini was unable to grab with his bare hand, gave Jeter 3,465 for his career — sixth on the MLB’s all-time list — as the 14-time AllStar left the game and began life as a spectator.

Jeter, 40, could have called it a career on a Hollywood high note after stroking a ninth-inning, walk-off winning single in his last at-bat at Yankee Stadium last Thursday in the team’s 6-5 win over Baltimore.

But there was one series left in the season, and Jeter said that out of respect to Boston, the fans and the Red Sox rivalry, he wanted to be in the lineup at Fenway.

Red Sox manager John Farrell said before the game that he was not surprised.

“It’s similar to the way I’ve seen him handle everything else that’s gone on in his career,” Farrell said.

“It’s with respect to the game, it’s with a grace and a dignity and an integrity that is probably unmatched by others. He sets the bar by which every young player should look up to and aspire to be.”

The Red Sox honored Jeter with an effort befitting one of their own. The team summoned some of its greatest former players, including Fred Lynn, Luis Tiant and Hall of Famers Carl Yastrzemski and Jim Rice, wearing their old Boston jerseys.

Other Boston sports champions came out to honor fivetime World Series winner Jeter, including Hockey Hall of Famer Bobby Orr of the Bruins, former Celtics standout Paul Pierce and Troy Brown, who picked up three Super Bowl

place where we’ve been an enemy for a long, long time,” Jeter said, “and for them to flip the switch this last time coming here made me feel extremely proud.”

Jeter was presented with a pair of cowboy boots, a Fenway base with pinstripes and his uniform No. 2 on it, a check for his Turn 2 Foundation and a strip of Green Monster wall metal signed by Red Sox players and embossed with “RE2PECT.” Another dignitary made a stirring appearance.

After a video was shown of Jeter taking the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge this season in the Yankees clubhouse, former Boston College baseball captain Peter Frates, who started the fundraising campaign, came out in a motorized wheelchair to greet the Yankees shortstop.

Jeter’s retirement at the close of the regular season signaled

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Left, New York Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter doffs his cap to the Fenway Park crowd Sunday. The Boston Red Sox honored Jeter before the game, his last in Major League Baseball. Above, Jeter’s loved ones watch the future Hall of Famer celebrate his game-winning RBI last Thursday at Yankee Stadium. The Yankees beat the Baltimore Orioles, 6-5, in Jeter’s last home game. From left: his girlfriend Hannah Davis; his mother, Dorothy Jeter; nephew, Jalen; and his father, Dr. Sanderson Charles Jeter.

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rings with the Patriots.

The entire Red Sox team poured out of the dugout and formed a line headed by slugger David Ortiz to individually congratulate Jeter.

“It was hard to envision what would happen because this is a

the end of an era.

He was the last connection to the Yankees’ stellar run of four World Series titles in five years from 1996 to 2000.

He and already-retired teammates Mariano Rivera, Andy Pettitte and Jorge Posada — known collectively as the “Core Four” — added a fifth Fall Classic ring in 2009.

Boston is the next most successful franchise since 1996, with three World Series titles.

“It’s hard to believe it’s his last game,” said Yankees manager Joe Girardi, a teammate of Jeter’s early in the shortstop’s career.

“Since a young man signing as a teenager, it’s really what he’s known. And it’s what we’ve known him to be, the Yankees shortstop, and it’s hard to believe it’s coming to an end.”

Rivalry brings out the spirit Everyone was having fun at Friday’s football game between Huguenot and George Wythe high schools at Armstrong.

That included the high-spirited Huguenot cheerleaders, left, and the rocking George Wythe band, right.

Photos by James Haskins/Richmond Free Press

By Joey Matthews

It was a classic showdown between two city rivals — George Wythe and Huguenot high schools.

And the nearly 800 students, family and friends packing the stands Friday night were ready for a great matchup — or dustup. After all, both of the South Richmond schools were hungry for a win.

The Wythe Bulldogs were riding high after recording their first win of the season, 18-6, over National Christian Academy in Maryland a week earlier. They finally had snapped a 26-game losing streak and were looking for a repeat.

The Huguenot Falcons were eager for their first win of the season. They’d already had four losses under coach Bryan Jennings. And they had beaten George Wythe every year since 1987.

George Wythe supporter Letitia Buster-Ford was cheering from the stands.

“I’m here to root for my son, Kane,” a tackle for the Bulldogs, “and to let people know that Richmond Public Schools is coming back,” said Ms. Buster-Ford, a 1987 Armstrong-Kennedy graduate.

“Richmond schools have been given such a bad name. We haven’t had any problems this year. And our coach, Frank Coston, is doing a great job.”

Across the field, Huguenot band member Jermaine Jackson also was excited, but for a different reason.

“I love when two schools with good bands collide,” said the senior tuba player. “It’s an ecstatic feeling.”

As the schools’ bands rocked, cheerleaders launched into high-stepping routines. The crowd loved it.

Students talked with friends, and on this fall evening, everyone enjoyed the spirited contest on the field.

When the dust settled, it was the Falcons

who got to celebrate a 32-14 win and enjoy a victorious bus ride back to their Forest Hill Avenue campus.

The supporting casts of both teams did their part to make it a memorable evening.

The 10-member George Wythe cheerleading squad, under the direction of school counselor Charnelle Smith, brought the team’s fans to their feet early and often, as did the marching band led by Nat Boyd.

Across the field, a dozen Huguenot cheerleaders provided an equally spirited boost to the school spirit of hundreds of Falcon fans.

Tiffany Garland, the Huguenot cheering squad’s coach, said she’s all about instilling “a culture of discipline and school spirit” in her squad.

Nearby, Huguenot teacher Johnathan Coward skillfully directed the 60 members of the Huguenot marching band as they kept the Falcon faithful entertained.

Isaiah Jerman and three other members of

the George Wythe Army JROTC presented the American flag prior to the game.

“I’m interested in the military and want to make a career in the Army or Marines,” said the junior.

Among those cheering the opening kickoff was Donald Cook, a member of the Community Care Unit with the Richmond Police Department.

He said he was there to “lend support” to Wythe football player Arie Carter and band member John Holt, participants in an RPD program known as the Young Adult Police Commissioners. The program mentors young people in such areas as college preparation, public speaking and developing better study habits, Mr. Cook said.

Perhaps the most valuable off-the-field performer was Purnell Spears. He provided colorful public address commentary from the press box.

He said he has been an ardent Wythe supporter for 35 years.

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