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Prayers go out to ‘Queen of Soul’

Icon Aretha Franklin reportedly is in hospice at her Detroit home; family at her bedside

Free Press wire reports

Prayers from across the nation and the around the globe are pouring in for legendary singer Aretha Franklin, who has fallen gravely ill.

Ms. Franklin, 76, a legendary gospel and R&B singer whose reign as the “Queen of Soul” spans more than 50 years, is under hospice care at her home in Detroit’s Riverfront Towers, according to publicist Gwendolyn Quinn.

Ms. Quinn declined to discuss Ms. Franklin’s ailment, but said, “She’s seriously ill.”

Fans, friends and fellow entertainers — from Mariah Carey, Chaka Khan, Rod Stewart and Tyler Perry to Lin-Manuel Miranda, Missy Elliott and Wayne Brady — posted prayers and positive wishes on social media after news spread early Monday of Ms. Franklin’s serious condition.

Family was reported to be at Ms. Franklin’s bedside, where she was visited Tuesday by fellow recording artist Stevie Wonder, civil rights leader Jesse Jackson Sr. and her ex-husband, actor Glynn Turman, her publicist said.

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ACLU calls for prohibition of ‘marijuana smell’ warrantless searches

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

Richmond Commonwealth’s Attorney Michael N. Herring is aware that police officers are using the claim of “I smell marijuana” to justify pat-downs of people and car searches, particularly “in poor communities of color.”

Devon Bryant, 5, left, and her 3-year-old sister, Myka, excitedly show their parents, Nora and Anthony Bryant, In response to a Free Press query, Mr. Herring also stated that how their origami boats float on the lily pond at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden in Henrico County. The family was enjoying the garden’s flower-filled pathways Monday. it is common for officers to testify in court about getting a whiff of that odor in explaining how they came to make an arrest.

He stated that he regards such odor evidence as “less reliable” than other kinds of evidence, adding that he and fiscal year on June 30. Added July 1, an amount far short the city’s assistant commonAs a result, $7.7 million for school maintenance.

By Ronald E. Carrington RPS Superintendent Jason to that was $1.6 million for of the $31 million the school wealth’s attorneys who try most is available immediately for A preliminary review of city school maintenance and repairs, Kamras was told only $825,000 school maintenance that Mayor administration had requested cases “all recognize that it is a purely subjective observation and Richmond Public Schools’ including $5.1 million for remained in the schools mainte- Levar M. Stoney included in the Please turn to A4 by the officer.” financial records has turned larger-ticket items such as new nance account at the end of the fiscal 2019 budget that started But he indicated such tesup $9.5 million that heating systems timony usually is accepted at possibly could be used and roofs. face value by his office. for maintenance and An additional Mr. Herring also declined to repairs at the city’s 44 $11.7 million also respond to a follow-up question public schools. would be available about whether he has raised The additional for school faciliany red flags with city Police funds were brought ties if City CounChief Alfred Durham about to light by city and RPS cil approves the patrol officers’ flagrant use of officials in a joint news transfer.

Mr. Kamras the marijuana smell excuse to release issued Aug. City Councilstop people and whether RPD 9. Officials said city and RPS woman Kristen N. Larson, a needs to consider whether this departments reconciled their former School Board member, is a good way to go about comschool capital maintenance and is credited with launching the munity policing. construction accounts, showing initiative to reconcile the books Chief Durham also did not that millions of dollars were after major differences surfaced respond to Free Press questions unspent during the fiscal year in the amounts RPS officials and about the smell tactic, which that ended June 30. city officials believed available appears to allow city officers to get around a 2015 U.S. Supreme Court decision limiting their ability to use a traffic stop as a reason to investigate other crimes.

Regina H. Boone/Richmond Free Press By citing the smell of mariMusic lovers stream out the Richmond Jazz Festival on Sunday when an early evening juana, officers can claim “reathunderstorm forced festival organizers to cancel the event with nine performers sonable suspicion that a crime remaining on the schedule. is being committed” and search a person and a vehicle without

By Jeremy M. Lazarus a warrant.

Once again, Richmond must deal with a potentially volatile Chief Durham has long gathering of neo-Confederates seeking to preserve the Confedercomplained about the failure ate statues on Monument Avenue.

By Ronald E. Carrington top acts, among them The Brian McKnight 4, of people to come forward Officials at City Hall and in the Richmond Police DepartMaze featuring Frankie Beverly, Nicholas Payton, with information to help dement have indicated they are aware and prepared to deal with tectives solve homicides and JMI is offering a discount on the purchase Eric B. & Rakim and Tony! Toni! Toné! any problems after two fringe organizations — the Virginia of general admission tickets for the 2019 At least nine groups had performed before other crimes.

Task Force of Three Percenters, known as the Dixie Defenders, However, the marijuana Richmond Jazz Festival after an early evening the festival was canceled. and the SCA III: The New Confederate States of America — smell pretext to search people announced they would rally at the monument to Confederate thunderstorm caused the festival to be canceled and their vehicles also ignores Photo coverage on B2 President Jefferson Davis from noon to 4 p.m. Sunday, Aug. last Sunday. its impact that allows officers Thousands of people enjoyed the first three 19, to show support for preserving it.

“It was a mess,” said Cheryl Rollins of the to harass African-American A recent report by Mayor Levar M. Stoney’s Monument days of the Richmond Jazz Festival, but Sunday’s drivers and pedestrians who Avenue Commission recommended that the Davis statue, lo- finale outdoors at Maymont was shut down about East End, who with her husband, Vincent, are are doing nothing wrong and cated at the intersection of Monument and Davis avenues, be 5 p.m. after torrential rains, accompanied by longtime festivalgoers.

The couple, who said they paid nearly $350 who may later shy from asremoved. The commission also recommended that signs providing high winds and severe thunder and lightning, sisting police in other matters, moved through the area.

Please turn to A4 Please turn to A4 People were disappointed to miss the evening’s Please turn to A4 Regina H. Boone/Richmond Free Press

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Free back-to-school health clinics scheduled Offering everything from vaccinations to physicals and dental and vision checkups, free health clinics will be held in the next two weeks to help ensure children are ready for the start of school, it has been announced.

In Richmond, CrossOver Healthcare Ministry, which has offered free health care since 1983, will start the ball rolling with two first-come, first-served clinics Friday, Aug. 17, and Saturday, Aug. 18.

The clinics are for children who are enrolled in Medicaid and/or FAMIS or have no insurance and are accompanied by a parent or guardian, CrossOver officials stated. Adults are asked to bring their children’s vaccination records.

The first no-charge clinic will be 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, at CrossOver’s clinic at 108 Cowardin Ave. Registration will be open through 11:30 a.m.

CrossOver plans to provide needed shots, vision and dental screenings and required physicals and to distribute donated school supplies.

A second, similar clinic will be held 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday at CrossOver’s Henrico location, 8600 Quioccasin Road near Regency Square mall.

The Richmond City Health District will follow with its own first-come, first-served back-to-school clinic 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friday, Aug. 24, at its headquarters, 400 E. Cary St. It is open to all.

Vaccinations will be available for children entering Head Start or VIEW programs or entering kindergarten.

Also, the city health district will provide booster shots for TDaP, tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis, that are required for rising sixth-graders to enter middle school.

The health district also will provide free physicals that are needed for school entry or Head Start through a partnership with the VCU School of Nursing. However, the district stated that it would not offer sports physicals at the event.

Henrico schools hosting back-to-school events Henrico County Public Schools is hosting a back-to-school rally and a series of meet-and-greet events with the new superintendent to get students and parents ready for the new school year.

Dr.Amy Cashwell, who took over as Henrico County’s new schools superintendent on July 1, will meet students, parents and community members at meet-and-greet sessions starting this week.

They will be held: Thursday, Aug. 16 — 4:30 to 5:30 p.m., Varina Area Library, 1875 New Market Road.

Monday, Aug. 20 — 4:30 to 5:30 p.m., Fairfield Area Library, 1001 N. Laburnum Ave. Tuesday, Aug. 21 — 5 to 6 p.m., Libbie Mill Library, 2100 Libbie Lake East St. Wednesday, Aug. 22 — 4:30 to 5:30 p.m., Tuckahoe Area Library, 1901 Starling Drive.

Dr. Cashwell also will host a series of town hall meetings in late September and early October, featuring a short presentation and an opportunity to ask questions or share ideas, Henrico schools officials stated.

The “Back-to-School Kickoff,” sponsored by the Henrico County Public Schools’ Department of Family and Community Engagement, will be held 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Dr. Cashwell Saturday, Aug. 18, at the Eastern Henrico Recreation Center, 1440 N. Laburnum Ave. The event will feature music, inflatables, family activities, a splash zone and food trucks.

Officials will be present to register students for school. Officials also will be on hand to talk about job opportunities with the school system and conduct initial interviews.

School step teams and drumlines also will be featured, along with a back-to-school pep talk by Highland Springs High School Coach Loren Johnson, whose football team has won three straight state championship titles.

Overflow parking will be available at nearby Harvie Elementary School, 3401 Harvie Road, with shuttles to the recreation center.

Details: http://henricoschools.us/

Fall registration still open for J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College will host “Registration Super Saturday” 8:30 a.m. to noon Saturday, Aug. 18, at it Downtown Campus, 700 E. Jackson St., and Parham Road Campus, 1651 E. Parham Road, in Henrico County.

Prospective students will be able to apply to the community college, register for classes, talk to an adviser and receive information on scholarships and financial aid at the event.

“For people who are still thinking about going to college this fall, this is a great opportunity to meet college advisers, program faculty and college staff who are dedicated to student success,” said Dr. Thomas Hollins, vice president of student affairs.

Details: www.reynolds.edu or (804) 371-3000.

Model farm field day Aug. 17

New technologies and farm production practices will be on display Friday, Aug. 17, at the National Black Growers Council Model Farm Series Field Day. The event, hosted by Haynie Farms, will be held at Upper Brandon Plantation in Spring Grove in Surry County.

Registration begins at 7:30 a.m., with the program starting at 8 a.m.

Upper Brandon Plantation is one of five model farms on the 2018 NBGC tour. Information will be available on conservation, biotechnology, risk management and farm financing. Attendees also can tour the facility’s learning stations that will include information on variety and hybrid selection for corn and soybeans, weed control, precision agriculture and farm data use and management. A scientist or expert will be at each station, along with a practicing farmer.

The program ends with a lunch at noon.

“NBGC’s mission is to improve the efficiency, productivity and sustainability of black, row-crop farmers” said P.J. Haynie, NBGC’s chairman and owner of Haynie Farms.

Details and reservations: Shenita Fauntleroy, (804) 724-3516 or hayniefarms2@gmail.com.

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Work continues on 17th Street Farmers’ Market

Despite the sign, the construction fencing around the Farm- frequent and heavier than anticipated. ers’ Market makes it hard to tell what businesses are still open She said it also took more time to coordinate the installation on North 17th Street in Shockoe Bottom. of new electrical lines and black fluted fiberglass power poles The fencing went up July 31, 2017, and is not expected to at the market with the five other projects being built or planned come down until mid-September. for the area. The other projects involved the development of the About $3.5 million is being spent to transform the nearly new GRTC Pulse station, installation of new water and sewer 240-year-old market into a European-style, open-air plaza and lines to expand capacity in Shockoe Bottom, creation of a bike event space, but the work is taking more time lane connection to the Virginia Capital Trail and than merchants and restaurant owners along the preparations for improvements to Franklin Street street expected. between Ambler and 18th streets.

The work was scheduled to take one year if all Meanwhile, other problems cropped up, went well, but city officials raised expectations that Slices of life and scenes most recently a break in an underground water in Richmond the work would be completed more quickly — drainpipe attached to the old YMCA building first in April and then in early June. The fencing adjacent to the market. The break essentially is now expected to be removed around Sept. 20, or two months unleashed water underground. That pipe had to be replaced in behind schedule, project manger Jeannie Welliver has said. order for new sidewalks to be completed, she said.

It’s akin to Monroe Park, where improvements that were After the fencing comes down, some work will remain, Ms. supposed to wrap up in June are still ongoing. Construction Welliver said, including planting trees in the plaza. fencing at the park is now expected to come down in the final Other pieces of the overall project also remain to be done, week of this month. she said, including the planned improvements to Franklin Street Ms. Welliver said the Farmers’ Market timetable was affected that will enable pedestrians and cyclists to travel under Main by bitter cold last winter as well as summer rains that were more Street Station’s train shed.

Cityscape

Mitchell named GRTC interim CEO GRTC has never had a female chief executive. Nor did any of its predecessor public transit companies.

That is not changing as the bus company moves to replace David Green, who announced last week that he would step down as GRTC’s chief executive officer at the end of the month.

According to GRTC spokeswoman Carrie Rose Pace, Sheryl Adams, the company’s chief operating officer, passed on the chance to serve as interim CEO and break the glass ceiling.

Ms. Pace said Ms. Adams was offered the interim position, but “expressed her desire to remain the COO and was, therefore, not made interim. This was Ms. Adams’ deciMr. Mitchell sion.”

On Tuesday, GRTC announced that Charles Mitchell, the company’s former chief operating officer, will come out of

retirement to lead the transit company during the search for the next top executive.

Mr. Mitchell served as interim CEO in 2013 for about six weeks between the departure of retiring CEO Eldridge Coles, now a GRTC board member, and the arrival of Mr. Green.

Mr. Mitchell retired in 2015 after 23 years with GRTC serving in various roles, including director of maintenance and operations manager. — JEREMY M. LAZARUS

GRTC proposes service improvement to Maymont-Randolph area A modest plan to restore a portion of the bus service that was cut from the MaymontRandolph area as part of GRTC’s overhaul of bus routes is headed to the board of the transit company for approval.

The proposal is one of the tweaks to service expected to be voted on when the six-member board meets Tuesday, Aug. 21.

The plan calls for extending weekday service an extra three hours on the Route 78 Cary/Maymont bus that serves the largely African-American community in the near West End. Under the plan, the route would operate from 5 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday through Friday, rather than service ending at 7 p.m., Garland Williams, GRTC’s director of planning and scheduling, confirmed Tuesday.

If approved by the board, the new hours would go into effect Monday, Sept. 17, along with other changes, he said. Those include new service to the Short Pump area in Henrico County that the county is paying for.

Mr. Williams declined to outline the other proposals for route changes to be included in the package for the board to consider.

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When pressed, he said none of the proposals involve service changes for routes serving Church Hill and the East End. Most of the Richmond changes would affect routes in North Side and Downtown, he said, without offering any specifics.

The proposed change to service in Maymont-Randolph follows an uproar from regular passengers used to being able to catch a bus to the community until 11 p.m.

They also saw GRTC eliminate bus stops, forcing elderly and disabled people to have longer walks to catch a bus or

disembark when returning home.

City Councilman Parker C. Agelasto, whose 5th District includes the MaymontRandolph area, initially believed the neighborhoods would have good bus service.

He supported residents who organized a community meeting with GRTC last month to air their grievances.

Mr. Agelasto said he is pleased that GRTC is proposing some improvement in service, but he still has questions.

Mr. Williams said GRTC recognized that the service cuts may have gone too far and impacted people who work later than 7 p.m.

The change follows GRTC’s new $1.2 million deal with Virginia Commonwealth University to provide free service to VCU students, faculty and staff, some of whom live in the Maymont-Randolph community situated south of the university.

However, the proposal falls short of what residents had hoped for, including restoring bus service until 11 p.m.

Mr. Williams said the proposal does not include restoration of any of the bus stops that were eliminated. He also confirmed that weekend and holiday service to the area will continue to run from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. — JEREMY M. LAZARUS

City to hold minority contractor workshop for new schools project The City of Richmond’s Office of Minority Business Development is holding a workshop for minority-owned and emerging small businesses to learn how to participate in the planned $110 million city school construction projects.

The workshop will be 5 to 7 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 22, at Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School, 1000 Mosby St.

The contractor and supplier workshop will provide information on the planned construction schedules and bid processes for the construction of two new elementary schools and one new middle school for Richmond Public Schools.

Details: LaQuiana Bailey, (804) 646-1875 or laquiana.bailey@ richmondgov.com.

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Prayers go out to Aretha Continued from A1

Owen Sweeney/Invision/AP file photo

A gaunt Aretha Franklin performs Aug. 26, 2017, at The Mann Center for the Performing Arts in Philadelphia. At the time, a person close to the singer said she was ill.

“Think,” has a long-standing professional relationship with Mr. Wonder, with whom she performed 13 years ago at the Annual Soul Train Lady of Soul Awards in Pasadena, Calif.

Ms. Franklin and Mr. Turman were married from 1978 to 1984.

Beyoncé, who was performing with her husband, Jay-Z, Monday night at Detroit’s Ford Field, dedicated her concert to Ms. Franklin, bringing the 40,000-plus strong crowd to its feet.

“We love you,” Beyoncé said, thanking the singer for “the beautiful music.”

DJ Khaled, who opened the show, drew cheers when he played Ms. Franklin’s 1967 breakthrough hit, “Respect,” that became a song of empowerment during the Civil Rights Movement.

Ms. Franklin has long been embraced by her hometown. Ford Field is near Aretha Franklin Way, the Detroit street named last summer for the singer.

On Tuesday and again on Wednesday, congregants at Detroit’s New Bethel Baptist Church, where Ms. Franklin’s father preached and where she sang as a child, held prayer vigils for Ms. Franklin.

Morning radio show host Tom Joyner, a longtime friend of Ms. Franklin, gives updates about her health daily on his national show and asks listeners to continue to pray for her. Playing in the background are some of her Top 10

hits, “I Say a Little Prayer,” “Natural Woman,” “Respect” and others.

Ms. Franklin has battled undisclosed health problems in recent years. She canceled planned concerts earlier this year after she was ordered by her doctor to stay off the road and rest. She was scheduled to perform on her 76th birthday in March in Newark, N.J., and at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival in April.

Last year, the icon announced her plans to retire, saying she would perform at “some select things.” One of these events was a New York gala in November for the 25th anniversary of Elton John’s AIDS foundation. Ms. Franklin closed the event with a collection of her songs.

In her heyday of the 1960s and 1970s, Ms. Franklin dominated the music charts with her hits, including “I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)” and “Baby, I Love You.” Fifty years later, her fans still love her.

“Your music has moved and inspired a generation,” Emmy Award-winning actor Sterling K. Brown said Monday. “So my prayers are with you. Wishing you all the best, queen.”

Former President Bill Clinton tweeted a request Monday night.

“Like people all around the world, Hillary and I are thinking about Aretha Franklin tonight and listening to her music that has been such an important part of our lives the last 50 years.

We hope you’ll lift her up by listening and sharing her songs that have meant the most to you,” he wrote.

ACLU calls for prohibition of ‘marijuana smell’ warrantless searches Continued from A1

advocates say.

Indeed, there is anecdotal evidence that Richmond Police officers no longer find traffic violations as a means to stop people and, instead, are relying on the claim of smelling marijuana to make a traffic stop and conduct a search.

In a Richmond Police stop on Aug. 2 of community and gardening activist Duron Chavis, Mr. Chavis said the officers never suggested he had violated a traffic law in conducting a search of his vehicle. He said they relied solely on the “smell of marijuana” claim.

Details of the incident were reported in the Aug. 9-11 edition of the Free Press.

That’s also what happened to Ron Timmons. He caught a ride home with friends to his parents’ home in Carver, only to have a Virginia Commonwealth University police officer pull up with lights flashing to conduct a search of the vehicle. The officer claimed he smelled marijuana when the car passed him on a nearby street.

Mr. Timmons, 29, a youth outreach coordinator for St. Elizabeth’s Catholic Church, said the officer never said there had been a traffic violation.

“It was all about the smell of marijuana,” Mr. Timmons recalled.

He said while he refused to be searched, the officer searched his two friends and the car after more officers arrived.

He said police “found nothing.”

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“It was just ridiculous,” Mr. Timmons said.

Such examples have led the American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia to call for policy changes to prevent unwarranted searches.

“We believe that police departments should adopt policies that prohibit these kinds of pretextual stops,” Claire Guthrie Gastañaga, executive director of the constitutional watchdog organization, stated in an email to the Free Press.

Ms. Gastañaga stated that departments in Richmond and elsewhere “should require officers to document that they have independent probable cause to believe a crime has been committed before conducting a search or seeking consent to do so.”

She wrote that one reason the ACLU “supports legalizing marijuana or, at a minimum, removing all criminal penalties and civil fines from simple possession and use, is our concern about the escalating and racially disproportionate use of ‘smelling

More money found for city school maintenance Continued from A1

for repairs.

At its Aug. 6 meeting, the School Board expressed concern that it was wiping out almost a fifth of its maintenance budget when it approved $277,000 to replace a leaky roof at Fairfield Court Elementary School.

The newly found money will give the board a little breathing room.

School Board Chairwoman Dawn Page said the reconciliation gives the board greater clarity about the money available for critical maintenance Ms. Page needs.

“We appreciate the collaboration with the city toward a common goal of providing a welcoming and enriched learning environment for the students and families we serve,” Ms. Page stated.

“This certainly will allow us to develop a plan of action and to request the necessary budget amendments to address the most pressing needs of the school district.”

“It is really tragic in the past that RPS and the city administration did not work together, but worked in silos. This is one example of it,” School Board member Jonathan Young, 4th District, told the Free Press.

“We now have a mayor and superintendent committed to doing things very differently,”

Mr. Baugh

marijuana’ as a justification for traffic stops and stop-and-frisk” activities.

“It is time to remove this misused ‘tool’ from the police arsenal,” she stated.

Massachusetts’ highest court has struck down the tactic. It also is much harder to use in states like Maryland and North Carolina that no longer make personal possession of small amounts of marijuana a crime.

David Baugh, a well-known Richmond area criminal defense attorney, also supports having police back off use of the smell claim.

He said judges and prosecutors never hear about all the stops police conduct in which nothing is found.

“Then there is no arrest,” he said. “The officers just leave,” leaving behind upset people who see their race or ethnicity as the reason they were targeted, he said.

In Mr. Baugh’s view, police overuse of the marijuana smell claim has shredded protections of the U.S. Constitution’s Fourth Amendment against searches without a court warrant.

Mr. Baugh also expressed concern that prosecutors are skating close to “suborning perjury,” or allowing a witness to lie, by allowing officers to testify about smelling marijuana without any supporting evidence.

Mr. Baugh said he and other attorneys often challenge such smell testimony in seeking to get evidence suppressed. But he said such challenges rarely work because judges mostly accept the word of police officers.

“Something needs to be done about it,” he said.

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context be added to the four other statues of Confederates on Monument Avenue.

Neo-Confederates who turn out for the rally are expected to be greeted by counterprotesters from groups such as the Virginia Defenders for Freedom, Justice & Equality.

This will be the fourth rally the Tennessee-based CSA II has staged or participated in during the past 12 months. Each time, the neoConfederates, who typically muster fewer than 15 people, have been vastly outnumbered by counterprotesters carrying signs and calling for the hate groups to go home and the statues to come down.

Up to 50 statue supporters are expected to attend Sunday’s rally.

The CSA II noted on its website that militia groups are “invited and welcomed.”

At this point, the city is barred from acting on the commission’s recommendations because of a state law that protects Confederate statuary.

Whatever happens, CSA II already has announced plans for another rally from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 15, at the Lee statue at Allen and Monument avenues to mark the one-year anniversary of their first appearance in Richmond and seek support for all the statues.

he said.

School officials would not say this week whether some of the money will be allocated to Project Shine, the superintendent’s initiative to spruce up the city’s 44 school buildings before school opens. The project’s goal includes repairing all the bathrooms systemwide so that all are functional and restored by the beginning of the school year.

Mr. Kamras has enlisted the help of local businesses, community organizations and volunteers for the weeklong bathroom blitz slated to begin Monday, Aug. 20, and run through Friday, Aug. 24.

Ms. Larson In an update Wednesday, RPS officials said 923 volunteers from 13 organizations have signed up to help and more are anticipated. Corporate and community volunteers include Capital One, Anthem, Altria, National Association of Blacks in Criminal Justice, Office Depot, T-Mobile, Virginia Union University, Virginia Commonwealth University Division of Community Engagement, Yardworks, STAY RVA; United Church RVA and the Virginia Department of Social Services.

These volunteers will cover 22 of the system’s 44 schools, officials said.

The School Board is scheduled to receive an update on Project Shine at its meeting 6 p.m.

Monday, Aug. 20, at City Hall.

Discounts available after Sunday storm cancels Richmond Jazz Festival Continued from A1

for tickets for Saturday’s and Sunday’s concerts at Maymont, arrived at the festival Sunday to find patrons were being directed to leave the grounds.

“People were trying to drive off while GRTC buses were trying to get through to pick up others.”

The festival’s website and tickets say the festival would go on “rain or shine,” which the couple said they understood. They said they expected the show would go on.

They were angry, they said, when they were sitting at home after the rain ended before 7 p.m., well before Maze was scheduled to perform.

They said they want their money back.

“The decision to cancel the remaining performances on Sunday evening was a difficult one, one we always hope we never have to do. But our patrons’ safety is always our No. 1 concern,” Frances C. Burruss, senior account manager with JMI, told the Free Press Monday.

She said Sunday ticket holders will be eligible for a 50 percent discount on general admission

tickets for either Saturday or Sunday at next year’s festival.

To claim the discount, patrons must fill out a form with their name, email address and their ticket ID number or confirmation number from Sunday.

Details and a form are posted at https:// richmondjazzfestival.com/discount2019.

“The information will be collected through Sept. 15, and then we will start sending out the codes people can use to purchase the tickets for next year with the 50 percent discount,” Ms. Burruss said.

“We will keep our followers informed on social media and the Richmond Jazz Festival app, which is still available for download.”

This was the ninth year for the popular festival, sponsored by the former Johnson Marketing Inc., owned by Ken Johnson and now known as JMI. According to the event’s website, a portion of the proceeds from the festival benefit the Maymont Foundation and Blue Stone Education Foundation.

Free Press staff writer Jeremy M. Lazarus contributed to this report.

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White nationalist rally sputters in D.C. on anniversary of bloody Charlottesville protest Free Press wire report

WASHINGTON A white nationalist rally in the heart of Washington drew two dozen demonstrators and thousands of chanting counterprotesters last Sunday, the one-year anniversary of deadly, racially charged violence in Charlottesville, Va. A large police presence kept the two sides separated in Lafayette Square in front of the White House. After two hours and a few speeches, the “Unite the Right 2” rally ended early when it began to rain and two police vans took the demonstrators back to Virginia.

Sunday’s events, while tense at times, were a far cry from the street brawls that broke out in downtown Charlottesville a year ago, when 32-year-old paralegal Heather Heyer was killed by a white supremacist who drove his car into a crowd of counterprotesters. The man, James A. Fields Jr. of Ohio, was indicted in late June on federal hate crime charges. He was charged last year in a Charlottesville court with first degree murder in Ms. Heyer’s death. Dozens of other people were injured in the attack.

“Unite the Right 2” organizers had been denied a permit to hold a rally in Charlottesville on the anniversary, but secured one for Washington. Organizers planned for up to 400 protesters.

At the head of the white nationalist group is University of Virginia graduate Jason Kessler, who helped organize last year’s event in Charlottesville. On Sunday, he emerged with a handful of fellow demonstrators from a subway station holding an American flag and walked toward the White House ringed by police, while counterprotesters taunted the group and called them Nazis.

Dan Haught, a 54-year-old computer programmer from Washington, held a sign saying, “Back under your rocks you Nazi clowns.”

“We wanted to send a message to the world that we vastly outnumber them,” Mr. Haught said.

Police said at 6 p.m. Sunday that no arrests had been made in connection with the rally. Late in the day, a small group of counterprotesters clashed with police in downtown Washington.

The violence last year in Charlottesville, sparked by white nationalists’ outrage over a plan to remove statues of Confederate generals from two public parks, convulsed the nation and sparked condemnation across the political spectrum. It also was one of the lowest moments of President Trump’s first year in office.

Following the deadly rally, President Trump said there were “very fine people” on both sides, spurring criticism that he was equating the counterprotesters with the rally attendees, who included neo-Nazis and other white supremacists.

On Saturday, President Trump condemned “all types of racism” in a Twitter post marking the anniversary.

Mr. Kessler said Sunday’s rally was aimed at advocating for “free speech for everybody,” and he blamed last year’s violence in Charlottesville on other groups and the media.

He said he thought Sunday’s rally went well in comparison.

“Everybody got the ability to speak and I think that was a major improvement over Charlottesville,” Mr. Kessler told Reuters. “It was a precedent that had to be set. It was more important than anything.”

The counterprotest that began earlier in the day was a smattering of diverse groups — from black-clad anti-fascists, to supporters of the Black Lives Matter movement to families who brought children in strollers. Tourists took pictures and both protesters and observers zoomed around on electric scooters.

Sean Kratouil, 17, of Maryland, wore a vest with “Antifa” on the back. He said he was there to help start a movement of peaceful anti-fascists.

He said he was concerned that when rallies turn violent, it makes his side look bad.

“Public perception is key,” he said.

On Saturday in the picturesque college town of Charlottesville, hundreds of police officers maintained a security perimeter around the normally bustling downtown district throughout the day. Vehicular traffic was barred from an area of more than 15 city blocks, while pedestrians were allowed access at two checkpoints where officers examined bags for weapons.

But late in the day and Saturday evening, hundreds of U.Va. students and activists took to the streets. Many of the protesters directed their Flowers adorn the curbside memorial Saturday in Charlottesville’s anger at the heavy police presence, with chants downtown where 32-year-old Heather Heyer was killed and dozens of like “cops and Klan go hand in hand.” others were injured on Aug. 12, 2017, by a white nationalist who drove his car into a crowd of counterprotesters.

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Hundreds of students and activists march down Rugby Road in Charlottesville on Saturday, marking the year anniversary of the bloody violence that broke out during last year’s rally by white supremacists, Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazis. Below, a University of Virginia student expresses her disgust at State Police who blocked off part of the campus Saturday where white supremacists carrying torches attacked members and supporters of Black Lives Matter last August.

Local police and the Virginia State Police were harshly criticized for their failure to prevent the violence last year.

On Sunday morning, activist Grace Aheron, 27, donned a Black Lives Matter T-shirt and joined hundreds of fellow Charlottesville residents who gathered at Booker T. Washington Park to mark the anniversary of last year’s bloodshed.

“We want to claim our streets back, claim our public space back, claim our city back,” Ms. Aheron said at the park.

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The African-American community has long lived with the trauma of police harassment and abuse.

Civil rights leaders and lawyers have pushed back for decades to end these deplorable, and many times, unconstitutional, practices.

Now we are disturbed by what seems to be a growing, harassing police tactic in Richmond — police stopping motorists based on the allegation they smell marijuana. These fake weed smells are then used as a pretext to search the person and his or her vehicle without a warrant.

The experiences of several innocent motorists who were stopped and searched by police under these false pretexts have been reported in the Richmond Free Press.

While courts have held that the smell of marijuana offers a “reasonable suspicion” for police to justify a search, we believe many officers are relying upon fabricated detections of marijuana odors to conduct searches in a bid to find drugs, weapons or other illegal contraband.

These false claims and searches by police amount to harassment — largely of young AfricanAmerican men — and only serve to undermine the efforts of Police Chief Alfred Durham to build a better relationship between police officers and the community.

How can residents trust the police when they are pulled over and searched on the basis of lies?

An article published in 2016 in the University of California, Davis Law Review notes that such invasive policing can be traced to tactics developed during the 1980s and 1990s as the government ramped up the “war on drugs.”

According to the article by Alex Kreit, the Drug Enforcement Administration developed a training program, Operation Pipeline, to teach state and local police how to use such pretexts to stop motorists believed to be transporting illegal drugs.

Police, he wrote, have a profit motive for these pretextual stops. By using these fake marijuana smells to stop and search motorists, officers potentially can find a drug dealer and then boost local police coffers by seizing the person’s assets. The article talked about a small town in Texas that amassed $1.3 million in seized profits within six months of using pretextual stops of mostly outof-town drivers.

One of the ways to largely reduce such stops, the article states, is to legalize marijuana.

In June, the Congressional Black Caucus called for decriminalizing the possession and use of marijuana and the automatic expungement of the criminal records of those convicted of misdemeanor marijuana possession.

The war on drugs, the CBC chairman said, has been a failed war that ravaged black and brown communities in America. Black communities, the CBC stated, have been disproportionately policed and convicted for drug offenses, and marijuana reforms would reduce the numbers of black people in prison.

Richmond Police officials have offered no data detailing the context for the many police stops conducted each day. But we believe Chief Durham and the department should collect such information to get a real picture of what’s happening with police-citizen interactions. Then that information should be released to the public, without enhancing or varnishing the truth. It would go a long way to fostering the transparency and accountability the department espouses and the public demands.

We also support the ACLU’s efforts to rid Virginia police departments of these warrantless searches.

Police departments nationally and locally are battling criticism of officers’ harassment and abuse, particularly of African-Americans. While we all want safer neighborhoods, we don’t want police to manufacture justifications to stop people and search them and their vehicles. In the long run, such tactics only hurt our people and our community and tarnish our city.

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Finding the moral center The media is now reporting on the debate among Democrats and activists about what the party should stand for and how it will win elections. Establishment Democrats are said to fear that the populist reform energy represented

by Bernie Sanders and rising star Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — who upset Rep. Joe Crowley, the fourth-ranking Democrat in the House, in a New York City primary — will turn off the moderate, upscale, white suburban Republicans who they believe are appalled by President Trump and the key to taking back the Congress.

A Wall Street-funded group known as the “Third Way” — which might better be known as the “Wrong Way” because it has been wrong about every major issue facing the country over the last few years, championing disastrous corporate trade deals, deregulation of Wall Street and the Iraq War among other calamities — convened a small gathering co-hosted by a billionaire real estate developer

to map out how to counter what the media describes as the left.

The very terms of this debate are misleading.

Ideas that have broad public support, such as tuition-free college, are labeled as “left.”

Ideas that offend philosophical conservatives, such as subsidies to big oil companies, are tagged

Jesse L. Jackson Sr. as on the right, championed by Republicans.

We’d be wiser to focus on common sense and basic principles.

When Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke forcefully against what he called the “triple evils” of “racism, economic exploitation and militarism,” he was criticized for weakening the cause of civil rights, for getting out of his lane by talking about economic inequality and against the Vietnam War. He responded, “I’m against segregation at lunch counters, and I’m not going to segregate my moral concerns.”

Cowardice, he taught us, asks the question “Is it safe?” Expediency asks, “Is it politic?” Vanity asks, “Is it popular?” Conscience

asks, “Is it right?”

We are a nation faced with great perils. Inequality has reached new extremes and, even with the economy near full employment, working people still struggle simply to stay afloat. Big money corrupts our politics and distorts our government. We are mired in wars without end — 17 years in Afghanistan and counting — and without victory or sense. We have a president who believes he profits politically by spreading racial division, appealing to our fears rather than our hopes.

This is the time for citizens and for true leaders to move not left or right, to the expedient or the cautious, but to the moral center.

Affordable health care for all isn’t left or right, it is the moral center. Jobs that pay a living wage, affordable housing, public education, college without debt, clean water and air, action to address catastrophic climate change that literally may endanger the world — these are not ideas of the right or left. They are the moral center.

Holding to the moral center has its own power. Opposition to slavery started as a minority position, but its moral force was

No dignity in pastors’ meeting with Trump “Many of us have been indicted, arrested and our homes bombed, but when we stand before the Negro population at prayer meetings, we can repeat that it is an honor to face jail for a just cause.”

If only those words of just causes and sacrifices of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the actions of thousands of others— both black and white—had seared the souls of the AfricanAmerican preachers who met with President Trump on Aug. 1, they could not have praised a man who has vulgarly demeaned women, executed a policy locking brown kids into cages and labeled black African homelands as “sh**holes.”

Yet their skunk-like presence could not have hit so hard if more of the authentic preachers who fancy themselves as moral leaders had stood up forcibly to the obscenity of the Trump brand.

In the vacuum of leadership, the skunk-like pastors just walked into the tea party, became intoxicated by having a seat at the table and left a smelly scent over the just causes of AfricanAmerican communities.

The meeting was organized

by Pastor Paula White of Florida, a white evangelical Trump sup-

porter, to discuss prison reform, but it made no mention of the racial injustice that fuels it nor why black NFL players protesting the broken criminal justice

Barbara Reynolds system are called SOB’s by the president.

No dissent was voiced as one pastor praised President Trump as one of the most “problack” presidents and belittled former President Obama, the nation’s first African-American president.

While Dr. King’s name was bandied about in the meeting, the ministers should have emulated him by speaking forcefully as moral leaders with an agenda that should have included taking President Trump to task for his consistent disparaging of black people, including CNN’s Don Lemon, Congresswoman Maxine Waters of California and the NBA’s LeBron James as dumb or low-IQ individuals. While this character assassination may energize Trump’s base, it also helps make African-Americans vulnerable to hateful acts of harassment and discrimination.

Dr. King and his disciples often had a seat at the table meeting with presidents, but they were accountable to those who depended upon them to address their pain. In high level meetings, the King aides worked to control the content of the

agenda, searching for a win-win position. Only if that failed did direct action of boycotts and or marches follow.

A model of Dr. King’s nonviolent methods was a meeting with President John F. Kennedy, which resulted in the 1963 March on Washington after the president did not agree to forcibly press Congress to pass a strong federal civil rights bill. President Kennedy’s initial reaction, reportedly, was that the march was ill-timed. But the movement leaders decided there is no right time for injustice. The march resulted in the bill signed into law on July 2, 1964.

“It was a matter of dignity,” Ms. Parks said. “I could not have faced myself, or my people, if I had moved.”

The black preachers who met with President Trump apparently march to a different beat. But despite their failings, they are only part of the problem because some black church leaders and major civil rights groups who carry weight in the black community have not raised their voices loud enough or cemented a strategy to counter the abuses of President Trump and the GOP leaders who protect him.

So, what happens when there is silence among the righteous?

The ugly truths have a party and convince themselves of their greatness.

The writer is an ordained minister, educator and columnist for USA TODAY.

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undeniable. Integration seemed impossible in the segregated South, but its moral force could not be denied.

In this time of troubles, I believe that Americans in large numbers are looking for leaders who will embrace the moral center, not the expedient, the safe or the fashionable. They are looking for champions who will represent them, not those with deep pockets. That may be the final irony. The most successful political strategy may well be not to trim to prevailing opinion or compromise with entrenched interests but to stand up forcefully for what is right.

The writer is founder and president of the National Rainbow PUSH Coalition.

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Carver Elementary’s ‘enemies are internal’ Re Letter to the editor, “Carver Elementary’s success became ‘a target on its back,’ ” Free Press Aug. 9-11 edition: Like many others, I could not have been more disappointed in the behavior of teachers and administrators over the Standards of Learning debacle, especially because I was a student at Carver Elementary School the very first year it opened.

I reflected on the wonderful, committed and honest teachers who have served Carver’s children over these many years. It may be referred to as the “peanut” school because of the genius of George Washington Carver, but our teachers “sowed” many acorns into us which grew into mighty “oaks” of responsible citizens, professionals and community leaders serving in many capacities across this country and around the world.

Sadly, Mr. Preddy Ray seemed to blame everyone except the alleged perpetrators in the SOL scheme. He even asserted that 9-year-olds could not be counted on to tell the truth. Children know what winks and smiles mean, but they wouldn’t have the moral maturity to discern the surreptitious nature of the scheme behind those winks and smiles.

Children cannot “stand tall” when their own educators diminish the quality of education and their moral strength by teaching them that success is assured by cheating.

The educators’ behavior did not just cheat the students out of an honest measure of their academic abilities, but it cheated them out of greater self-esteem, a greater sense of honesty and a greater drive for excellence.

No teacher or administrator can calculate the level of diminishment these children might experience in subsequent years of their lives.

Sadly, the ones who most strongly believe that Gilpin Court kids cannot learn as well as others seem to be their own teachers, otherwise they would not have succumbed to teaching them to cheat instead of teaching more pertinent subject matter.

Sadly, Carver’s enemies are internal. Children cannot “stand tall” as long as their own teachers cut their learning legs out from under them. These alleged conspirators have one primary agenda — their own jobs and well-being.

Teaching, evidently, is not their agenda. They are the failure, not the children!

Carver was great before the SOLs and it will rise to greater success in spite of this unfortunate incident. Current and future teachers must be reminded that children are in school to learn, not lie.

The wider Richmond community has poured so much into this school and remains proud of its many accomplishments. We shall overcome.

DR. PAIGE LANIER CHARGOIS Richmond

Homeless services should be under one roof According to state statistics, there were 1,394 homeless students in Richmond Public Schools in 2016-17. Chesterfield County and Henrico County had 715 and 986 homeless students, respectively.

One homeless individual is one too many.

The McKinney-Vento Act identifies students as homeless if they do not have shelter and also students who do not have a stable place to live, for example, moving from place to place.

We must do better than this. The act requires that support services be provided to homeless students, but our goal should be permanent housing for them and their families.

All of the homeless service providers, our leaders and the community must come together to find a solution. We must search for models that work.

Kansas City reduced the number of homeless

students by 25 percent by instituting “Impact Wednesday,” when all homeless service providers come together at a center each Wednesday to create a single stop for services. School district families are referred to the center for “wraparound” services. Each family is guaranteed a case manager to assist them.

All of the homeless providers should be under one roof, even if it is just for one day out of the week. Parents must be helped with employment, housing, medical care, child care, educational classes, government benefits, nonprofit assistance, etc. The goal: Permanent housing for the family.

This is a crisis of morality. Our community is measured by how we treat the least of these — our brothers, our sisters and our children.

TONNIE VILLINES Henrico County

NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC OF VIRGINIA ELECTRIC AND POWER COMPANY’S PETITION FOR A PRUDENCY REVIEW WITH RESPECT TO THE COASTAL VIRGINIA OFFSHORE WIND PROJECT CASE NO. PUR-2018-00121 On August 3, 2018, Virginia Electric and Power Company d/b/a Dominion Energy Virginia (“Dominion” or “Company”), filed a petition (“Petition”) with the Virginia State Corporation Commission (“Commission”) for a prudency determination pursuant to § 56-585.1:4 F of the Code of Virginia (“Code”) and for other associated approvals, as needed. The Petition relates to proposed Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (“CVOW”) generation facilities consisting of two 6 megawatt (nominal) wind turbine generators located approximately 27 statute miles (about 24 nautical miles) off the coast of Virginia Beach in federal waters and the related generation and distribution interconnection facilities (“CVOW Interconnection Facilities”), which include a smaller subset of generation interconnection facilities that are located entirely within the Commonwealth of Virginia (“Virginia Interconnection Facilities”) (collectively, the wind turbine generators and CVOW Interconnection Facilities, inclusive of the Virginia Interconnection Facilities, comprise the “CVOW Project” or “Project”).

Dominion’s proposed CVOW Project would be located on a research lease site provided by the United States Bureau of Ocean Energy Management and held by the Virginia Department of Mines, Minerals, and Energy. According to Dominion’s Petition, the proposed CVOW Project would be interconnected at 34.5 kilovolts (“kV”) (i.e., distribution level). Specifically, Dominion’s proposed CVOW Interconnection Facilities would begin with a 34.5 kV alternating current (“AC”) submarine cable that would interconnect the two wind turbine generators to one another, and to an approximately 27-mile long, 34.5 kV AC submarine distribution cable (“Export Cable”), which would connect to an onshore transition point located on Camp Pendleton State Military Reservation at an interface cabinet (“Beach Cabinet”) in Virginia Beach, Virginia. From the Beach Cabinet, a 34.5 kV underground cable (“Onshore Interconnection Cable”) would continue onshore for approximately 1.2 miles, terminating at an interconnection station (“Interconnection Station”), where switches, auxiliary equipment, and a metering cabinet would be installed.

The Virginia Interconnection Facilities would comprise, starting from the Virginia jurisdictional line demarcating state-owned submerged lands, approximately 3.6 miles of Export Cable, the Beach Cabinet, the approximately 1.2-mile Onshore Interconnection Cable, and the Interconnection Station. From the Interconnection Station, the proposed CVOW Project would interconnect with the Company’s existing distribution system via a new 34.5 kV underground line, approximately one-quarter mile in length, to a new terminal pole on nearby existing distribution Circuit (“Cir.”) 421, which terminates with the Company’s existing Birdneck Substation. Dominion proposes to replace relays inside the existing control house at Birdneck Substation to ensure Cir. 421 has proper protection to accept reverse flow from the wind turbine generators onto the Company’s system (collectively, “Distribution Grid Facilities”).

Dominion asserts that the Virginia Interconnection Facilities and Distribution Grid Facilities are extensions or improvements in the usual course of business under Code § 56-265.2 and, therefore, do not require approval from the Commission. Moreover, Dominion asserts that while Code § 56-585.1:4 F provides for a prudency determination as to construction of certain wind generation facilities, there is no requirement within Code § 56-585.1:4 directing the utility to seek a certificate of public convenience and necessity or any other type of approval for electric facilities related to the proposed CVOW Project. Dominion asserts that the Commission’s duty to ensure that the effects of the Virginia Interconnection Facilities on the environment are minimized under Code § 56-46.1 is satisfied by the proposed CVOW Project’s federal and state approvals regarding the siting, route, placement, installation, and operation of those facilities.

According to the Petition, Dominion executed an engineering, procurement, and construction (“EPC”) agreement with Ørsted (formerly Dong Energy) in January 2018. In June 2018, Dominion executed an EPC agreement with L.E. Myers for the onshore portion of the proposed CVOW Project.

Dominion’s current schedule for the proposed CVOW Project contemplates that the Project would commence operations in December 2020. According to Dominion, the Company must pursue the proposed CVOW Project now if it is to be ready in time to inform on the viability of pursuing a larger offshore wind project in the future. Dominion asserts that the Company could deploy a larger commercial offshore wind project as early as 2024, if economic. Dominion concludes that the timeline fits within the Company’s projected need for additional renewable resources between 2020 and 2030.

Dominion estimates the total cost of the proposed CVOW Project, including the CVOW Interconnection Facilities, to be approximately $300 million, excluding financing costs. According to Dominion, the EPC agreements with Ørsted and L.E. Myers fix approximately 87% of the total $300 million cost estimate.

Dominion plans to include the proposed CVOW Project costs in its base rate cost of service for recovery through its rates for generation and distribution services. Dominion states that, if necessary, the Company may designate the costs for customer credit reinvestment offset pursuant to Code § 56-585.1 A 8.

Proposed Route of the Virginia Interconnection Facilities Dominion’s preliminary proposed route for the onshore Virginia Interconnection Facilities originates at the proposed Beach Cabinet located within an existing parking lot at the end of Rifle Range Road on Camp Pendleton Beach. The cable route then extends in a westward direction along Rifle Range Road for a distance of approximately 700 feet. The cable route turns to the north along Regulus Avenue for a distance of approximately 1,025 feet to a gravel turnaround area, which will serve as an equipment laydown and staging area for the Horizontal Directional Drill (“HDD”) installation under Lake Christine. From the staging area, the HDD under Lake Christine is approximately 970 feet long and runs in a west/northwest direction under Lake Christine to the cleared area on the western side of the lake, which will act as the HDD staging area for the HDD punch-out. The temporary work space associated with each HDD staging area on either side of Lake Christine will be located within the 30-foot temporary workspace. The preliminary proposed route then runs southwest and continues under Lake Christine for a distance of approximately 1,800 feet to a grass area just north of Jefferson Avenue. The route then angles and runs in a southern direction for a distance of approximately 930 feet, terminating at the proposed Interconnection Station located just north of an entrance for Camp Pendleton at Gate No. 10 (Gate 10 Access Road, which is also called Jefferson Avenue) off of South Birdneck Road.

The Commission entered an Order for Notice and Hearing (“Order”) that, among other things, scheduled a public hearing to be held on October 9, 2018, at 10 a.m. in the Commission’s second floor courtroom located in the Tyler Building, 1300 East Main Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219, to receive the testimony of public witnesses. Any person desiring to offer testimony as a public witness at this hearing should appear in the Commission’s courtroom fifteen (15) minutes prior to the starting time of the hearing and identify himself or herself to the Commission’s Bailiff. The Commission scheduled a public evidentiary hearing to be convened on October 10, 2018, at 9:30 a.m., in the same location, to receive the testimony and evidence offered by the Company, any respondents, and the Staff.

Individuals with disabilities who require an accommodation to participate in the hearing should contact the Commission at least seven (7) days before the scheduled hearing at 1-800-552-7945.

On or before September 27, 2018, the Company, Staff and any respondent in this proceeding may submit a brief on legal issues raised by the Petition. On October 4, 2018, at 9:30 a.m., in the Commission’s second floor courtroom located in the Tyler Building, 1300 East Main Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219, the Commission will receive oral argument on the legal issues raised by the Petition from the Company, Staff, and any respondent who filed a legal brief in this proceeding.

PUBLIC NOTICE Project-based vouchers are a component of Richmond Redevelopment and Housing Authority’s (RRHA) Housing Choice Voucher Program. The voucher assistance is attached to a specific housing unit.

Effective August 20, 2018 Richmond Redevelopment and Housing Authority (“RRHA”) will begin accepting preliminary applications for its Project Based Voucher waiting lists below.

Waiting List Kingsridge The Goodwyn at Union

Bedroom Size 2 and 3 Bedroom 2 and 3 Bedroom

Property Address 401 Kingsridge Road Richmond, VA 23223 2230 Venable Street Richmond, VA 23223

To apply for these or any other available waiting lists please visit www.rrha.com. If you are already on the public housing or HCVP waiting list and need to make address, income and/or family composition changes, please visit www.rrha.com. Changes will not be processed by the phone or in person.

RRHA provides reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for assistance with any part of the application process, please call (804) 780-4361.

IMPORTANT NOTE: The Waitlist for the Housing Choice Voucher Program (HCVP), formerly known as Section 8, is currently CLOSED until further notice.

RRHA, through funds received by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development manages and maintains public housing for eligible low-income families, the elderly and persons with disabilities. It is the policy of the Richmond Redevelopment and Housing Authority to provide services without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, age, sex, family status, sexual orientation, gender identity or physical handicap or disability.

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

The public version of the Company’s Petition, pre-filed testimony, and exhibits are available for public inspection during regular business hours at all of the Company’s business offices in the Commonwealth of Virginia. A copy of the public version of the Company’s Petition also may be obtained, at no cost, by written request to counsel for Dominion, David J. DePippo, Esquire, Dominion Energy Services, Inc., Law Department, Riverside 2, 120 Tredegar Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219. If acceptable to the requesting party, the Company may provide the documents by electronic means.

On or before October 3, 2018, any interested person wishing to comment on the Company’s Petition shall file written comments with Joel H. Peck, Clerk, State Corporation Commission, c/o Document Control Center, P.O. Box 2118, Richmond, Virginia 23218-2118. Any interested person desiring to file comments electronically may do so on or before October 3, 2018, by following the instructions on the Commission’s website: http://www.scc.virginia.gov/case. Compact discs or any other form of electronic storage medium may not be filed with the comments.

All such comments shall refer to Case No. PUR-2018-00121.

Any person or entity may participate as a respondent in this proceeding by filing a notice of participation on or before September 7, 2018. If not filed electronically, an original and fifteen (15) copies of the notice of participation shall be filed with the Clerk of the Commission at the address set forth above. A copy of the notice of participation as a respondent also must be sent to counsel for the Company at counsel’s address set forth above. Pursuant to Rule 5 VAC 5-20-80 B, Participation as a respondent, of the Commission’s Rules of Practice and Procedure (“Rules of Practice”), any notice of participation shall set forth: (i) a precise statement of the interest of the respondent; (ii) a statement of the specific action sought to the extent then known; and (iii) the factual and legal basis for the action. All filings shall refer to Case No. PUR-2018-00121.

Interested persons should obtain a copy of the Commission’s Order for further details on participation as a respondent.

On or before September 14, 2018, each respondent may file with the Clerk of the Commission and serve on the Commission’s Staff, the Company, and all other respondents any testimony and exhibits by which the respondent expects to establish its case. If not filed electronically, an original and fifteen (15) copies of such testimony and exhibits shall be submitted to the Clerk of the Commission at the address set forth above. In all filings, respondents shall comply with the Commission’s Rules of Practice, including 5 VAC 5-20-140, Filing and service; 5 VAC 5-20150, Copies and format; and 5 VAC 5-20-240, Prepared testimony and exhibits. All filings shall refer to Case No. PUR 2018-00121.

All documents filed in the Office of the Clerk of the Commission in this docket may use both sides of the paper. In all other respects, all filings shall comply fully with the requirements of 5 VAC 5-20-150, Copies and format, of the Commission’s Rules of Practice.

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

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Sports Stories by Fred Jeter

Stroman’s and Settle’s path to pros entwined Few NFL players are more closely entwined than Greg Stroman and Tim Settle.

Improbable as it may seem, they’ve been together now on three consecutive levels of gridiron action.

Thus, their combined nickname: “3-for-3.”

Stroman and Settle first were teammates at Stonewall Jackson High School in Prince William County. From Northern Virginia, they attended Virginia Tech in Blacksburg together, where they became integral cogs in a strong Hokies defense.

Now, defying all odds, they’re in their first year with the same pro football franchise in the District of Columbia.

“It was exciting hearing the news. Now we’ve just got to play,” said Stroman. “I think we just kind of willed this into happening.”

Throughout the years, their jersey numbers also have been close together. At Tech, Stroman wore No. 4; Settle, No. 5. It doesn’t get much closer than that.

The longtime friends also are sharing a hotel room as the Washington NFL team holds preseason drills at the Bon Secours Training Center in Richmond.

They’re bringing their hard hat and lunch pail to practice each day. Both have a solid chance of making the team, but there are no assurances.

“He’ll let me know I’ve got to work, and I’ll let him know he’s got to work,” said Settle. “We don’t beat around the bush.”

Nose guard Settle was drafted in the fifth round; Stroman, a defensive back/kick returner, was drafted in round seven.

Right after Stroman was drafted, he tagged Settle on Twitter with “3-for-3.”

The duo are off to a promising start.

Greg Stroman Both earned recognition in Washington’s 26-17 exhibition loss at New England on Aug. 8. Stroman had a 20-yard punt return and was effective defending pass plays.

Settle had five tackles plus a forced fumble.

An All-ACC defensive back for Virginia Tech, Stroman hopes to make Washington’s eventual 53-man roster as a backup defender and full-time kick returner. At Tech, he returned 127 career punts for more than nine yards average, with four touchdowns. Defensively he made four interceptions and broke up 11 passes as a senior.

Jamison Crowder, also a front-line wide receiver, was Washington’s primary punt returner a year ago with a 6.3 yard average on 27 tries.

East beats West in MJBL All-Star Game

Tyshawn Cooke was among the offensive standouts in the Metropolitan Junior Baseball League’s All-Star Game last Saturday.

The former Armstrong High School star was 4-for-4 in the East’s 11-7 victory over the West in the game played at J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College’s Parham campus.

Mitch Jackson, a student at Danville Community College, had three hits for the West.

The game culminated a season of baseball activity in the U-19 age group.

James Haskins/Richmond Free Press The MJBL is affiliated with Major Mitch Jackson, right, narrowly misses being tagged out by Deyshaun Miles as League Baseball’s RBI, Reviving he comes into third base during the Metropolitan Junior Baseball League AllBaseball in Inner Cities.

Star Game last Saturday.

Stroman’s arrival as a defensive back coincides with the departure of another deep defender, former Virginia Tech Hokie DeAngelo Hall. Hall played with Washington from 2008 to 2017 before announcing his retirement.

The 6-foot-3, 338-pound Settle has seen his status rise as a nose guard candidate since the injury to No. 1 draft pick Da’Ron Tim Settle Payne out of Alabama.

Payne suffered an ankle injury at the training camp and did not dress for the New England game.

Stroman, a former high school quarterback, impressed last spring at the NFL Combine in Indianapolis with a time of 4.48 seconds in the 40-yard dash.

Settle came into his own last fall for Virginia Tech, earning second-team All-ACC honors with 36 tackles, including 12.5 for losses. He had four sacks.

High school teammates moving on to the same Division I college are rare. And now they’re both wearing burgundy and gold pro jerseys, too. Their unfolding “3-for-3” saga may be a story waiting for Hollywood.

Former VSU star Trenton Cannon will wear No.40 in Aug.16 NFL exhibition game Former Virginia State University football star Trenton Cannon, nicknamed “Boom,” will wear the No. 40 jersey for the New York Jets in the Thursday, Aug. 16, exhibition game against Washington at FedEx Field.

Cannon of Hampton was the CIAA Offensive Player of the Year in 2017.

He was the Jets’ sixth round draft pick.

Now he is third on the depth chart at tailback behind returnee Bilal Powell and Isaiah Crowell, who last year played Trenton Cannon at Cleveland.

In the Jets’ 17-0 win over the Atlanta Falcons in the seasonopening exhibition, Cannon carried the ball 11 times for 40 yards, with an 11-yard gain. He also had three receptions for 5 yards.

Former Richmonder helps propel D.C. Little League team to spotlight A native Richmonder was front and center in one of the feel-good stories of the summer.

Keith Barnes, a former baseball player at John Marshall High School and Virginia State University, is president and founder of Mamie “Peanut” Johnson Little League in Washington.

As a young boy, Barnes began playing baseball with the Battery Park Vikings in North Richmond, and even now keeps a Vikings team photo on his phone.

Barnes, 46, founded Johnson Little League in 2014 in the southeast area of the nation’s capital, east of the Anacostia River, in Ward 7.

The Johnson Little League’s Majors All-Stars — ages 11 and 12 — made headlines last month in becoming the first predominantly African-American team to ever win the eight-league D.C. Metro.

Traditionally, the annual event is won by teams in Washington’s more affluent neighborhoods.

“Football and basketball are kings in D.C.,” Barnes told ESPN.com. “We’ve

been trying to grow baseball in the African-American community. We just want to give the kids other options.”

The Johnson Little League, with 11 African-American children on a 12-player roster, is no overnight success. The league finished runner-up to Northwest Washington Little League a year ago.

This season, Johnson defeated Capitol Hill Little League 14-7 in the final at the Washington Nationals Youth Center.

That earned Johnson the right to make additional history in the Mid-Atlantic Regional in Bristol, Conn. That’s one step from reaching Little League World Series in Williamsport, Pa. Johnson Little League, the first mostly African-American team to reach the regional, joined champions from New York, Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey and Pennsylvania in Connecticut for double-elimination play.

But it didn’t go well in New England.

Johnson Little League was eliminated after losing to New York, 10-2, and Maryland, 18-7.

While the ending wasn’t ideal, the team’s success drew tremendous support.

Baltimore Orioles’ outfielder Adam Jones wrote a check for $8,500 to help cover the team’s travel expenses for the 300-mile bus trip from D.C. to Bristol.

Also, the Major League Nationals presented snazzy jerseys to the Johnson Little League players.

“It’s a blessing for the kids and their families,” Barnes said. “It just means the world to these kids — a once in a lifetime opportunity.’

There were many smaller contributors, Barnes said, that provided the team with a combined $15,000.

Johnson Little League has grown from about 100 boys and girls in 2014 to more than 300 in various age groups. Players only pay a $20 registration fee.

The league is named after the late Mamie Johnson, one of three women to play baseball in the Negro Leagues.

Ms. Johnson pitched for the Indianapolis Clowns from 1953 to 1955.

Colorful World Series The Little League World Series brings diversity to the diamond.

Since the featured event for 11- to 12-year-olds began in 1947 in Williamsport, Pa., youngsters of color have made a bold statement with their bats and gloves.

This year ’s event will be Thursday, Aug. 16, through Sunday, Aug. 26, with daily ESPN television coverage.

While baseball is a sport populated largely in the United States by white players, consider these Little League World Series achievements by players of color.

Taiwan has the most Little League championship titles, 17 starting in 1969, followed by Japan with 11 (starting in 1967) and South Korea with three, the most recent in 2014.

Monterrey, Mexico, won in

1957 and 1958; Guadalupe, Mexico, in 1997.

Venezuela prevailed in 1994 and 2004; Curacao took top honors in 2004.

In 2001, a team from Bronx, N.Y., reached the Little League finals, only to be disqualified because of concerns over the age of star pitcher Danny Almonte.

In 2012, Uganda became first team from the continent of Africa to punch its ticket to Williamsport.

In 2014, the Jackie Robinson West Little League lost in the finals to South Korea, but the Southside Chicago squad was later stripped of its honors because of rules violations.

Also in 2014, Mo’ne Davis, playing on a team from Philadelphia, became the first girl to hurl a no-hitter in the Little League World Series.

Shaq’s 6-foot-10 son headed to UCLA Shareef O’Neal

A big man named O’Neal is again making basketball headlines in Southern California.

Shareef O’Neal, the 6-foot-10 son of Shaquille O’Neal, has signed to play for UCLA. He is enrolling at the Westwood campus this summer.

Shaquille O’Neal was the Los Angeles

Lakers’ All-Star center from 1996 to 2004, helping the franchise to NBA titles in 2000 and 2002.

Shareef O’Neal is one of Shaquille O’Neal’s four children with former wife Shaunte Nelson.

This past season, Shareef averaged 27 points per game in pacing Crossroads School

in Santa Monica, Calif., to a 25-9 record.

He was rated by ESPN as California’s top prospect among the Class of 2018.

Shareef originally committed to the University of Arizona but opted for UCLA, his hometown school, where he will play under Coach Steve Alford.

Shareef joins a strong incoming fresh-

man class at UCLA that includes 7-foot-1 Moses Brown from Archbishop Molloy High School in New York City.

Crossroads School has become popular among celebrity athletes. Bronny James, eldest son of NBA star LeBron James, has enrolled at Crossroads School for the fall semester as an eighth-grader.

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Personality: Marjie Patterson Spotlight on board chair of ReEstablish Richmond Conflicts around the world have forced thousands of families to flee their homelands and seek refuge in other nations.

ReEstablish Richmond helps refugees and their families rebuild their lives in Metro Richmond and become selfsufficient.

“We are growing a lot and finding more and more ways to help our refugee clients,” says Marjie Patterson, chair of ReEstablish Richmond’s Board of Directors.

“In the current environment, now feels like a really important time to be supporting refugees.”

The small, nonprofit agency was started in 2010 and works in collaboration with resettlement agencies, government agencies, faith communities and volunteers to help connect refugees to life-building resources vital to making their transition to a new home successful.

Acclimating to Richmond’s culture and community is not easy, Ms. Patterson says, particularly because, after being displaced, many refugees know returning home is not an option for a variety of reasons, among them religious persecution, political and social unrest and genocide. Many fear for their lives, she says.

“Our staff and many volunteers help refugees do some of the basics — deal with transportation, education and employment and community engagement — in order to live in Richmond.”

ReEstablish Richmond has worked with an average of 123 families each year for the past three years, providing services to adults as well as some indirect services to children, Ms. Patterson explains. The organization pairs refugees with volunteers who act as community mentors to help families “learn how to navigate life in America.”

“We also connect refugees with ESL (English as a Second Language) classes and help clients build their résumés and find jobs. We have an outreach coordinator who meets with refugee clients referred by other agencies and helps find solutions to any problem they may be facing,” Ms. Patterson says.

Many refugee families the organization helps live in Henrico County, where accessing and navigating the public transit system can be a major challenge, she says.

“We conduct bus orientations to help our clients learn how to navigate using GRTC,” Ms. Patterson says. “We also help clients study for their learner’s permit and we pay for clients to take behind-thewheel training before getting their driver’s licenses.”

On a few occasions, she continues, “we have received donated cars (for) refugee families that need one.”

The organization also helps families register their children for school.

“It can be difficult because it is a different process for people from different countries speaking different languages,” she says.

“Think about this: How would you do if you were put in a totally foreign place, a completely different culture, where you didn’t know anybody or the language, or how to get food or a job? How would you want someone to help you?”

Although ReEstablish Richmond has seen the number of refugees to Metro Richmond drop in the past year — from 626 in 2017 to 196 so far this year — largely because of a change in Trump administration policy, the need for help remains.

ReEstablish Richmond advocates for policies that “support the growth of — rather than the dismantling of — the refugee resettlement process,” officials with the organization say.

“We believe that refugees bring creative energy, determination, a wealth of experience

and a depth of perspective to our communities,” Ms. Patterson notes.

“Personally, I’m a supporter of a more open immigration policy. Of course, everyone should go through vigorous screenings, as they already do.

But I think we should accept a significant number of refugees from all countries where people are displaced and unable to stay. And we should support them in their efforts to build new lives here.”

Ms. Patterson got involved in refugee resettlement after serving the summer after college as a volunteer at a refugee shelter in Ontario, Canada.

“It was really eye opening,” Ms. Patterson says.

She returned to Richmond after graduate school and studying about many of the conflicts that lead to displacement of people. She also received training in nonprofit and public sector management, and sought to get involved with a nonprofit board.

“I was very excited to find ReEstablish Richmond,” she says, because “it was something I felt passionate about.”

She has been a member of the board since the fall of 2014. Her term as chair ends next May. The organization is planning a Welcome Fest in September, and continues seeking volunteers to help “refugees feel welcome and build lives in Richmond.”

Meet a welcoming advocate for refugee families and this week’s Personality, Marjie Patterson: No. 1 volunteer position: Chair, board of directors of ReEstablish Richmond.

Date and place of birth: Sept.

12 in Lewisburg, W.Va. Current residence: Henrico County.

Alma maters: Bachelor’s in political science, Virginia Commonwealth University; master’s in public policy, Duke University.

Family: Husband, David; no kids (yet).

When and why ReEstablish Richmond was founded: In 2010, founder Patrick Braford recognized that the current programs weren’t able to meet all the long-term needs of refugees who had resettled in Richmond.

Its mission: Helping refugees establish roots, build community and become self-sufficient.

What makes this organization

different: Our staff members have really earned the trust of the refugee community, and since we’re small, we have been able to be nimble and shift our focus over the years to meet their most pressing needs.

Number of staff: Two full-time staff members, two Americorps VISTA volunteers and a couple of interns.

Impact of new government policies on immigration: The current administration has reduced the overall number of refugee admissions into the United States. There have also been fewer Muslim refugees resettling in the United States during the Trump administration as compared to the Obama administration.

Number of people resettling in Richmond: In 2017, Richmond resettled 626 refugees.

In 2018, with the year-end being September, the total so far is 196.

How new refugees are viewed in the Richmond area: I think most have had generally positive experiences, although I have heard sentiments like needing to take care of Americans first.

How they should be viewed: I think they are people just like us, who have different perspectives and experiences that we could learn from, who can add a lot of value to America, and who have had to endure something I hope none of my loved ones ever have to endure.

Impact of refugees on the local job market: Refugees don’t come to Richmond in very large numbers, so we think their impact on the overall job market is small. Some also start businesses and create jobs once they’ve been able to get established in the United States.

What refugees bring to Richmond area: New cultures and foods, and a desire to learn about us and blend their past culture and American culture into a new future.

How I start the day: Mostly, I think about the things I want to get done that day and try to make a plan that’s realistic. And then I get up and start the day.

A perfect day for me: It would be a packed day, filled with time with family and friends, doing something productive, eating good food and spending time outside.

Something I love to do that most people would never imagine: I’m super into the E! reality shows “Total Divas” and “Total Bellas” about female wrestlers.

Kindergarten taught me: How to make friends. I moved in kindergarten and then switched classes in my new school, so I had to figure out how to make friends three times that year.

Best late-night snack: Pizza.

It’s the best snack any time of the day.

How I unwind: Read a book on my screened-in porch.

A quote that I am inspired by: “To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived, this is to have succeeded.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson.

The person who influenced me the most: My mom.

The book that influenced me the most: “The River of Doubt” by Candice Millard, a fascinating book about Teddy Roosevelt’s expedition to chart an unmapped river in the Amazon.

Book I last read: “The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity and My Fight Against the Islamic State” by Nadia Murad. She is Yazidi and was enslaved when ISIS came to her village in Iraq.

My next goal: I’m working on improving my French and learning to read Hebrew.

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Hot jazz at Maymont The temperatures were hot, but so was the music at the 9th Annual Richmond Jazz Festival at Maymont last weekend. Thousands of people rocked to the sounds of jazz, rhythm and blues and funk Saturday and early Sunday until a summer storm blew through around 5 p.m., causing the evening performances to be canceled. People enjoyed music coming from three stages at the

venue in Richmond’s West End. On Saturday, Gladys Knight, above left, shows the crowd that she still has it, while 31-year-old English singer and actress Joss Stone and Dee Dee Bridgewater & the Memphis Soulphony hit the high notes.

Left, jazz trumpeter Keyon Harold, 37, of Ferguson, Mo., is known for his work with A-listers Beyoncé, Jay-Z, Maxwell and Mary J. Blige.

Below, fans jump to their feet and groove Saturday night when George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic perform and The O’Jays close out Saturday night’s schedule with their crowd-pleasing old school sounds.

Bottom left, vocalist Jassmeia Horn, 27, of Dallas, blows the crowd away Sunday.

She is the 2015 Thelonious Monk Competition winner.

Hometown favorite Plunky Branch of Plunky and Oneness energizes the crowd Sunday despite the dark storm clouds rolling in.

Down Home Family Reunion Saturday at Abner Clay Park Motown tunes and African and Caribbean rhythms will highlight the 28th Annual Down Home Family Reunion this weekend.

The free celebration of African-American folk life and culture will take place 4 to 11 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 18, at Abner Clay Park, Brook Road and Leigh Street in Jackson Ward.

“This event showcases the connections with the Motherland that continue to influence Richmond and this country through music, art, food and a host of other ways,” said Janine Bell, executive director of the Elegba Folklore Society, which created and organizes the annual festival.

Music and dance will be the centerpiece of the program.

Featured performers include the Classic Motown Review and Afrobeat performer Jah Baba, a Benin-born musician who couples jazz and other

American styles with traditional African beats.

Participants also are to be treated to the Caribbean reggae of Adwela and the Uprising, the rhythm and blues of High Definition and the blues of Ladye E & the Blues Sensations.

The Elegba Folklore Society dancers also will perform.

Ms. Bell said the event also would focus on the connection with the African nation of Benin, with which Richmond has long had ties as a result of the

trade of enslaved people.

Along with Jah Baba, a representative of the Benin Embassy in Washington is expected to attend, Ms. Bell said. A Vodun priest of Benin will offer a blessing and libation as part of the event. The priest also will be there to talk with festival participants seeking to reconnect with African spirituality about Vodun traditions and practices, Ms. Bell said.

The festival also will feature performances by various youth

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Rev. Nathaniel Morris, gospel singer, playwright, minister, dies at 67

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

The Rev. Nathaniel “Nat” Morris went from singing in a Richmond church as a child to the Broadway stage as an adult.

An ordained minister, playwright, actor and singer, Rev. Morris was 18 when he made his debut in 1968 as a cast member in the rock musical “Hair” when it went to Broadway.

He moved on to join the original cast of “Jesus Christ Superstar” and later played Judas in the touring version of the show that traveled to Richmond and a host of other cities.

Rev. Morris also was a member of the original cast of “Don’t Bother Me, I Can’t Cope,” a musical focused on the AfricanAmerican experience, when it was staged in Washington in 1971 before heading to Broadway.

Returning to New York, Rev. Morris later starred in “Dude” and appeared in other Broadway productions, such as “Your Arms Too Short to Box with God,” “Dreamgirls” and “The Wiz,” in which he also served as vocal director.

But his heart was in performing gospel music. He was best known for singing the solo in “God Is” in a 1979 gospel album that featured the Rev. James Cleveland and the Southern California Community Choir and earned a 1980 Grammy nomination.

Rev. Morris’ rich tenor voice and religious commitment are being remembered following his death on Thursday, Aug. 2, 2018, in Richmond. The Highland Park resident was 67.

Rev. Morris’ life was celebrated Friday, Aug. 10, at St. Paul’s Baptist Church in Henrico County.

Born in Richmond, Rev. Morris was baptized at 9 at the Gospel

Baptist Church and began singing in the Sunday school and youth choirs of the church of which he was a lifetime member.

A few years later, he formed “Nathaniel Morris and The Gospel Five,” a singing group that toured churches in Virginia and nearby states. The group included his aunt, Corliss Smith Pompey, and four friends, Vivian Clarke, Yvonne Harris, Jerome Jackson and pianist and singer Charles Turner.

“He grew up singing, and even Rev. Morris when he was very young, he had no problem going into the aisles to sing, narrate the music and preach a little,” Ms. Pompey said.

The group traveled to Ohio to cut its first record when he was 17.

“He was a genuine person, who loved to joke. But when it came to the music and performing, he was focused and all business,” Ms. Pompey said. “He wanted to get it right, and if you couldn’t, he wouldn’t use you.”

Then he was off to New York.

Along with his Broadway roles, Rev. Morris also appeared in off-Broadway productions, including “The More You Get, The More You Want,” “The Child of the Sun” and “Louis.” He also was part of a singing group that performed at the White House

for President Jimmy Carter and First Lady Rosalind Carter.

He moved to California to sing with Rev. Cleveland and with the Los Angeles Contours. While in Los Angeles, he also wrote, produced, directed and performed “Run and Tell It,” a gospel production that earned the 1993 Humanitarian Award from Agape Love Management.

He was licensed and ordained as a minister through Gospel Baptist Church and returned to Richmond to complete his ministerial studies at the Richmond Virginia Seminary in Church Hill. He then served five years as pastor of Second Antioch Baptist Church of Powhatan.

Rev. Morris devoted himself to recording projects, including his most recent album, “Lift Him Up,” produced in 2016 on Shout Records.

He also found acting opportunities. He went to New York to become a choral extra in the filming of the 2013 Christmas release “Black Nativity” starring Forest Whitaker and Angela Bassett.

In May, Rev. Morris appeared at Cedar Street Baptist Church of God in Church Hill to promote what would be his final gospel single, “It’s Gonna Rain,” released by Karamel Entertainment.

In one of his final performances, he also appeared in May at a reunion with the “The Gospel Five” at Shiloh Baptist Church, Ms. Pompey said. “It was a wonderful time for all of us to sing together again.”

Survivors include his mother, Frances Morris; his brothers, Walter Morris Jr. and Keith Morris; and his sister, Patrice Morris.

Dr. Katie G. Cannon, renowned scholar who elevated role of black women in theology, dies at 68 Dr. Katie Geneva Cannon made history in 1974 as the first African-American woman to be ordained a Presbyterian minister in the United States.

Dr. Cannon would use that breakthrough to become a driving force in creating the womanist theology that promotes the inclusion of women of color in shaping the understanding of faith. That womanist theology also challenges the practices and scriptural interpretations that enable the traditional white patriarchal view of religion, as well as the male-centered black liberation theology.

Based at Union Presbyterian Seminary in Richmond for 17 years, Dr. Cannon used her position a teacher, scholar, author and globetrotting speaker to advocate for this broader and more diverse view of religious and ethical thought.

In books like “Black Womanist Ethics” and “Katie’s Canon: Womanism and the Soul of the Black Community,” Dr. Cannon argued that the view of God’s creation is more expansive and more diverse when it is informed by the moral wisdom in the everyday lives of black women.

Her insistence on this view, admirers said, led others, including gays, lesbians and transgender individuals of faith, to seek their own inclusion in scholarship and ministry.

Dr. Cannon’s influence on the seminary, the Presbyterian Church, former students who went on to become church pastors and the wider religious community is being recognized following her death on Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2018. She was 68.

“Dr. Cannon was greatly admired and loved as a scholar, teacher and friend,” Union Presbyterian Seminary President Brian K. Blount stated in announcing her death.

He noted that Dr. Cannon publicly disclosed in June her diagnosis of leukemia that left her dependent on blood transfusions. Students, faculty and staff organized a blood drive to show their support for her treatment.

While a funeral for Dr. Cannon was held Tuesday, Aug. 14, in her native North Carolina, the Richmond seminary will

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Dr. Cannon was the founder of the seminary’s Center for Womanist Leadership, and her role developing a fresh, black-oriented, femalecentered theology received special emphasis in April.

On the 44th anniversary of her historic ordination and despite battling leukemia, she co-organized the center’s inaugural conference Dr. Cannon in Richmond that drew 250 religious scholars from across the country. It featured 14 prominent African-American women speakers, including Alice Walker, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, activist and author of “The Color Purple.”

Born in Kannapolis, N.C., Dr. Cannon grew up in a religious family. Her parents were elders in the Presbyterian church the family attended, but she also felt the sting of racial bigotry that showed the disconnect between actual conditions she faced and the Christian message she was being taught.

“I hated segregation,” she said in a podcast at the seminary in March in seeking to explain why the womanist conference in April was so important.

“I couldn’t go to the library, couldn’t go to the swimming pool, couldn’t go to the YWCA. Everything was forbidden, outlawed, and you didn’t want to risk doing it knowing somebody might get killed.”

Buoyed by the Civil Rights Movement that began ushering in change, Dr. Cannon began teaching religion at the college level after earning her bachelor’s degree in 1971 from BarberScotia College in Concord, N.C., and her master’s of divinity from the Johnson C. Smith Theological Seminary in Atlanta in 1974.

Returning to North Carolina, she was ordained as a minister by the Catawba Presbytery, becoming the 155th female and the first African-American woman ordained in what is now the Presbyterian Church USA. Initially a supply pastor, she went to New York to become an instructor at the New York Theological Seminary, where she began her development as a scholar. After earning her doctoral degree at Union Theological Seminary in New York in 1983, she taught at the Harvard Divinity and Episcopal Divinity schools in Cambridge, Mass., and spent nine years as a religion studies professor at Temple University in Philadelphia before joining the faculty of Union Presbyterian Seminary in 2001.

During the mid-1980s, she joined with two other scholars, Jacquelyn Grant and Delores Williams, in seeking to reform black liberation theology and traditional religion with the perspective of African-American women. Their goal: To encourage women to reclaim their identity and throw off the mental shackles imposed by patriarchal norms.

Dr. Cannon frequently was invited to speak at religious events around the globe and also spent time as a visiting professor at Davidson College and Williams College.

She was a past president of the Society for the Study of Black Religion and produced an array of published papers and books in support of womanist theology.

Dr. Cannon received numerous honors for her work as an educator, including Spelman College’s Distinguished Professor Award, Virginia Union University’s School of Theology Beautiful Are The Feet Award and the American Academy of Religion’s Excellence in Teaching Award.

“Teaching is my ministry. I love teaching to empower, to equip, to set people free” she said in a video that was played in June when the Presbyterian Church USA awarded her its Excellence in Theological Education Award during a meeting of the church’s General Assembly in St. Louis.

Survivors include her mother, Corine L. Cannon; sisters Sara C. Fleming, Doris C. Love and Sylvia C. Moon; and brothers John Cannon and Jerry Cannon.

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UR religion professor honored for 54 years

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

4, will officially and “Meaningful complete his 52nd Dialog for Jews year as a UR faculty and Christians.” Dr. member on Sept.

Eakin also contin12, according to the ues to serve as an university. adviser to graduIn recognition of ate students in the his tenure, Who’s master’s in liberal Who in America arts program. presented Dr. Eakin The longest servwith its Albert Neling faculty member Dr. Eakin son Marquis Lifein UR history, Dr. Eakin is one of just a handful of time Achievement Award, college professors in the nation which is named for the founder to have taught for more than a of the publishing company that half-century. An internet search produces the book of short found only three, and at least biographies about prominent one was listed because he was people in the United States.

The university proudly retiring after 50 years.

Dr. Eakin, who will celebrate announced the award to Dr. his 82nd birthday on Sept. Eakin.

There is one word in the English language that Frank Edwin Eakin Jr. never utters: “Retirement.”

Dr. Eakin has spent 54 years teaching religious studies courses, including 52 years at the University of Richmond, and he’s still going strong.

Now 81, he is looking forward to working with a new group of students when UR’s fall semester begins Monday, Aug. 27.

One of the 13 faculty members in the Department of Religious Studies, he is scheduled to teach two undergraduate classes, “The Bible as Literature”

“Frank Eakin is an accomplished and dedicated faculty member who is committed to seeing his students succeed,” said Dr. Patrice Rankine, dean of the UR School of Arts & Sciences, which includes Religious Studies. “We are not surprised that Who’s Who awarded Frank this welldeserved honor.”

The Lifetime Achievement Award honors the Roanoke native as a leader in the fields of religious studies and higher education. Honorees must have been in their field for at least 20 years and are selected based on noteworthy accomplishments, visibility and prominence, the New Jersey-based publishing

This medieval Greek manuscript of the four Gospels has been missing from the University of Athens since 1991.

company, Marquis Who’s Who, stated in its notification to UR and Dr. Eakin.

Dr. Eakin, who earned his bachelor’s degree from UR in 1958, joined the UR faculty in 1966 after teaching one year at Duke University and one year at Wake Forest University. He also added a bachelor’s of divinity degree from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and earned a doctorate at Duke.

Since 1975, he has held the Weinstein-Rosenthal Chair of Jewish and Christian Studies, which has enabled him to deal “in a multifaceted way with the pivotal religious and cultural issue of anti-Judaism,” he stated in a university news release.

Among other writings, Dr. Eakin is the author of two books, “What Price Prejudice? Christian Antisemitism in America” and “The First Tablet of the Commandments: A Jewish and Christian Problem.”

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One year after the Green family — owners of the craft store chain Hobby Lobby and principal sponsors of the Museum of the Bible — agreed to pay a $3 million fine for illegally importing artifacts from Iraq, the museum is returning a medieval New Testament manuscript to the University of Athens after learning the document had been stolen from the Greek institution.

The return follows an investigation the museum is conducting on the provenance, or origins, of more than 3,000 items in its collection.

Late last week, the museum that opened in Washington in November announced it would return the medieval Greek manuscript of the four Gospel accounts of Jesus’ life to the University of Athens.

It marked “the first return of an artifact because of a provenance issue,” spokeswoman Michelle Farmer of DeMoss told Religion News Service.

The item, known as “Manuscript 18” and dating to the 1100s, had gone missing from the university’s library in 1991. It turned up seven years later at a Sotheby’s auction in London, where it was purchased by an unknown owner.

It wasn’t until 2010 that Hobby Lobby President Steve Green, owner of one of the world’s largest private collections of biblical texts and artifacts, bought the manuscript. The Green family, major funders of MOTB, donated it to the museum in 2014.

Jeff Kloha, chief curatorial officer, told RNS that the decision to return the item was easy. “We’re a Museum of the Bible, so it’s ‘do unto others as you would have others do unto you,’ ” he said, citing Matthew 7:12.

Dr. Kloha said the museum was following standards set forth by the American Alliance of Museums and the Association of Art Museum Directors. “We want to act in an ethical way, a nice way to help a sister institution,” he said. “This is an opportunity for us to act responsibly and demonstrate we’re a museum” that adheres to standards.

Dr. Kloha noted that MOTB is seeking accreditation from the American Association of Museums, and that doing things according to standards is part of that process. Accreditation reflects a museum’s professionalism, he said, “and also helps with lending partners” when approaching other institutions for the loan of items.

Manuscript 18 is currently on display through an agreement with the University of Athens and will be formally returned on Oct. 1. Dr. Kloha said the manuscript has been “digitized … and put online” for public viewing.

Dr. Kloha, who holds a doctorate from the University of Leeds in England, noted the many “points of locating” the manuscript from the early 1900s to the present.

“This is such a clear-cut case when we talked with the University (of Athens),” he said. “(This was) not a random manuscript, but it had intimate connections with the uni-

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versity and belonged in that collection.”

One such connection was Spyridon Lambros, a 19th and early 20th century Greek historian who taught at the university for 23 years and donated the manuscript to the university. Mr. Lambros also briefly served as Greek prime minister from September 1916 to April 1917.

Following the Manuscript 18 donation, the museum listed the item on a database of New Testament manuscripts at the Institute for New Testament Textual Research at the University of Münster in Germany.

That listing drew the attention of Theodora Antonopoulou, a professor of Byzantine literature at the University of Athens. Her research showed that the manuscript had been appropriated from the school without its permission. On determining that the item belonged to the university, MOTB officials arranged to return it.

Attorney Thomas R. Kline, a lecturer in museum studies at George Washington University as well as a consultant to the MOTB, said the return “reflects the (museum) board’s commitment to an (ethical) approach at the highest level.”

Such standards were highlighted after the 2017 agreement by the Green family to return thousands of artifacts that U.S. officials said were illegally imported, as well as pay the $3 million fine.

Some academics argued the incident would tarnish the MOTB’s reputation but others conceded the difficulties of provenance inherent in assembling collections of ancient artifacts.

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Legal Notices City of Richmond, Virginia CITY COUNCIL PUBLIC NOTICE Notice is hereby given that the Council of the City of Richmond has scheduled a public hearing, open to all interested citizens, on Monday, September 10, 2018 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. 2018-203 To amend City Code § 8-441, concerning the designation of days and hours when the 17th Street Farmer ’s Market will be open and closed for vendors, for the purpose of providing for the designation of hours when the 17th Street Farmer’s Market is open and closed to the public. (COMMITTEE: Land Use, Housing and Transportation, Tuesday, August 21, 2018, 1:00 p.m., Council Chamber) Ordinance No. 2018-204 To authorize the Chief Administrative Officer, for and on behalf of the City of Richmond, to execute a Lease Agreement between the City of Richmond as lessor and Capital Area Health Network, doing business as the Vernon J. Harris East End Community Health Center, as lessee for the purpose of providing health center office space for the Vernon J. Harris East End Community Health Center at 719 North 25th Street. (COMMITTEE: Land Use, Housing and Transportation, Tuesday, August 21, 2018, 1:00 p.m., Council Chamber) Ordinance No. 2018-205 To adopt an amendment to the Master Plan for the City of Richmond, adopted by the City Planning Commission on Nov. 6, 2000, and by the City Council by Ord. No. 2000371-2001-11, adopted Jan. 8, 2001, as previously amended, to incorporate the Public Art Master Plan, as part of the Master Plan. The intent of the Public Art Master Plan, known as “Revealing Richmond,” is to guide the City’s and community’s future investments into public art; to create expanded opportunities for investment into place making and public realm improvements; to put into place, and fund, tools to help inventory, assess, and maintained the City’s growing collection, and to be able to do that on a regular basis. (COMMITTEE: Land Use, Housing and Transportation, Tuesday, August 21, 2018, 1:00 p.m., Council Chamber) Ordinance No. 2018-207 To designate the 100 block of Larne Avenue in honor of Yvonne Spain. (COMMITTEE: Land Use, Housing and Transportation, Tuesday, August 21, 2018, 1:00 p.m., Council Chamber) Interested citizens who wish to speak will be given an opportunity to do so.

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

Candice D. Reid City Clerk City of Richmond, Virginia CITY COUNCIL PUBLIC NOTICE Notice is hereby given that the City of Richmond Planning Commission has scheduled a public hearing, open to all interested citizens, on Tuesday, September 4, 2018 at 1:30 p.m. in the Fifth Floor Conference Room of City Hall and the Council of the City of Richmond has scheduled a public hearing on Monday, September 10, 2018 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. 2018-208 To close to vehicular travel North 17th Street between East Franklin Street and East Main Street, consisting of approximately 23,761± square feet, for the purpose of creating an urban plaza centered around the 17th Street Farmer’s Market, upon certain terms and conditions.

Ordinance No. 2018-209 To amend City Code §§ 30-504, 30-506—30507.1, 30-509—30-523, and 30-1220; to amend ch. 30, art. V, div. 1 by adding therein new §§ 30-504.01 and 30-504.02; and to amend the fees set forth in Appendix A of the City Code for sections 30-1050.6(a) and 30-1050.6(b), for the Continued on next column

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purpose of modifying the City’s zoning ordinance to ensure the proper administration and implementation of the City’s sign regulations.

To amend and reordain Chapter 30, Article V of the City Code concerning sign regulations in the city of Richmond which will include establishing awning signs and canopy signs as distinct sign types and incorporating design elements related thereto, adjusting maximum sign area in various zoning districts and to Amend and Reordain the fees set forth in Appendix A for City Code §30-1050.6(a) and §30-1050.6(b), for the purpose of amending fees for filing applications for special use permits and amended special use permits related to signage, and other related sections of the Zoning Ordinance to ensure the proper administration and implementation of the Sign Regulations.

Ordinance No. 2018-210 To conditionally rezone the properties known as 3 Manchester Road, 3A Manchester Road, and 2 Hull Street from the RF-1 Riverfront District to the B-4 Central Business District (Conditional), upon certain proffered conditions. The properties are located in the RF-1 Riverfront District. These properties were included in the 2009 Downtown Plan, which recommends that they be developed consistent with the Urban Center Character Area. The Urban Center Area is characterized by higher density, mixed-use development, typically arranged on a fine-grained street network, with wide sidewalks, regular tree planting, and minimal setbacks.

Ordinance No. 2018-211 To conditionally rezone the properties known as 700 North 3rd Street; 200, 202, 203, 204, 205, 206, 207, 208, 209, 210, 211, 212, 213, 214, 215, 216, 217, and 218 Maggie L. Walker Place; and 701, 703, 705, 707, 709, 723, and 745 North 2nd Street from the R-53 Multifamily Residential District to the B-7 MixedUse Business District (Conditional), upon certain proffered conditions. The properties are located in the R-53 Multifamily Residential District.

The City of Richmond’s Pulse Corridor Plan designates the property for Neighborhood MixedUse land use, within the Convention Center Station Area. Neighborhood Mixed-Use areas are recommended to be cohesive districts that provide a mix of uses, but with a larger amount of residential uses than other mixed-use districts. They are an urban, walkable environment with limited neighborhood-oriented uses incorporated along key commercial corridors and at corner sites.

Ordinance No. 2018-212 To amend and reordain Ord. No. 93-271-235, adopted Oct. 11, 1993, which authorized the use of the property known as 1133 West Franklin Street for the purpose of conversion and use of the existing building as offices, Sunday school rooms, and meeting rooms accessory to the existing church at 1205 West Franklin Street, and as a single dwelling unit, together with accessory parking, to authorize additional signage, upon certain terms and conditions.

The property is zoned in the R-6 Single-Family Attached Residential District. The City’s Master Plan recommends SingleFamily Medium Density land use for the subject property. Primary uses are single-family and two-family dwellings, both detached and attached, at densities of 8 to 20 units per acre. Includes residential support uses such as schools, places of worship, neighborhood parks and recreation facilities, and limited public and semi-public uses.

Ordinance No. 2018-213 To authorize the special use of the properties known as 2600 Idlewood Avenue and 309 South Robinson Street for the purpose of a social service delivery use and accessory parking, upon certain terms and conditions. The property is zoned in the R-63 MultiFamily Urban Residential District. The City of Richmond’s current Near West Planning District Land Use Plan designates a future land use category for the subject property as SF-MD (Single Family – Medium Density). Primary uses are single-family and two-family dwellings, both detached and attached, at densities of 8 to 20 units per acre. Includes residential support uses such as schools, places of worship, neighborhood parks and recreation facilities, and limited public and semi-public uses.

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Ordinance No. 2018-214 To authorize the special use of the property known as 3400 Stony Point Road for the purpose of limited special events, upon certain terms and conditions. The City of Richmond’s Master Plan recommends institutional land use for the subject property. Primary uses for this category include institutional uses, such as places of worship, private schools, universities, museums, hospitals, and other care facilities.

The property is currently zoned R-2 Single-Family Residential.

Ordinance No. 2018-215 To authorize the special use of the property known as 4410 Kensington Avenue for the purpose of permitting an accessory dwelling unit within an existing detached garage, upon certain terms and conditions. The property is located in the R-5 Singlefamily zoning district.

The City of Richmond’s Master Plan designates a future land use category for the subject property as Single-Family Low Density. Primary uses for this category include single-family detached dwellings at densities up to seven units per acre.

The proposed density of the parcel would be approximately 12 units per acre.

Ordinance No. 2018-216 To authorize the special use of the property known as 200 East Cary Street for the purpose of a single-family dwelling, upon certain terms and conditions. The property is located within the B-3 General Business District.

The Pulse Corridor Plan designates the subject property as Downtown Mixed-Use which features high-density development with office buildings, apartments, and a mix of complementary uses, including regional destinations. Higherdensity pedestrianand transit-oriented development encouraged on vacant or underutilized sites; new development should be urban in form and may be of larger scale than existing context.

Ordinance No. 2018-217 To authorize the special use of the property known as 5263 Warwick Road for the purpose of a wireless telecommunications monopole and associated equipment, upon certain terms and conditions. The subject property is located in the R-4 Single-Family Residential zoning district.

The City of Richmond’s Master Plan recommends Single-Family Low Density land use for the subject property. This category includes schools, places of worship, neighborhood parks and recreation facilities, and limited public and semi-public uses (p. 133).

Interested citizens who wish to speak will be given an opportunity to do so. Copies of the full text of all ordinances are available by visiting the City Clerk’s page on the City’s Website at www.

Richmondgov.com; the Main City Library located at 101 East Franklin Street; and in the Office of the City Clerk, City Hall, 900 East Broad Street, Suite 200, Richmond, VA 23219, from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday.

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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 19th day of September, 2018 at 9:00 a.m. and protect her interests.

A Copy, Teste: FRANK D. HARGROVE, JR., Clerk I ask for this: Law Office of Dorothy M. Eure, P.C. Dorothy M. Eure, Plaintiff’s Attorney VSB# 27724 8460 Mount Eagle Road Ashland, VA 23005 (804) 798-9667

who have been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to their last known address, have not been personally located and have not filed a response to this action; and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.”

IT IS ORDERED that CLARENCE TUCKER, DORIS OLIVIA PAIGE, ALFRED EDWARD TUCKER, JR, SHEILA MAY BALTRIP, RICHARD ALVIN TUCKER, PHYLLIS ANN HUNTER, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before OCTOber 25, 2018 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

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

information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, PERNELL RICKS, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, H I N TO N S T I T H , u p o n information and belief deceased, CHARLES H. TAYLOR, ANNE TAYLOR, BLANCHE RICKS, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before OCTOber 25, 2018 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

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

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

IT IS ORDERED that DANIEL BATES, owner per a deed filed in the records of the Henrico Circuit Court at Deed Book 93 page 660 on July 17, 1874, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before OCTOber 25, 2018 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

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

Court at Deed Book 344C page 144 on June 17, 1927, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before OCTOber 25, 2018 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

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

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER SHAWANA HALL PORTER, Plaintiff v.

BRUCE PORTER, JR., Defendant.

Case No.: CL18002336-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

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

It is ORDERED that the defendant, who is a nonresident, appear here on or before the 19th day of September, 2018 at 9:00 a.m. and protect his interests.

A Copy, Teste: FRANK D. HARGROVE, JR., Clerk I ask for this: Dorothy M. Eure, Esquire VSB# 27724 Law Office of Dorothy M. Eure, P.C. 8460 Mount Eagle Road Ashland, VA 23005 (804) 798-9667 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER ADY ORTIZ PACHON, Plaintiff v.

OSCAR PEREZ, Defendant.

Case No.: CL18002088-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

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

It is ORDERED that the defendant, who has been served with the Complaint by posted service appear here on or before the 19th day of September, 2018 at 9:00 a.m. and protect his interests.

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

ANN REDD, Defendant.

Case No.: CL16001041-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

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

It is ORDERED that the defendant, who has been served with the Complaint by posted service appear here on or before the 19th day of September, 2018 at 9:00 a.m. and protect her interests.

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

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

MARVIN A ROBINSON, SR, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL18-2904 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 445 West Duval Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number N0000210/053, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Marvin A. Robinson, Sr, and Goldie L. Robinson.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owners, MARVIN A ROBINSON, SR, and GOLDIE L. ROBINSON, who have been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to their last known address, have not been personally located and have not filed a response to this action; that STUART L. WILLIAMS, Trustee of for a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 10-6900 on April 22, 2010, or his successor/s in title, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.”

IT IS ORDERED that MARVIN A ROBINSON, SR, GOLDIE L. ROBINSON, STUART L. WILLIAMS, Trustee of for a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 10-6900 on April 22, 2010, or his successor/s in title, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before OCTOber 25, 2018 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

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

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER JACOB BRANCH, SR., Plaintiff v.

ELISHIA BRANCH, Defendant.

Case No.: CL18002389-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce from the bond of matrimony from

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

CLARENCE TUCKER, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL18-3207 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 118 Lipscomb Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number S0000150/018, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Clarence Tucker, Doris Olivia Paige, Alfred Edward Tucker, Jr, Richard Alvin Tucker, Phyllis Ann Hunter, Sheila May Baltrip, and Margaret Delois Paige.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owners, CLARENCE TUCKER, DORIS OLIVIA PAIGE, ALFRED EDWARD TUCKER, JR, and SHEILA MAY BALTRIP, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action, that said owners, RICHARD ALVIN TUCKER, and PHYLLIS ANN HUNTER,

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

MARY P. BROWN, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL18-3917 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 1007 North 3rd Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number N0000088/025, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Mary P. Brown, Pernell Ricks, Hinton Stith, Charles H. Taylor, Anne Taylor, and Blanche Ricks.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owners, MARY P. BROWN, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, PERNELL RICKS, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, and HINTON STITH, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; that said owners, CHARLES H. TAYLOR, ANNE TAYLOR, and BLANCHE RICKS, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.”

IT IS ORDERED that MARY P. BROWN, upon

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Divorce VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER WENDY HINES, Plaintiff v.

MCGILL HINES, Defendant.

Case No.: CL18002560-00 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 2nd day of October, 2018 at 9:00 a.m. and protect his interests.

A Copy, Teste: FRANK D. HARGROVE, JR., Clerk I ask for this: Law Office of Dorothy M. Eure, P.C. Dorothy M. Eure, Plaintiff’s Attorney VSB# 27724 8460 Mount Eagle Road Ashland, VA 23005 (804) 798-9667

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

JOSEPH W. DOBYNS, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL18-3447 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 1505 Perry Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number S0000202/010, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Joseph W. Dobyns.

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

IT IS ORDERED that JOSEPH W. DOBYNS, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before OCTOber 25, 2018 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

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

CEASAR V. COLES, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL18-3273 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 1512 West Leigh Street Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number N000-0676/032, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Ceasar V. Coles.

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

IT IS ORDERED that CEASAR V. COLES, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before OCTOber 25, 2018 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

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

DANIEL BATES, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL18-3828 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 2101 Phaup Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number E0120259/001, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Daniel Bates.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, DANIEL BATES, owner per a deed filed in the records of the Henrico Circuit Court at Deed Book 93 page 660 on July 17, 1874, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or Continued on next column

Notice Judicial Sale of Real Property Owner/s of the below listed properties are hereby given Notice that thirty days from the date of this notice, proceedings will be commenced under the authority of Section 58.1-3965 et seq. of the Code of Virginia to sell the following parcels located in the City of Richmond, Virginia for payment of delinquent taxes: 3122 1st Avenue N0001060001 1009 North 2nd Street N0000086012 1005 North 3rd Street N0000088024 1903 North 25th Street E0120398002 1108 North 26th Street E0000519009 1813½ North 28th Street E0120427006 1921 North 28th Street E0120401001 1029 North 30th Street E0000628038 1209 North 31st Street E0000721023 1208½ North 32nd Street E0000721013 1323 North 32nd Street E0000801024 1423 North 32nd Street E0000800017 239 East 36th Street S0002602017 2 East Bacon Street N0000228015 1800 Bainbridge Street S0000242008 1806 aka 1804 Bainbridge Street S0000242005 1800 Bath Street N0000946022 1810 Bath Street N0000946027 405 Catherine Street N0000208007 2611 Dale Avenue S0090301028 4324 Ferguson Lane C0080430024 466½ East Ladies Mile Road N0001664005 1902 Maury Street S0000290008 617 Northside Avenue N0001150010 5304 Parker Street E0100139003 3011 Q Street E0000628004 3310 Richmond Henrico Turnpike N0001258012 2513 Robert Moore Circle N0000663017 1436 Rogers Street E0000768003 2015 Selden Street E0120285009 3113 Veranda Avenue N0001054021 5512 Walmsley Boulevard C0080185036 205 Wickham Street N0000446019 The owner/s of any property listed may redeem it at any time before the date of the sale by paying all accumulated taxes, penalties, interest and cost thereon, including the pro rata cost of publication hereunder.

Gregory A. Lukanuski, Deputy City Attorney Office of the City Attorney for the City of Richmond 900 East Broad Street, Room 400 Richmond, Virginia (804) 646-7940 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v.

LILLIE REDD, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL18-3604 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 615 North 30th St, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number E000-0632/035, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Lillie Redd.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, LILLIE REDD, owner per a deed filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Deed Book 344C page 144 on June 17, 1927, has not been located and has not filed a response to this action, and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.”

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

NEAL KENNEDY, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL18-112 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 1505 North 22nd Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number E000-0778/016, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Neil Kennedy.

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

IT IS ORDERED that N E A L K E N N E D Y, a n d Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before OCTOber 25, 2018 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

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

WELLS FARGO BANK, NA fka SOUTHERN BANK AND TRUST COMPANY, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL18-3084 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 3506 Woodson Avenue, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number N0001552/011, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Wells Fargo Bank, NA fka Southern Bank and Trust Company.

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

IT IS ORDERED that Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before OCTOber 25, 2018 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

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

BIDS COUNTY OF HENRICO, VIRGINIA CONSTRUCTION BID ITB# 18-1728-7JCK Library Headquarters Exterior Entrance Rehab Due 2:30 pm, September 6, 2018 Additional information available at: h t t p : / / w w w. h e n r i c o . u s / purchasing/

other VIRGINIA: IN THE GENERAL DISTRICT COURT FOR THE CITY OF RICHMOND TAMMY R. LEE-GULLEY, Plaintiff v.

DONYELLE WHITEHEAD and ANOITED ONEZ TRUCKING LLC, Defendants.

Case No.: GV17038949-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this abovestyled suit is to recover for a breach of contract.

And, it appearing by affidavit filed according to law that Donyelle Whitehead, one of the above-named defendants, cannot be located, it is therefore ORDERED that the said Donyelle Whitehead needs to appear on October 9, 2018 at 10:00 AM, before this Court, whose address is 400 North 9th Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219 and do what is necessary to protect their interests.

An Extract: Teste: SANDRA C. BLOUNT, Clerk Benjamin M. Andrews (VSB No. 77824) AndrewsBrown PLC 5711 Greendale Road Henrico, VA 23228 Telephone: (804) 918-2091 Facsimile: (888) 568-2684

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The Department of Housing and Community Development will receive written comments on these results through the close of business on September 26, 2018 at the following address:

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