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A battle supreme Dems, civil rights groups and others gearing up for confirmation fight over U.S. Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh Free Press staff, wire report

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Celebrating a new American Arielle Lawson Drackey, 6, waits with family members for her father, Late Lawson Drackey of Fredericksburg, as he takes the oath of citizenship during a July 4 naturalization ceremony at the Virginia Museum of History and Culture.

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To President Trump, he’s “a judge’s judge” and “a brilliant legal mind” who deserves swift confirmation.

But to Vanita Gupta, president and chief executive officer of the umbrella Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, new Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh is “a direct threat to our rights and unfit to serve on our nation’s highest court with his record of putting the rich ahead of the rest of us.”

To Sherilyn Ifill, president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, the 53-year-old D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals judge would “jeopardize the progress in civil rights law that has been made in the past 78 years by seeking to roll back fair housing laws, affirmative action and a woman’s right to choose.”

And national NAACP President Derrick Johnson declared that the nation’s oldest civil rights group views Judge Kavanaugh as an enemy of “civil rights, workers’ rights, consumer rights and women’s rights.”

Recalling the NAACP’s opposition to Judge Kavanaugh’s appointment to the appeals court, Mr. Johnson stated that “with a Justice Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court, we could see reversals of hard won gains in equal opportunity in education, employment and housing.

“We could see further exclusion of communities of color from participation in our democracy. We could see racism continue to flourish within the criminal justice system. We could see the elimination of effective tools for proving discrimination.”

All of that makes clear the kind of opposition that Judge Kavanaugh will face as he seeks U.S. Senate confirmation in the coming weeks, with much of the leadership of the African-

Sacred Ground project wins $75,000 national grant for slavery memorial park

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

A group supporting development of a memorial park in Shockoe Bottom to recall the crucial role this area of Richmond played in the slave trade has won a $75,000 grant from a national trust to support its work.

“We plan to use the money for a two-part study on the economic impact and benefit of developing a park,” said Ana Edwards, chair of the Sacred Ground Historical Reclamation Project, who helped spearhead the park proposal.

One part of the study would examine the tourism benefit of such a park, Ms. Edwards said, while the second part “would seek out nontraditional models of such projects that are sustainable” to offer ideas for Richmond to replicate.

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Ana Edwards, chair of the Sacred Ground Historical Reclamation Project, leads a tour in July 2016 of the African Burial Ground and Lumpkin’s Jail site in Shockoe Bottom. Her audience is composed of young people taking part in a summer leadership program sponsored by the Maggie Walker National Historic Site.

vation group, joined the Sacred Ground Reclamation Project, The Valentine museum and the Center for Design at the University of Massachusetts to secure the grant, she said.

Mayor Levar M. Stoney and members of Richmond

Jones to revive effort for city control over Confederate statues

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

Richmond City Councilman Michael J. Jones is going to try again to get City Council support for removing state control of the Confederate statues that litter Richmond’s landscape.

Now that Mayor Levar M. Stoney’s Monument Avenue Commission has called for Mr. Jones removal of one of the statues on Monument Avenue, the 9th District councilman said Monday that he sees it as an opportunity to introduce a new resolution to overcome the state blockade.

“In my view, local governments should have authority over the statues within their boundaries,” Mr. Jones said. “It shouldn’t be up to the state to decide what we can or cannot do with them.”

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City Council have indicated support for creation of a park that would recognize sites in Shockoe Bottom that were central to the slave trade, but have yet to take any steps to advance it.

Meanwhile, the city has millions of dollars squirreled away to pay for developing a museum-style project at the Shockoe Bottom site dubbed the “Devil’s Half-Acre,” where enslaved people were imprisoned and sold.

That development at the site of Lumpkin’s Jail, which became the initial home of Virginia Union University in 1865, also has yet to advance, though the city has paid for consultants to work on the development.

Shockoe Bottom joins 15 other African-American heritage sites that shared in $1.1 million in grants that the National Trust for Historic Preservation issued last week.

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Brett M. Kavanaugh, 53, promises to be an independent justice who would keep “an open mind in every case” in accepting President Trump’s nomination to be a justice on the U.S. Supreme Court. A judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, he was introduced Monday night at the White House as the president’s choice to replace retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy, 81.

American and Latino communities seeking to prevent him from being seated on the court.

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky must muster a bare majority of senators to send Judge Kavanaugh to the high court to fill the seat that his mentor and former boss, Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, is leaving.

Judge Kavanaugh started his legal career working as a law clerk for Justice Kennedy, long considered the swing vote on the nine-member court. There are rumors the 81-year-old agreed to retire after receiving assurances his protégé would replace him.

While the civil rights community is rallying against Judge Kavanaugh, Sen. McConnell and other Republican supporters are hailing him as a “superb pick” who could help entrench conservative, corporate-supported control of the law for years to come.

While some Democrats promised to fight to block the nominee, it will be an uphill climb as Republicans control the Senate by a 51-49 margin, though that margin is slimmer with GOP Sen. John McCain absent in Arizona battling brain cancer.

Judge Kavanaugh, who would follow Justice Neil Gorsuch as a Trump pick on the court, is a well-known figure in Washington and has been involved in some of the biggest controversies of the past two decades.

He helped investigate former Democratic President Bill Clinton in the 1990s working for independent counsel Ken-

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Michael Beckley, 17, mows the lawn while Xavier Edmonds, 16, whacks weeds last Saturday at a vacant home on Garber Street in Fulton before seeking customers for paying jobs through the 4-H Lawn Maintenance Program started by Wyatt Kingston.

New Fulton program helps youths develop skills for jobs, money

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

As a full-time city recreation specialist, Wyatt Kingston sees plenty of Richmond youths who need and want to make money to help their families.

So in his spare time, he has volunteered to do something about it.

The 67-year-old Richmond native has created a small lawn maintenance program for youths ages 12 to 18 from the Rainbow

City public housing community in Fulton who are eager to work and need a helping hand to get started.

He has enrolled eight young people who have spent the past two weeks learning how to properly use mowers and weed whackers, as well as getting information on life skills in Mr. Kingston’s 4-H Lawn Maintenance program.

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Cityscape Slices of life and scenes in Richmond

For 86 years, the Carillon, left, has been a towering landmark in Byrd Park, with bronze bells at the top ringing out music at community events.

The 25-story, state-owned building that opened in 1932 as a enduring memorial to the 3,000 Virginians who died in World War I, is now closed for repairs. Workers, right, are undertaking the task of repairing the ravages of time and weather, replacing the elevator, upgrading the fire alarm, air conditioning, heating, electrical and plumbing systems and bringing the building into compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. The state Department of General Services is overseeing the work, which is expected to finish in time for the Nov. 11 ceremony marking the 100th anniversary of the end of the conflict known as the “war to end all wars.”

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City Democratic GRTC learns good news, bad news Committee to hold reorganizing caucus July 20 Free Press staff report

The Virginia Democratic Party apparently is seeking to limit participation as it begins the process of reorganizing the Richmond City Democratic Committee.

In an announcement Tuesday, the state party stated that the committee would be reorganized and new officers elected at a caucus 6 p.m. Friday, July 20, at a location that has not been determined.

The party is requiring people who want to participate to apply online for membership in the city committee, essentially leaving out anyone without a computer or easy access to the state party website.

Only people who apply by 5 p.m. Tuesday, July 17, and are approved by the state party will be allowed to take part in the reorganization of the committee and the subsequent elections.

The state party last month removed the city committee president, James E. “J.J.” Minor III, and other officers and suspended the Richmond committee’s operations after throwing out the results of the January election.

The state party upheld a finding that the election was not properly conducted under party rules.

Mr. Minor has not said whether he will seek the presidency again, although he indicated he was considering it.

Applications for membership in the reorganized committee are available at vademocrats.org on the events page or at vademocrats.org/rcdc, the party stated.

Information: Email political@vademocrats.org.

Parental leave expanded for city workers City employees who have a new baby or who adopt will have longer to bond with the child.

Richmond Mayor Levar M. Stoney announced Monday that a new family leave benefit is being expanded.

Instead of four weeks under the plan City Council approved with the budget, new birth mothers may receive up to eight weeks of paid leave. New fathers also would be eligible for up to eight weeks of paid leave, instead of four weeks.

The eight weeks of paid parental leave also would apply to city employees who adopt a child or accept a foster care placement, also up from four weeks.

The policy change also allows city employees to receive up to four weeks of paid leave to care for a parent with a serious health condition.

Mayor Stoney stated that the expansion would allow the city, one of the first localities in Virginia to offer paid parental leave, to match the paid parental leave policy Gov. Ralph S. Northam instituted for state employees.

“I applaud Gov. Northam for announcing this important policy change for state workers,” said Mayor Stoney, who first proposed Richmond’s parental leave policy when he introduced the city’s biennial budget in March.

“Our newly expanded parental leave policy will now provide the same benefits to city workers and allow us to remain competitive in recruiting and retaining talented employees. It is also the right thing to do.”

Inmate search tool available

It just became a bit easier to find out if someone is locked up at the Richmond Justice Center.

A new inmate search database is now available online at the Richmond City Sheriff’s Office website, www.Richmondgov. com/Sheriff, it was announced Tuesday.

The new service will allow the public to search by the individual’s last name, first name or inmate identification number to verify if an individual is in custody, Sheriff Antionette V. Irving announced in launching the service.

The system will provide information on an individual’s charges, booking date, bond requirement and next court date.

Details: Richmond Sheriff’s Office, (804) 646-4464.

Corrections Brian Palmer is a volunteer with the Friends of East End Cemetery. His first name was incorrect in the July 5-7 edition.

Also, there are 10 members of the Monument Avenue Commission, instead of seven as the Free Press reported in the same edition.

And in the July 5-7 edition Cityscape, Shima Grover’s last name was misspelled.

The Free Press regrets the errors.

The start of the Pulse bus rapid transit system and the overhaul of bus routes appears to be a good news-bad news story for GRTC. The good news: Early returns indicate that ridership on Pulse is exceeding projections.

The company reported that 15,834 passengers rode Pulse in the first four days after fares went into effect Sunday, July 1, or an average of nearly 4,000 people a day.

The first four days included both a Sunday and the July Fourth holiday, when ridership is generally lower.

GRTC had projected 3,500 people a day would catch the Pulse.

While it is still too soon to call the service a success, the strong ridership numbers follow the huge response between June 24 and June 30 when nearly 57,000 people took advantage of free rides. The number of opening week riders was 2.5 times the company’s goal, according to GRTC spokeswoman Carrie Rose Pace.

The bad news: GRTC is receiving serious blowback from its revamped routes and shutdown of bus stops.

People turned out Monday for a special meeting of the Randolph Neighborhood Association to vent their concerns to GRTC representatives and City Councilman Parker C. Agelasto.

The two buses that previously served the area have been reduced to one, with service

starting later and ending far earlier.

Participants criticized GRTC for sharply reducing the number of bus stops in the Randolph and Maymont neighborhoods.

They also said that GRTC is making it harder to get to work on time or get to medical and other appointments, according to Takita Small, a Randolph resident who attended the meeting of more than 60 people.

One person spoke of having to walk from Meadow and Broad streets after dark because the Cary/Maymont 78 bus stopped running at 7 p.m.

Another resident complained about the increased difficulty of using GRTC to get to a 9:30 a.m. appointment. She said she had to catch a bus between 6:30 and 7 a.m. to reach her destination, but was so early that she had to wait outside the office for more than an hour until it opened.

Ms. Small said that GRTC was scolded for shutting down virtually all the bus stops in Randolph and limiting service while having multiple lines run through Carytown.

GRTC also heard from elderly residents living in senior housing at 700 S. Lombardy St. who criticized the public transit company for shutting down the bus stop in front of their building and forcing them to walk six blocks to catch a bus.

Ms. Pace urged elderly people to consider shifting from regular buses to use of the CARE van service that provides door-to-door rides.

Ms. Small noted that the van service is only available to elderly and disabled people who meet certain criteria and costs $3 to $6 one way compared to $1.50 for a one-way bus ride.

Mr. Agelasto told meeting participants that city decisions to have GRTC spend 70 percent of its funding on faster service and 30 percent on neighborhood coverage are behind many of these changes.

Many of the speakers, Ms. Small said, expressed concerned about how they would make out in the fall and winter when it gets darker earlier, the temperatures are colder and inclement weather is more frequent.

Ms. Small said a man told the group he called GRTC and asked if an ambassador could meet and help him at 7 a.m. and was told no, which came as a surprise to Ms. Pace.A young woman also complained the GRTC mobile phone app isn’t working properly.

Mr. Agelasto urged people to send letters with their complaints and experiences to him so that he can present them at City Council.

While GRTC has reported on Pulse ridership, it has provided no results for ridership on regular routes in the wake of the revamp.

To Ms. Small, its seems GRTC has put effort and money into creating the Pulse line that runs between The Shops at Willow Lawn and Rocketts Landing while ignoring all the people who depend on GRTC regularly for transportation.

“It isn’t helping us,” Ms. Small said.

Historic Resources officials make way for Intermediate Terminal building demolition

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

The state Department of Historic Resources has upheld City Hall’s view that a landmark warehouse in the city’s East End, once a major source of jobs for AfricanAmericans, has no historical value and can be demolished to make way for the modern bistro and restaurant that Stone Brewing Co. wants to build.

Laura Lavernia, an architectural historian for DHR, delivered the agency’s conclusion about the vacant building at 3101 E. Main St. to city staff in a letter dated July 6.

The letter is good news for Mayor Levar M. Stoney and his staff, who want to clear away the massive, reinforced concrete building at Intermediate Terminal where dozens of workers once unloaded, repackaged and reloaded Cuban sugar for the Hershey Co. The beer company agreed three years ago to renovate the old warehouse and turn it into a bistro and beer garden as part of the city taxpayer-subsidized deal that brought the company to Richmond.

The warehouse is a familiar building to many. It sits along the James River beside Main Street and stretches on giant pillars over Dock Street. Traffic drives under the warehouse going to and from Main Street or state Route 5.

However, the company now claims renovation would be too expensive, even with a promised $8 million loan from the city. The company has the mayor’s support to replace the riverfront structure while still being able to get the loan and other city subsidies.

Mayor Stoney has sent legislation to City Council seeking approval, but the legislation has remained on hold as the city went through the DHR review process.

Now it will be up to City Council to determine the fate of the building. The

council could support demolition or alternatively scrap the deal with Stone Brewing Co. and direct the city to put the building up for bids now that the beer company has backed out of its deal to renovate it.

Another party, Jearald D. “Jerry” Cable, owner of The Tobacco Company restaurant in Shockoe Slip, has offered to buy the building for a “fair market value” to renovate it for a restaurant and to do so without any city subsidies.

Others might be interested if the building is auctioned.

The property, now owned by the city’s

Economic Development Authority, is assessed at $1.8 million.

DHR became involved because a federal law requires a historic review any time federal funding is used, and that has been the case for the area around the building.

In her letter, Ms. Lavernia stated that DHR has come to agree with the city’s consultant, Dutton & Associates, that the building cannot quality for listing on state and federal registers of historic places.

The building was once part of a major city effort to rebuild its declining shipping and commercial trading business.

Richmond has long been a center for water-born trade, first for natives and then for the English who arrived in the early 17th century. Nearby Rocketts Landing was the first English trading post.

The city’s location at the falls of the James River made it a center for exports

of flour milled from Shenandoah Valley, wheat and Midlothian coal and for the slave trade until the Civil War ended slavery.

But it continued to be a bustling port as new industries arrived.

In the 1920s and 1930s with federal help, the city invested heavily in developing three warehouses, a rail spur, a dock and a crane to upgrade its port facilities. The current building, which opened in 1937, is the last of the three warehouses.

The new infrastructure helped the city become a booming port through the Korean War, but the warehouses began shutting down when the city could not compete with Norfolk and other Hampton Roads ports for deeper draft ships. Richmond’s Deepwater Terminal in South Side continues as the city’s sole port, with its heaviest use from barges carrying goods upriver from Hampton Roads.

Once independent, the state now leases the Richmond port.

As Ms. Lavernia and the Dutton consulting company noted, Intermediate Terminal is hardly recognizable.

“Due to demolition of the associated warehouses, at least partial demolition of the wharf and removal of a rolling crane and railroad segments, the complex has lost integrity of setting, design, materials, workmanship, feeling and association,” Ms. Lavernia wrote.

“Accordingly, DHR concurs with the city’s finding of ‘no historic properties affected’ if the warehouse is removed.

The DHR committee that made the determination stated in its notes that the warehouse could be part of a “discontiguous” historic district that might fit together with the Deepwater Terminal and other elements such as the canals and turning basin. But the committee stated it had too little information on those elements and declined to request that the city provide information on them.

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New citizens Below, at the podium, Judge Roger L. Gregory, chief judge of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, talks to 96 immigrants and their family members during the Fourth of July naturalization ceremony where they officially became U.S. citizens. The ceremony was held outside the Virginia Museum of History and

Culture on the Boulevard. Above left, Henrico County resident Hanan Mohamed, 26, left, a native of Sudan, takes the citizenship oath with people from more than 40 countries. Above right, Richmond resident Beato Hernandez, 33, a native of Mexico, poses for a photo with Judge Gregory after the ceremony.

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neth Starr.

He also was on Republican George W. Bush’s team in the contentious Florida recount fight in the 2000 presidential election, then served as a senior official in Bush’s White House.

Judge Kavanaugh would not immediately change the ideological breakdown of a court that already has a 5-4 conservative majority, but nevertheless could move the court to the right. Justice Kennedy sometimes joined the liberal justices on key rulings on such social issues like abortion and gay rights, a practice his replacement may not duplicate.

Judge Kavanaugh has amassed a solidly conservative judicial record since 2006 with the 300 opinions he has written since joining the D.C. court, the same court on which three current justices previously served, including Chief Justice John Roberts.

“My judicial philosophy is straightforward: A judge must be independent and must interpret the law, not make the law,” Judge Kavanaugh said after accepting the nomination Monday at the White House.

“A judge must interpret statutes as written. And a judge must interpret the Constitution as written, informed by history and tradition and precedent,” he said in remarks in which he also talked about his family and emphasized his Roman Catholic faith.

Judge Kavanaugh survived a three-year confirmation fight to get on the appeals court.

Opponents are hoping Republican Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska will help block his confirmation. Sens. Collins and Murkowski support abortion rights and plan to carefully vet Judge Kavanaugh’s views on women’s rights.

Meanwhile, Republicans are hoping for votes of support from several Democratic senators facing re-election this year in Republican-leaning states, including Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia, Joe Donnelly of Indiana and Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota.

The new justice can be expected to cast crucial votes on matters of national importance including gay rights, gun control, the death penalty and voting rights.

The court could also be called upon to render judgment on issues of personal significance to President Trump and his administration, including matters arising from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s ongoing Russia-related investigation and several civil lawsuits pending against President Trump.

People are now combing through his opinions, which have a consistent business-first, citizens-last ring, according to legal scholars.

For example, Judge Kavanaugh faulted Obama-era environmental regulations, including upholding a coal company’s challenge to emis-

sions policies aimed at fighting climate change.

In 2016, he wrote the appeals court decision that found unconstitutional the structure of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which was formed under President Obama to stop banks and other powerful corporations from gouging ordinary people.

In 2011, he dissented as the court upheld a District of Columbia gun law that banned semi-automatic rifles, opining that such weapons of war are open to citizen ownership under the U.S. Constitution’s Second Amendment Last October, he was part of a panel of judges that issued an order preventing a 17-yearold undocumented immigrant detained in Texas by U.S. authorities from immediately obtaining an abortion. That decision was overturned by the full appeals court, and she had the abortion.

Judge Kavanaugh wrote in a dissent that the full court was embracing “a new right for unlawful immigrant minors in U.S. government detention to obtain immediate abortion on demand.”

He also dissented in 2015 when the appeals court spurned religious groups that sought an exemption from a requirement under the 2010 Obamacare healthcare law that employers provide health insurance that covers birth control for women.

Judge Kavanaugh grew up in Bethesda, Md., and attended the same high school as Justice Gorsuch. Both men served as clerks in the Supreme Court’s 1993-1994 term to Justice Kennedy, who announced his retirement on June 27.

A graduate of Yale Law School, Judge Kavanaugh may have helped save President Obama’s health care law by mentioning in a dissent that the requirement to buy health insurance seemed like a tax,

an idea that the Chief Justice Roberts picked up in upholding the Affordable Care Act in 2012.

In his remarks on Monday, Judge Kavanaugh sought to spotlight his bipartisan credentials. He noted that he has taught at Harvard Law School, where he was hired by Justice

Elena Kagan, a former Harvard dean who is now on the U.S. Supreme Court. He said a majority of his clerks have been women.

He worked for four years for Mr. Starr, whose investigation of President Clinton helped spur an effort by congressional Republicans in 1998 and 1999

to impeach the Democratic president and remove him from office.

In 2009, Judge Kavanaugh wrote a law review article questioning the value of that investigation and concluding that presidents should be free from the distractions of civil lawsuits, criminal prosecutions

and investigations while in office.

That view has assumed fresh relevance, with President Trump facing several civil lawsuits as well as a Russia-related criminal investigation by Mr. Mueller. The Supreme Court could be called upon to weigh in on these matters.

Responses to Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh’s nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court: U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine “A Supreme Court nomination is the most consequential appointment that the Senate ever considers. As I have with nominees in the past, I will carefully review Judge Kavanaugh’s character, legal decisions, and writing to determine whether he should be confirmed to this crucial position. There are critical issues at stake, and four in particular I’ll be focusing on: “Would Judge Kavanaugh respect rulings upholding the Affordable Care Act, which guarantees protections for Americans with preexisting conditions?

“As a longtime civil rights lawyer, I’m focused on whether Judge Kavanaugh would safeguard the civil rights of all Americans regardless of race, gender, religion, national Sen. Kaine origin, disability, or sexual orientation and ensure that all are protected from discrimination.

“Would Judge Kavanaugh protect women’s freedom to make their own reproductive health care decisions?

“And would Judge Kavanaugh be independent and willing to exercise appropriate checks against the Presidency, especially given this president’s alarming claims that he has the power to fire Special Counsel (Robert) Mueller or pardon himself?

“I’m encouraging Virginians to send me feedback on what they’re looking for in a Supreme Court justice, and I won’t make a final decision until I have met one-on-one with Judge Kavanaugh and observed his performance in the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. It could have catastrophic consequences if (Sen. Majority Leader Mitch) McConnell rushes to confirm a nominee. There should not be a vote until the American public has a chance to speak in November.”

U.S. Sen. Mark R. Warner “There is much at stake with President Trump’s nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to fill the vacancy created by Justice (Anthony) Kennedy’s retirement. The next Supreme Court justice will determine whether women will maintain their constitutional right to reproductive health care; whether we will continue to protect people with pre-existing conditions from discrimination; whether we are a country that lives by our values when it comes to voting rights, women’s rights, workers’ rights and the rights of LGBT Americans.

“The stakes are made that much higher by an Administration that routinely violates longstanding norms and pushes ethical boundaries past the Sen. Warner breaking point. We need a Supreme Court that can act as a check on the executive branch now more than ever.

“Time and time again, President Trump has said that he will only nominate candidates who will vote to undermine those rights and who will work to overturn Roe v. Wade.

That simple fact, and that this nominee comes from a list put together by ultraconservative groups who do not support these core values, gives me grave concerns that Judge Kavanaugh is not the right pick to serve on our nation’s highest court.

“I plan to carefully examine Judge Kavanaugh’s record and judicial philosophy. I cannot and will not support a nominee who would take this country backwards by undermining our fundamental rights and American values.”

Congressman A. Donald McEachin, 4th District “President Trump has made his selection for the Supreme Court.

“Mr. Brett Kavanaugh has made some very troubling statements in the past on a host of critical issues. As Americans we have a responsibility to stand for our civil liberties and our Constitution and to ensure that whoever sits on the Supreme Court will protect our freedoms and ensure all Americans have equal opportunity, justice and fairness.

“I have very serious concerns about Mr. Kavanaugh’s commitment to those values.”

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for the Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, a key figure in the fight for civil rights.

The funds are coming from the trust’s new AfricanAmerican Cultural Heritage Fund that was set up to support work to preserve, protect and promote sites related to African-American history.

Brent Leggs, who directs the fund, said AfricanAmerican historic places traditionally have been undervalued and underfunded.

“Through the action fund, we have the opportunity to raise the visibility and the full contributions of African-Americans to our nation,” he said.

He said the fund received 830 applications, which were narrowed to 16 winners.

Mr. Leggs said the fund was created in the aftermath of the violent and deadly “Unite the Right” rally last summer in Charlottesville, “where “heritage, culture and public spaces collided,” as a way to “tell the whole history of our nation and to foster understanding, healing and reconciliation.”

The rally drew hundreds of white nationalists and neo-Confederates when Charlottesville officials planned to remove a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. After vicious brawling broke out between white nationalists and counterdemonstrators, a self-professed white supremacist from Ohio drove his car into a crowd of counterdemonstrators, killing one and injuring many. He now faces federal hate crime charges, along with state charges that include murder.

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ing, Monday, July 23, but did not expect his proposal to come up for a vote until after council’s traditional August recess.

Currently, a longtime state law bars cities and counties from removing, replacing, altering or otherwise marring wartime statues once they go up. While the law covers a long list of conflicts, the main purpose of the law is to protect Confederate statues like those on Monument Avenue.

A proponent of taking down the statues, Mr. Jones failed to win City Council support last year for his

resolution for a change in state law to allow removal of Confederate statues.

The resolution would have put City Council on record as requesting the General Assembly to grant the council authority to remove the statues of Confederates Robert E. Lee, J.E.B. Stuart, Jefferson Davis, Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson and Matthew Fontaine Maury.

This time, Mr. Jones said he would focus on the state law’s restriction of local control and not include language about getting rid of the statues.

“We can debate whether or not to remove the statues once we get authority. Right now, we don’t

have any ability to do anything,” he said.

On July 2, the Monument Avenue Commission recommended removing the statue of Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederacy, and called for putting up contextual signage at the other four monuments, including the Lee statue at Allen and Monument avenues that is owned by the state.

However, others have noted that the signs would have to be tiny to avoid running afoul of the state law protecting the statues. That law forbids localities from posting signs that would mar an observer’s view of the statues.

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Last weekend, participants practiced their skills and began marketing themselves by mowing, edging and tidying up an overgrown and untended lawn at a vacant house at 1009 Garber St. in Fulton.

This week, crew members are going out in teams of two to recruit customers. Mr. Kingston has produced fliers for the teams to distribute to advertise their services. He said he expects them to charge $20 to $30 a yard.

“All of the money they make from customers they recruit will be theirs,” he said. “I just hope they can be successful in finding people to employ them so they make some additional income.

“If this summer program goes well, they won’t have to stop when summer ends. They could do leaf raking in the fall and maybe some snow shoveling in the winter,” said Mr. Kingston, who is donating his time to the job development effort.

Others have pitched in to help get the program underway.

For example, Nick Costas, an investment banker, bought work gloves and contributed the mowers and weed whackers.

He admires Mr. Kingston’s commitment to the city’s youths and previously helped Mr. Kingston launch and operate the Richmond Angels, a girls lacrosse program that flourished for a few years but ended.

Another supporter is Montrell Brown, who grew up in Hillside Court and now has his own lawn care service, Brown’s Lawn in Order. He provided the training.

Mr. Brown met Mr. Kingston at the now closed Boys and Girls Club in Hillside Court, where Mr. Kingston served as director. Three of the members under Mr. Kingston’s tutelage went on to win state Youth of the Year honors.

As director, Mr. Kingston, started a gardening program for club members. Mr. Brown was “one of my kids who came up through that program,” he said.

He said Mr. Brown and other club members would grow tomatoes and other vegetables and sell them at the 17th Street Farmers’ Market.

“We had the only booth at the market that was staffed by kids,” Mr. Kingston said. “They kept the money. Too often the money they brought home was the only money in the house.”

As club director for five years, Mr. Kingston also created

a volunteer program for members to cut grass for elderly and disabled people. The effort gained recognition, and City Council granted the program $30,000 to pay for equipment and provide stipends to the youths so they could increase their work.

Mr. Kingston said he decided to work with youths in Rainbow City because of his connection with the Fulton area.

He has long been associated with Gillies Creek Park in Fulton, where as a recreation specialist, he teaches disc golf and other sports. He also has helped the park’s founder, Carl Otto, maintain it and eliminate weeds, brush and unwanted saplings that spring up each year. He also travels to other recreation centers to teach nontraditional sports such as archery and pickle ball.

Helping city youths become successful, particularly those from low-income families, is his passion.

“I love the kids. I grew up without a mother and father, and I can relate to them,” said Mr. Kingston, who has been involved with the city Department of Parks, Recreation and Community Facilities or other youth-serving programs since the 1980s.

“I know they need money coming into the household. I am trying to teach these kids how to be winners and how to make the most out of life.”

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Dr. Monroe E. Harris to lead VMFA board Free Press staff report

Dr. Monroe E. Harris Jr., a Richmond oral and maxillofacial surgeon and avid collector of African and African-American art, has been elected president of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts’ Board of Trustees.

Dr. Harris, who has served on the board for five years, took over the post July 1.

He is the first African-American to lead the board in the museum’s 82-year history.

He was vice president of the board and succeeds Michael J. Schewel in the leadership post.

In brief remarks to the Free Press, Dr. Harris said it’s an honor to be elected as the board’s president.

“We want to be the leading museum collector of AfricanAmerican art in the United States as we diversify the staff and leadership opportunities for people of color as we serve our community,” he said.

He said the museum has added pieces by African-American artists to its permanent collection and will continue to do so.

VMFA recently acquired 34 works by black artists from the Atlanta-based Souls

Related story on B2 Grown Deep Foundation. The art will be on special exhibition at the museum on the Dr. Harris Boulevard through Nov. 17.

In July 2017, the Free Press also published an article and photo about five African-American women who had been hired for key leadership positions at the museum beginning in 2015.

They are Hazel Duncan, director of finance and accounting of the VMFA Foundation; Jan Hatchette, deputy director for communications; Valerie Cassel Oliver, who began earlier this

Sen. Stanley, Mayor Stoney spar over to school maintenance

Dominion Energy lobbying up tenfold

By Alan Suderman Associated Press

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

Dominion Energy is reporting a recent tenfold increase in spending aimed at influencing Virginia politicians. That spending came as the utility was pushing for a new law that could lead to higher electric bills.

Newly filed lobbying disclosure forms show Dominion spent more than $1 million on lobbyists, entertainment, meals and communications from May 2017 to the end of April 2018.

That’s about 10 times what the company said it spent in last year’s filing.

Company spokesman David Botkins said the increase included “grassroots activity,” television ads and other spending in support of a law passed during this year’s legislative session.

The law puts new limits on a regulators’ ability to lower utilities’ electric rates while making it easier for utilities to build renewable energy projects and improve the electric grid.

Maintenance of public school buildings is your responsibility, Mr. Mayor.

That’s state Sen. William M. “Bill” Stanley’s response to Mayor Levar M. Stoney’s assertion that he had to slash spending for school facilities upkeep because the state is not providing the money Richmond needs to ensure bathrooms work, classrooms are functional and roofs don’t leak.

The senator from Franklin, who chairs the Senate Local

Norfolk police hit 16M views in lip-synch challenge Associated Press

NORFOLK A video of police officers in Virginia dancing and lip-synching to Bruno Mars’ hugely popular song “Uptown Funk” has become a smash hit on the internet.

The Virginian-Pilot reported Tuesday that the Norfolk police department’s “Uptown Funk” video had been viewed more than 16 million times.

The officers were responding to a lip-synch challenge from police in Corinth, Texas.

Officers in the city outside Dallas produced their own video using Miley Cyrus’ “Party in the U.S.A.” The Norfolk officers showed impressive rhythm and choreography as they danced past cubicles and police motorcycles. The group becomes larger until the officers step outside and are joined by otheremergency services personnel as they dance among fire trucks and ambulances.

Departments in Iowa, Georgia and California also have taken up the challenge.

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month as the Sydney and Frances Lewis Family Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art; Kimberly J. Wilson, deputy director for human resources, volunteers and community service; and Paula Saylor-Robinson, director of audience development and community engagement.

Dr. Harris previously served as president of the board of the VMFA Foundation, the museum’s fundraising arm.

Among his many volunteer positions with community organizations, he also is chairman of the board of the Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia in Jackson Ward, past president of the Virginia Repertory Theatre and on the board of the American Civil War Museum.

Dr. Harris also is active with professional organizations, previously serving as president of the Virginia Board of Dentistry and the Virginia Board of Medical Assistance.

The Louisville, Ky., native is married to Dr. Jill Bussey Harris, a Richmond dentist. The couple has a son, Monroe Harris III, and daughter, Madison Harris.

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Government Committee, has begun questioning the mayor and Richmond City Council’s decision to slash spending on school maintenance by 82 percent in the 2018-19 budget.

Sen. Stanley is asking questions about the $7.5 million cut in city support for school maintenance in leading a subcommittee that plans to look at potential state strategies to assist localities to replace or renovate deteriorating public schools.

Last week, Mayor Stoney responded to Sen. Stanley that Richmond was forced to cut its spending because the state is shirking its responsibility to provide needed funding for school maintenance as required by a U.S. Supreme Court decision and the state Constitution.

The court decisions and the Constitution “speak to the responsibilities of the Commonwealth, not the locality,” Mayor Stoney wrote to Sen.

place to learn begins at the local level,” Sen. Stanley wrote.

“Notably (Mayor Stoney) never said that he lacked the necessary annual maintenance money, but rather he tried to divert attention Sen. Stanley Mayor Stoney by focusing on other Stanley in rejecting the implied issues.”

Paul Goldman, leader of the criticism of the city’s cut to Put Schools First Campaign in school maintenance spending.

“Yet despite the requirements of Richmond and special adviser the Constitution, state funding to Sen. Stanley’s subcommittee, also criticized Mayor Stoney’s has decreased.

“As more of our local dollars statement.

“Sadly, on helping Richhave been required to fill the gap left us by the Commonwealth, mond’s minority children get critical items like maintenance decent, basic annual maintehave been deferred,” Mayor nance at their schools, Mayor Stoney concedes he is badly Stoney stated.

Sen. Stanley called that a shortchanging” that item in misread of both the court deci- his budget.

“But then (he) denies any sion and the Constitution.

“A complete reading of both responsibility for his budget the decision and the Virginia choice, blames others and atConstitution demonstrate that tacks those of us calling attenthe responsibility to our students tion to his cruel policy choice,” to provide them with a safe Mr. Goldman stated.

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Dishonorable

Hanky-heads.

Accommodationists.

Those are the best words to describe the Monument Avenue Commission and their weak-kneed recommendations that will do little to move Richmond beyond the continuing grasp of Confederate sympathizers.

The multiracial, 10-person panel of academics, City Council members, arts people and community members appointed by Mayor Levar M. Stoney had a real opportunity to move Richmond from under the pall cast by the grandiose Monument Avenue statues that grossly honor racist, white supremacists who turned against the U.S. government and spilled the blood of thousands in order to keep black people in human bondage.

But the commission blew it.

Instead of recommending the Confederate statues’ removal, the commission kowtowed to bigoted interests that have proven once again that they still have a stranglehold on this city.

In short, the commission’s report issued July 2 recommends that of the five towering statues along Monument Avenue, only that of Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederate States of America, be removed.

Their rationale: “Of all the statues, this one is most unabashedly Lost Cause in its design and sentiment. Davis was not from Richmond or Virginia.”

We don’t care where Confederates Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, J.E.B. Stuart and Matthew Fontaine Maury are from. All of the statues, which started going up in the decades after Reconstruction, were designed to intimidate freed people of color and to remind them of their subservience and inferior place in Richmond and the South that continued to deny their basic human rights under the laws of Jim Crow.

Even while acknowledging that the statues continue to serve as symbols for white supremacists and their violent and bloody rallies, such as the nation sadly observed during last summer’s deadly rally in Charlottesville, the Monument Avenue Commission hides behind the hooped skirts of history and education and recommended that signs be added to put the statues in context.

Unbelievable.

There is no amount of signage, or words or mobile apps or tourism videos to run on the city website and in hotel rooms — yes, all recommendations of the commission — that can balance, blot out or absolve the centuries of pain and injustice brought by the people, ideas and institutions of slavery and Jim Crow that these monstrosities represent.

Nor can adding a statue to the bravery of the U.S. Colored Troops who fought during the Civil War to free black people from slavery — yet another recommendation of the commission — rid us of the terrible reminder the remaining statues present.

It is not complicated. If Richmond is to move forward, the statues must go.

We call on Mayor Stoney, the Richmond Planning Commission and City Council to take the bold and right-minded action commission members were too meek to recommend: Take all of the statues down.

Unlike the commission, we are not concerned about whether a museum has the financial or spatial ability to accept such large statues should they be removed. We believe neo-Confederates and history lovers will pony up what is needed to move the statues to a museum, battlefield, Confederate cemetery or someone’s backyard that would be a more appropriate place from which to revere the past.

We remain focused on Richmond’s future and what we want our children, grandchildren, tourists, new corporations and residents and future generations to see, feel and understand when they drive or stroll down Monument Avenue. And that is a row of statues that publicly honor the honorable, not a sordid Lost Cause.

Supreme fight We hope the American people will not be snookered by President Trump’s pick for the U.S. Supreme Court.

Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh, who currently sits on the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, was chosen as President Trump’s getout-of-jail-free card.

In a 2009 Minnesota Law Review article, Judge Kavanaugh wrote that presidents should be immune from investigation, criminal prosecution and civil suits until after they are out of office. He stated that it would impinge upon the pressing matters of the country for a president to be distracted by personal issues, and wrote that “indictment and trial of a sitting president” would “cripple the federal government.”

Ironically, Judge Kavanaugh didn’t take that position when he was working in 1998 as an attorney for special prosecutor Ken Starr on the investigation of former President Clinton and his sexual relations with Monica Lewinsky. That investigation led to President Clinton’s impeachment while in office.

Now that Special Counsel Robert Mueller is investigating possible collusion by President Trump and his campaign with the Russians to hack the 2016 presidential election, Judge Kavanaugh seems to be in President Trump’s pocket. Already, Mr. Mueller’s investigation has led to 23 indictments, five guilty pleas and one prison sentence, several of which involve top Trump campaign officials, including Paul Manafort, Rick Gates, former Gen. Michael Flynn and Mr. Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen.

With the noose tightening around President Trump, it is clear the president wants a court that will protect him when he makes a legal move to free himself from prosecution. Judge Kavanaugh, who expressed his gratitude Monday night to the president for nominating him, would be President Trump’s ace in the hole.

Looking beyond President Trump’s troubles, Judge Kavanaugh has a record on the D.C. court that portends how he will give the nation’s highest court of nine justices a conservative majority that would roll back many of our current freedoms and rights, including a woman’s right to choose an abortion, same-sex marriage and gun control laws. One of his judicial opinions criticized the requirement that pre-existing medical conditions be covered under the Affordable Care Act. WithJudgeKavanaughontheSupremeCourt,theclockwouldbeturned back to the detriment of many on a wide range of critical issues.

The U.S. Senate, which will hold hearings on Judge Kavanaugh’s nomination, is responsible for confirming his appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court. Because of a Republican rule change, it will take only a 51-vote majority in the 100-member body to confirm the appointment. Republicans hold 51 seats, although GOP Sen. John McCain of Arizona is absent because of illness.

We call on Virginia Sens. Tim Kaine and Mark Warner, both Democrats, to delay confirmation hearings or any vote on Judge Kavanaugh’s nomination until after the November elections, when Democrats have an opportunity to gain a majority in the U.S. Senate and vote against his confirmation.

It’s time now for the Democrats to hone their strategies and mobilize to help protect the rights of Americans for the future. We knew with the unfortunate outcome of the 2016 presidential election that this day was coming. We knew that President Trump would have the opportunity to change the legal landscape of this nation for years to come with nominations to the U.S. Supreme Court.

This is not the time for people who believe in freedom, justice and equal opportunity to back down from a fight. We call on our readers to make their voices heard when it comes to this Supreme Court nominee.

What happens now will impact not only your life, but the lives of your children and grandchildren. We want a new Supreme Court justice who will take the country forward, not roll back the clock.

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Why Senate should hold up Supreme Court nomination “The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, selfappointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.”

– James Madison, Federalist 47, 1788 Article Two, Section 2, Clause 2 of the U.S. Constitution directs the president, “by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate,” to appoint judges of the Supreme Court.”

It doesn’t outline when or under what conditions the Senate may consent. It doesn’t say how many days from an Election Day or during months ending in Y or only when Venus is in retrograde.

The framers of the Constitution expected the duly elected and sworn members of the U.S. Senate to exercise their best judgment regarding lifetime appointments

to the nation’s highest court — not to play partisan games or to use it to score political points.

That the Senate failed those expectations miserably when it came to the nomination of

Marc H. Morial Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court in 2016 is hardly in dispute.

The nomination will stand and as one of the worst examples of dereliction of duty in the Senate’s history. Until, possibly, the one about to come before it.

The president of the United States is under investigation by a special counsel. His advisers have openly floated the possibility of him pardoning himself. The question of whether a sitting president can be indicted is vigorously debated in public. The legality and validity of summonses and subpoenas issued to the president are being challenged.

The Supreme Court will decide these issues, and the president must not be permitted to choose the justice who may cast the deciding

vote in his own case.

There’s no rule about that because the Senate is expected to exercise judgment in its duties.

Supreme Court nominations long have been seen and treated across the political spectrum as an opportunity for the president to advance his or her ideological agenda. Until Judge Garland’s nomination, this was accepted as a president’s prerogative. Liberals are bound to oppose a conservative appointee’s positions on the issues and vice versa. This nomination is far different.

Whether the president will appoint a justice who will almost certainly rule on issues affecting the president’s own case is hardly a partisan issue. But there are other solid reasons why the Senate should withhold consent to a Supreme Court appointment at this moment in history. The president has expressed a shocking and unprecedented demand that his appointees and those who serve in his administration pledge their loyalty to him — and not to the nation. Leaders of the Republican Party in the Senate

No more ‘wait your turn’ politics

I’ve never met Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a 28-year old New York activist, but I am surely looking forward to it. This giant-slayer of an organizer — she worked for U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders during the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination campaign — was outspent, but certainly not outworked, by her opponent, Congressman Joseph Crowley.

Rep. Crowley of New York had served in Congress for 10 terms and was the fourth highestranking Democrat in Congress, one who had openly coveted Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi’s position as House minority leader.

He spent $1.5 million in his first primary race since 2004, while Ms. Ocasio-Cortez spent just a fraction of that.

Ms. Ocasio-Cortez won the recent Democratic primary because, despite less money and less name recognition, she had a ground game that did not quit.

The day after her election, she told CNN that her team “knocked on doors that had never been knocked on, reaching voters who had been dismissed.” Lacking money for the television ads Rep. Crowley spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez used social media to get the word about her candidacy out.

She didn’t mind being sharply critical of Rep. Crowley, highlighting his disconnection from the New York district that includes parts of the Bronx and Queens, and focusing on the demographic mismatch between a 50-year-old-plus white man representing a district that is majority minority. Ms. OcasioCortez’s hard work paid off – she had more than 57 percent of the vote, hardly a nail-biter.

In some ways, Ms. OcasioCortez sounds something like Stacey Abrams of Georgia, the

Democratic powerhouse who made history when she became the first African-American woman to win a primary nomination for governor — and in the South at that. When Ms. Abrams first declared her candidacy, she was

Julianne Malveaux met with skepticism, especially from some in the Democratic Party establishment. But she had been registering some of the voters that the party had ignored, and if she can get about 100,000 more registered and voting, she has an excellent chance of being elected governor in November.

Unfortunately, the national Democratic Party and some state parties have done a poor job of dealing with the nation’s shifting demographics and with the demand from younger, browner and more focused voters to dispense with business as usual.

In Washington state, for example, Tirzah Idahosa is a candidate for state Senate. The union member, volunteer lobbyist, former correctional officer and foster parent is a founder of Democrats for Diversity and Inclusion and a precinct captain. In a primary race with another Democrat, she tells me that she was advised to “wait her turn” or to run for something “lesser” like the school board. Don’t these mainstream Democrats get that advising folks to “wait their turn” is what is turning so many away from the polls? Former President Barack Obama didn’t wait his turn when he was advised to and he beat Hillary Clinton soundly for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008 and out of turn!

Mainstream Democrats didn’t get the Bernie memo, but Sen. Sanders had a good night on June 25. Not only did he have the victory of Ms. Ocasio-Cortez to savor, but another of his acolytes, former national NAACP President Ben Jealous won the Democratic gubernatorial

nomination in Maryland. His opponent, Prince George’s County Executive Rushern Baker, was in many ways both the superior candidate and the one better poised to beat Republican incumbent Gov. Larry Hogan. But Mr. Jealous had the Bernie machine and the enthusiasm of younger people who saw Mr. Baker as “business as usual.”

In Boston, City Councilor Ayanna Pressley has challenged incumbent Democratic Congressman Mike Capuano for his seat. Rep. Capuano has used the power of his incumbency to persuade members of the Congressional Black Caucus, including civil rights icon Congressman John Lewis, to support him, a colleague, instead of Councilor Pressley. If some of the CBC representatives spent time with Ms. Pressley, they’d like her and wish they had someone with her passion as a colleague. But Rep. Capuano thinks his seniority — he has only been in office five years — should be persuasive and dismissed Ms. Pressley’s candidacy by telling the Boston Globe “if we decide to send junior people, good luck.”

His rank will yield his a key subcommittee chairmanship in Congress if Democrats can take back the U.S. House of Representatives. Or if Democrats win the House, it will put Ms. Pressley in line to be a committee chair just a few years from now.

Younger, more progressive Democrats like Ms. OcasioCortez and Ms. Pressley aren’t trying to “wait their turn.” They are trying to turn our country around. The Democratic Party ought to look at these candidacies as a second wake-up call.

The first happened when Sen. Sanders nearly beat Ms. Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination and lit a fire among young change agents that won’t be contained by the power of incumbency or the condescending rhetoric that folks should “wait their turn.”

The writer is an economist and author.

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have adopted that fealty, partly out of political cowardice.

There is almost no chance that a Supreme Court appointee by this president confirmed by this Senate can be expected to function as an independent check on presidential and congressional authority.

Again, this is not a partisan concern. Montesquieu, the political philosopher whose work influenced the founding fathers, wrote: “There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executive power.”

Faith in our political institutions is at a low point. The appointment of a Supreme Court justice under such a cloud can only serve to further erode it.

History will judge this Senate harshly if its leaders do not set aside crass partisan grasping and act in the best interest of the nation at this crucial junction.

The writer is president and chief executive officer of the National Urban League.

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Readers respond to Monument Avenue Commission recommendation No rejoicing in ‘Lost Cause’ Re “Davis must go: Commission recommends removing Confederate president’s statue, but not others,” Free Press July 5-7 edition: The recommendation of Mayor Levar M. Stoney’s Monument Avenue Commission to keep most of the Confederate statues in place was a foregone conclusion.

And the saddest part is our own people — my people — did this deed to their own people.

One day, the statues to white supremacy and a false “Lost Cause” will come down, and my ancestors and their allies will rejoice. But not today.

MICHAEL G. BROWN Richmond u

‘More important things to be concerned with’ History is very important. It shows the road that we, as a people, have traveled. It has not been easy. However, we have made advances.

I am black, grew up in Caribbean American communities in Southeastern Queens, N.Y., and attended Hampton University.

But I do not agree with the removal of any of the statutes on Monument Avenue.

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we should erect some for the historical figures we love, respect and appreciate. Maybe we should move to change the names of parks and streets in our community.

As a Libertarian, I have learned that you cannot walk around angry when you do not get your way, and that sometimes you have to get to the table in order to exchange ideas and points of view with others. The problem is when one group wants to force another group to do it “their” way.

I am also disappointed that the Richmond Free Press is calling for the removal of the Confederate statutes. I think there are more important things that we need to be concerned with such as the proper education of our youths, a healthy lifestyle for our people and safe, crimefree communities.

We need to be concerned with making Richmond a better place to live, work and raise a family. Fighting does not make that happen. We need to come together as one unit to work on improving our way of life.

COREY “SAGE” FAUCONIER Henrico County u

Commission blows its opportunity I have three quick thoughts about the Monument Avenue proposals.

First, all these assumptions that laws prevent us from moving the monuments are stupefying to me. The General Assembly statutes, born of racial intent, can be changed easily compared

to the mammoth legal chains overcome by our civil rights heroes. A conscientious Richmond City Council can devise a path to removal that is both bold and reasonable.

Second, beware the promise of grand new monuments to more deserving citizens of our community. Richmond does not act quickly. Not one private dime has been raised for the deserving “Devil’s Half-Acre” site. I suggest our focus be on a slave education site in Shockoe Bottom, funded at least at the levels of the new Institute for Contemporary Art or the American Civil War Museum.

Finally, the commission yielded to those who remain nostalgic about relics in a time when discrimination and violence against black citizens remains a daily occurrence, and, if you listen to the tenor of public dialogue — not to mention the oppressive policies — the “arc of the moral universe” is being severely tested.

Are we looking at the world around us?

This is not about saving history. History thrives. The commission, sensing that the majority of white central Virginians are not yet ready to deal with the Confederate legacies of slavery and apartheid — the poverty and unequal opportunities in our city — has stepped back from an opportunity to show real respect for our neighbors.

We are here to improve lives. But we must demarcate the truths upon which our futures will be built. Those Confederate military leaders, standing boldly in the center of our city, do not represent who we are or who we want to be.

BEN RAGSDALE Richmond

Time for ‘principle and bravery’ Re Column “Dems can stall another Scalia on High Court,” Free Press July 5-7 edition: I certainly hope that my fellow Democrats will follow Earl O. Hutchinson’s excellent advice and take the GOP Trumpsters to the mat on the nominee to take Justice Anthony Kennedy’s seat

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Clarion call to vote During former President Richard Nixon’s impeachment hearing, the late Congresswoman Barbara Jordan said the following: “My faith in the Constitution is whole, it is complete, it is total. I am not going to sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution.”

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NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC OF AN APPLICATION BY VIRGINIA ELECTRIC AND POWER COMPANY, FOR REVISION OF RATE ADJUSTMENT CLAUSE: RIDER S, VIRGINIA CITY HYBRID ENERGY CENTER CASE NO. PUR-2018-00086 •Virginia Electric and Power Company d/b/a Dominion Energy Virginia (“Dominion”) has applied for approval to revise its rate adjustment clause, Rider S. •Dominion requests a total revenue requirement of $219.966 million for its 2019 Rider S. •A Hearing Examiner appointed by the Commission will hear the case on December 5, 2018, at 10 a.m.

•Further information about this case is available on the State Corporation Commission’s website at: http://www.scc.virginia.gov/case.

On June 1, 2018, Virginia Electric and Power Company d/b/a Dominion Energy Virginia (“Dominion” or “Company”), pursuant to § 56-585.1 A 6 of the Code of Virginia (“Code”), filed with the State Corporation Commission (“Commission”) an annual update of the Company’s rate adjustment clause, Rider S (“Application”). Through its Application, the Company seeks to recover costs associated with the Virginia City Hybrid Energy Center (“VCHEC” or “Project”), a 600 megawatt nominal coal fueled generating plant and associated transmission interconnection facilities located in Wise County, Virginia.

In Case No. PUE-2007-00066, the Commission approved Dominion’s construction and operation of VCHEC and also approved a rate adjustment clause, designated Rider S, for Dominion to recover costs associated with the development of the Project. VCHEC became fully operational in 2012.

In this proceeding, Dominion has asked the Commission to approve Rider S for the rate year beginning April 1, 2019, and ending March 31, 2020 (“2019 Rate Year”). The two components of the proposed total revenue requirement for the 2019 Rate Year are the Projected Cost Recovery Factor and the Actual Cost True-Up Factor. The Company is requesting a Projected Cost Recovery Factor revenue requirement of $208,664,000 and an Actual Cost True-Up Factor revenue requirement of $11,302,000. Thus, the Company is requesting a total revenue requirement of $219,966,000 for service rendered during the 2019 Rate Year.

For purposes of calculating the Projected Cost Recovery Factor in this case, Dominion utilized a rate of return on common equity (“ROE”) of 10.2%, which comprises a general ROE of 9.2% approved by the Commission in its Final Order in Case No. PUR 2017-00038, plus a 100 basis point enhanced return applicable to a conventional coal generating station as described in Code § 56-585.1 A 6. For purposes of calculating the Actual Cost True-Up Factor, the Company utilized an ROE of 10.6% for the months of January 2017 through March 2017, which comprises the general ROE of 9.6% approved by the Commission in its Final Order in Case No. PUE-2015-00060, plus the 100 basis point enhanced return; an ROE of 10.4% for the period of April 1, 2017, through November 28, 2017, which comprises the general ROE of 9.4% approved by the Commission in its Order in Case No. PUE 2016-00062, plus the 100 basis point enhanced return; and an ROE of 10.2% for the period of November 29, 2017, through December 31, 2017, which comprises the general ROE of 9.2% approved by the Commission in its 2017 ROE Order, plus the 100 basis point enhanced return.

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If the proposed Rider S for the 2019 Rate Year is approved, the impact on customer bills would depend on the customer’s rate schedule and usage. According to Dominion, implementation of its proposed Rider S on April 1, 2019, would increase the bill of a residential customer using 1,000 kilowatt hours per month by approximately $0.18.

The Company proposes a change in the methodology for the calculation of a certain allocation factor beginning in 2018 to recognize the output of certain non-utility generators to be used to allocate cost responsibility to the Virginia jurisdiction. In addition, with the exception of the removal of certain Federal and retail choice customers from the Virginia Jurisdiction, the Company indicates it has calculated the proposed Rider S rates in accordance with the same methodology as used for rates approved by the Commission in the most recent Rider S proceeding, Case No. PUR-2017-00073.

Interested persons are encouraged to review the Application and supporting documents for the details of these and other proposals.

TAKE NOTICE that the Commission may apportion revenues among customer classes and/or design rates in a manner differing from that shown in the Application and supporting documents and thus may adopt rates that differ from those appearing in the Company’s Application and supporting documents.

The Commission entered an Order for Notice and Hearing that, among other things, scheduled a public hearing on December 5, 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 testimony from members of the public and evidence related to the Application from the Company, any respondents, and the Commission’s Staff. Any person desiring to testify as a public witness at this hearing should appear fifteen (15) minutes prior to the starting time of the hearing and contact the Commission’s Bailiff.

The public version of the Company’s Application, as well as the Commission’s Order for Notice and Hearing, are available for public inspection during regular business hours at each of the Company’s business offices in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Copies also may be obtained by submitting a written request to counsel for the Company, Lisa S. Booth, Esquire, Dominion Energy Services, Inc., 120 Tredegar Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219. If acceptable to the requesting party, the Company may provide the documents by electronic means.

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

On or before November 28, 2018, any interested person wishing to comment on the Company’s Application shall file written comments on the Application 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 November 28, 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-2018-00086.

On or before September 14, 2018, any person or entity wishing to participate as a respondent in this proceeding may do so by filing a notice of participation. If not filed electronically, an original and fifteen (15) copies of the notice of participation shall be submitted to the Clerk of the Commission at the address above. A copy of the notice of participation as a respondent also must be sent to counsel for the Company at the address set forth above. Pursuant to Rule 5 VAC 5-20-80 B, Participation as a respondent, of the Commission’s Rules of Practice and Procedure (“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. Any organization, corporation, or government body participating as a respondent must be represented by counsel as required by Rule 5 VAC 5-20-30, Counsel, of the Rules of Practice. All filings shall refer to Case No. PUR-2018-00086.

On or before October 19, 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, and each witness’s testimony shall include a summary not to exceed one page. 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 above. In all filings, respondents shall comply with the Commission’s Rules of Practice, including 5 VAC 5-20-140, Filing and service, and 5 VAC 5-20-240, Prepared testimony and exhibits. All filings shall refer to Case No. PUR 2018-00086.

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

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Sports Stories by Fred Jeter

Natalie Barnes now state long jump champ Virginia’s high school long jump champion has deep Richmond roots.

Natalie Barnes, a rising senior at Stone Bridge High in Ashburn, is the daughter of former Maggie Walker High and VCU basketball center Norman Barnes and Fran Barnes.

The 17-year-old Barnes flew 19 feet, 1¾ inches to win the State Division 5 long jump crown last month in Newport News.

She also excelled in hurdles and sprints and was named LoCo (Loudoun County) Track and Field Athlete of Year.

Since then, she has won the USA Track & Field Region 3 Junior Olympics with an 18-foot, 3-inch leap July 8 at Hampton University.

Barnes also finished second in 400 hurdles (1:02.5) in Hampton and ran a leg on the victorious 4 x 100 relay for MVP Track Club.

Next up for the 5-foot-11 athlete is the Junior

Olympics Nationals from July 23 through 29 in Greensboro, N.C. A straight-A student, she is being recruited by schools such as of Virginia, Virginia Tech, Nebraska and Miami (Fla.).

Standing 6-foot-8, father Norman Barnes played for Coach Pierce Callaham at Maggie Walker (Class of ’73) and at VCU under Coach Chuck Noe. Barnes, a Northern Virginia resident much of his adult life, averaged 6 points and 5 rebounds for the 1975-76 Rams in Coach Noe’s final season.

Between Walker (where he was second-team All Metro) and VCU, Barnes helped Western Texas College to the 1975 National Junior College title.

Daughter Natalie also played basketball at Stone Bridge through her sophomore season before opting to focus on track.

Family photo

State long jump champion Natalie Barnes shows off the sign delineating the distance she jumped — 19-1 — to claim the title for the Stone Bridge Bulldogs.

Davis trading nets in Portland for Brooklyn Richmond’s current homegrown NBA talent is on the move again, leaving broken hearts behind.

Much to the chagrin of former teammates, coaches, friends and fans in Portland, Ore., Ed Davis is headed for his fifth team, the Brooklyn Nets.

The 6-foot-10, just turned 29-year-old signed a one-year contract for $4.4 million with his new team coached by former University of Richmond guard Kenny Atkinson.

The July 3 news didn’t sit well in Portland.

On the sports page of The Oregonian, Trail Blazers Damian Lillard and C.J. McCollom posted emojis of a broken heart.

Lillard, an All-Star guard, had gone so far as to tell management he would “fight” to keep Davis in the Pacific Northwest.

Davis even said he hoped to play the remainder of his career and eventually “retire” in Portland.

Instead, he’s coming east with fiancée Kayla Head and infant twin sons Easton Ed Davis and Eagan.

Coming off the bench with a vengeance, Davis was a fan favorite with a blue-collar, selfless style of attacking the backboards and defending opposition behemoths. His physical style earned him the nickname “Phys-Ed.” The decision in Portland, while unpopular to many, including Coach Terry Stotts, was apparently influenced by the NBA’s salary cap and luxury cap regulations. Zach Collins, 20, Caled Swanigan, 21, and Meyers Leonard, 26, will compete to try and fill Davis’ void in Oregon.

Since Davis’ departure, Blazers starting center Jusuf Nurkic, 23, a 6-foot-11 Bosnian, has signed a four-year, $48 million deal.

In 2013, Davis signed a three-year contract worth $20 million, or about $6.7 million per season.

Blazers brass may have been in a foul mood and grasping for change after being eliminated in four straight by underdog New Orleans in the Western Conference first round.

Bacot says bye-bye to Trinity

Armando Bacot

The trend continues.

Armando Bacot becomes the third top-tier basketball prospect to leave a Richmond school this year.

The 6-foot-9 Bacot, who would have been a senior this year at Trinity Episcopal School in South Richmond, is transferring to IMG Academy in Bradenton, Fla. Earlier, 6-foot-10 Isaiah Todd announced he was leaving John Marshall High for Trinity Academy in Raleigh, N.C., and 6-foot-6 Gibson Jimerson left St. Christopher’s for Montverde Academy in Florida.

Bacot averaged 25 points and 12 rebounds this past season for Trinity and then made the USA U-18 team that won America’s Cup in Canada.

IMG, a boarding school, advertises that eight of its alumni have become NBA draftees since 2005. Most recent was Anferee Simons, the overall No. 24 pick last month by the Portland Trail Blazers.

Simons spent an extra season at IMG to become eligible for the NBA draft. He never played collegiately.

Bacot’s impressive list of suitors includes North Carolina, Duke, Kansas and Georgetown.

Seeking greener pastures afar, premier talents have been leaving Richmond in recent years.

Examples include Andrew White, who left Thomas Dale High for Miller School near Charlottesville; Devin Robinson, who bolted from Manchester High for Christchurch, Va.; and Curtis “CuJo” Jones, who left Highland Springs for Huntington Prep, W.Va.

While Davis thrives near the bucket, he isn’t an outside The short list of others with significant NBA credits are shooting threat, somewhat limiting a team’s ability to spread Bobby Dandridge (Maggie Walker High, 839 NBA games), the floor and create opportunities from a distance. Davis has Gerald Henderson (Huguenot High, 871 games) and Paul Pressey launched only two treys in his career.

(George Wythe High, 724 games).

Portland General Manager Neil Olshey said he was in on The son of Terry Davis and Angela Jones, Davis was Davis’ phone conversation with Brooklyn and actually “coun- born in Washington, D.C., but grew up in Mechanicsville seled” his player to take the Nets’ offer. in Eastern Hanover County. He excelled at Hanover High On the surface, Davis is going to a worse team (Portland was before transferring to Benedictine and pacing the Cadets to 49-33; Brooklyn, 28-54) for less money. back-to-back Virginia Independent Of course that could, and likely will, Schools titles.

Ed Davis’ NBA travels change with future negotiations.

Among the nation’s most heavily Davis appears to have plenty of fruitful recruited talents, Davis signed with the Toronto Raptors, 2010-13 seasons left in his powerful 240-pound University of North Carolina and helped Memphis Grizzlies, 2013-14 frame. the Tarheels win the 2009 NCAA crown Los Angeles Lakers, 2014-15 This past season was among his as a freshman.

Portland Trail Blazers, 2015-18 finest as he averaged 5.3 points and In 2010, following his sophomore Brooklyn Nets, Current 7.4 rebounds in just 18.9 minutes per, season at UNC, he was the 13th overall Ed Davis’ NBA numbers helping the Blazers to the playoffs. His pick by Toronto in the NBA draft. rebounding efficiency ranks among the Despite solid contributions and impecGames: 559 (94 starts) NBA elite. cable character, he’s become something Points: 3,692 (6.6 game average) With Brooklyn, Davis figures to back of a journeyman now with five teams in Rebounds: 3,638 (6.5 average) up 2017 No. 1 draft pick Jarrett Allen nine seasons.

Blocked shots: 502 (0.9 average) out of Texas, who averaged 8.2 points Phys-Ed’s nomadic career hasn’t been Shooting percentage: 56.4 and 5.4 boards as rookie. due to lack play or hustle, and certainly Free throw percentage: 57.9 Davis is in the conversation among not lack of heart. While Brooklyn cel3-point percentage: .000 (0-for-2) the area’s all-time talents from Richmond ebrates the arrival of a classic low post Minutes: 11,507 (20.6 average) high schools. warrior, Portland grieves.

Hampton’s big move to Big South Breaking up is hard to do.

In the midst of a conference transition, Hampton University’s 2018 football schedule bares slim resemblance to those from the previous 100-plus years.

The Pirates are moving this school year to the Big South Conference after being aligned with the historically black CIAA from 1912 to 1995 and MEAC from 1996 to 2018.

Hampton becomes the Big South’s lone historically black affiliate. The Big South is a member of the NCAA Football Championship Subdivision (FCS), as is MEAC. HU is clearly feeling short-term pain for what officials hope will be long-term gain.

The fallout: Feeling jilted, all of HU’s former MEAC opponents have severed ties, including archrival Norfolk State.

Also, in joining the Big South last November, there wasn’t time to form a full Big South football schedule for 2018.

Among this fall’s foes, only Monmouth (N.J.), Charleston Southern and Presbyterian (S.C.) are Big South members.

Pirates sailing new seas Sept. 1: Shaw University, 6 p.m.* Sept. 8: at Monmouth, N.J., 3 p.m.

Sept. 15: Tennessee State, 6 p.m.

Sept. 22: at Northern Iowa, TBD Sept. 29: Charleston Southern, 2 p.m.

Oct. 6: Lane College, 2 p.m.

Oct. 13: at Presbyterian, TBD Oct. 27: Virginia University of Lynchburg, 2 p.m. Homecoming Nov. 3: at SUNY-Maritime, N.Y., 1 p.m.

Nov. 10: at Mississippi Valley State, TBD Nov. 17: St. Andrew’s, 1 p.m. * Home games in bold

The Pirates plan to play a full Big South schedule in 2019.

This leaves HU with a mismatch 11game schedule that may cause longtime Pirates fans to shake their heads.

In a prepared statement, here is what HU President Dr. William R. Harvey said of the unusual schedule: “Despite the opposition from certain quarters, it’s with great pleasure we announce the 2018 football schedule. We appreciate the patience of fans and the assistance of many people to get a schedule for this fall.”

The closest traditional foe is CIAA member Shaw University, the seasonopening opponent at Armstrong Stadium.

The Pirates are 24-9-2 overall against the Bears but they haven’t met since 1978.

Other historically black foes are Tennessee State of the FCS Ohio Valley Conference, Lane College of Division II SIAC, Virginia University of Lynchburg

of the National Christian College Athletic Association and Mississippi Valley of the FCS Southwestern Athletic Conference.

Tennessee State boasts two NFL Hall of Famers, Richard Dent and Claude Humphrey, while Mississippi Valley (formerly Mississippi Vocational) is the alma mater of Hall of Famers Jerry Rice and Deacon Jones.

The host Pirates figure to be the heavy favorite for a homecoming victory Oct. 27 against VUL (formerly Virginia Seminary).

The Dragons were 0-7 last season against four-year schools while being outscored 372-33.

The Pirates’ suitcases will be put to good use with games in eight different states.

In their final season of MEAC play, the Pirates were 6-5 overall and 5-3 in the conference under Coach Robert Prunty.

Hampton dates its gridiron history to 1902 with a 16-0 victory over Armstrong Manual Training.

O’Quinn taking his talents to the Indiana Pacers Kyle O’Quinn, the last player from NBA pick of the Orlando Magic later that an HBCU to be drafted into the NBA, is spring. O’Quinn played with the Magic changing his low-post address. from 2012 to 2015, then with the Knicks The 6-foot-10 former Norfolk State from 2015 to 2018.

University center has left the New York Athletes from historically black schools Knicks (his hometown team) have become an endangered speafter three seasons to join the cies in the NBA. The short list of Indiana Pacers. current NBA players with HBCU O’Quinn, who averaged 7.1 pedigrees includes O’Quinn and points off the bench this past current Philadelphia 76er Robert season for the Knicks, has reCovington, undrafted coming out portedly signed a one-year deal of Tennessee State in 2013. worth $4.5 million.

Among the highest drafted A native of Jamaica, N.Y., players ever from HBCU ranks O’Quinn rose to prominence in was Virginia Union’s Charles 2012 leading NSU to a stunning Oakley, taken ninth overall by Kyle O’Quinn NCAA tournament upset over Cleveland in 1985.

Missouri, then singing a few bars of “One Winston-Salem State’s Earl Monroe Shining Moment” in his postgame CBS was the second overall pick in 1967 by television interview. the Baltimore Bullets. Prairie View A&M’s O’Quinn, MEAC Player of Year as Zelmo Beaty was the third overall pick in an NSU senior, became the 49th overall 1962 by St. Louis.

Stephen Silva, former VCU-VUU point guard, dies

Stephen Silva

Former Virginia Commonwealth University and Virginia Union University basketball point guard Stephen Silva died Tuesday, July 10, 2018, in his hometown of Brooklyn, N.Y. Mr. Silva had been suffering from cancer the past year.

Known as “Silky Smooth” for his stylish ball handling, Mr. Silva grew up in Brooklyn but transferred during high school to Oak Hill Academy in Mouth of Wilson, Va. From Oak Hill, he signed with former VCU Coach

J.D. Barnett in 1981 with another native of the New York City area, Calvin Duncan.

After one season at VCU, Mr. Silva transferred to Virginia Union University, where he had two solid seasons under Coach Dave Robbins in 1983-84 and 1984-85. He averaged eight points and three rebounds per game as a junior and five points and three rebounds during his senior year.

He was a key member of the 1984-85 squad that featured Charles Oakley, had a 31-1 record and was ranked No.

1 much of the season. VUU won the CIAA Tournament and advanced to the NCAA Tournament both seasons that Mr. Silva played for the Panthers.

Mr. Silva continued playing in adult basketball leagues and tournaments around New York until becoming ill last year. He attended the VUU homecoming during the fall and played in the VUU Legends Alumni Game at Barco-Stevens Hall.

Survivors include his wife, Migdalia Mojica-Silva.

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Personality: Ron J. Melancon Spotlight on founder of Dangerous Trailers, a safety advocacy organization Ron J. Melancon is a passionate voice and advocate for safety and saving lives across the United States and in Europe.

In 2003, he founded Dangerous Trailers, a grassroots organization to develop and promote uniform standards and inspection laws nationwide for trailers towed by motor vehicles, including utility trailers, horse trailers, recreational travel trailers and van trailers.

Presently, only trailers over 3,000 pounds fall within federal guidelines, which require reflectors at the rear of the trailer.

Inadequate reflectors are only one of the hazards, Mr. Melancon points out, noting that faulty or no safety chains between the trailer and the car or truck pulling it can cause accidents. And dragging safety chains can spark costly and life-threatening wildfires, he says.

That’s where Dangerous Trailers comes in — to “draw attention to the potential dangers of unsafe trailers on roadways,” Mr. Melancon says.

His one-man operation collects data on accidents and fatalities caused by unsafe trailers and he pushes it out on the internet to help people change laws in their home states and in other countries.

Already, his crusade has achieved victories in Virginia.

Through his efforts and those of his legislative sponsors, the General Assembly passed laws in 2004 and 2010 requiring all trailers to use reflectors or reflective tape and to have a locking device that prevents accidental separation of the trailer from the vehicle.

“In America, more than 500 people a year are killed and more than 35,000 are injured by a passenger vehicle towing a trailer,” he says. That includes 20 children and adults who will become victims on unsafe hayrides and parade floats, he continues. “This is all preventable.”

He says Dangerous Trailers’ public awareness efforts have led to changes in trailer laws in Alabama and Tennessee and new laws regarding hayride safety in Maine.

“We have inspired the country of Ireland,” he says, “as now you must have a license to tow a trailer.” England also has established towing standards, he says.

“It is very important that voices join together across the world. Those voices are more powerful in our effort to save lives and pass legislation to stop people from getting killed due to unregulated use of trailers.”

Mr. Melancon’s efforts started in May 2003 after he rear-ended a low-slung, empty, steel-mesh trailer being towed by a truck.

After apologizing to the truck driver and learning the damage “was not that bad,” he took photos that showed the trailer’s rear lights weren’t operational.

The case against him was dismissed in court, he says. But he asked the judge what would happen to prevent others from meeting a more harmful fate with unsafe trailers.

“He replied, ‘I commend your effort. Keep me updated.’”

After witnessing a loose trailer accident on Richmond’s

South Side in which a woman was killed, Mr. Melancon took further steps to research and investigate such incidents.

Fixes can be inexpensive, he says.

“It only takes an $8 reflector tape to make a safety improvement to the back of a trailer,” he notes.

Meet safety advocate and this week’s Personality, Ron J. Melancon: Occupation: Clothing haberdasher.

Place of birth: Houston, Texas.

Current residence: Glen Allen.

Education: Regents Diploma NYS, CPCU, Certified EMT-D, Various College Courses.

Family: Wife, Dawn; son, Zachary, 19; and daughter, Megan, 13.

Why I founded Danger-

ous Trailers: A trailerrelated accident in 2003 motivated me to start a grassroots movement to promote uniform laws and standards involving trailers.

Mission of organization: To educate and develop a nationwide standard for utility trailers. In Virginia, the state code is silent as to any design or construction specifications for trailers just one pound under 3,000 pounds for these vehicles or for towing chains and hitches.

Number of members: Thousands worldwide, along with almost 3 million views of our information on our YouTube channel.

Top success for Dangerous Trailers: Having former Gov. Mark R. Warner sign HB 429 into law in 2004, and former Gov. Bob McDonnell sign SB 646 into law in 2010.

Biggest achievement: Getting the first license plate in the nation to be approved that has an American flag on it. Since the bill was signed into law in 2002 by former Gov. Mark R. Warner, more than 16,000 American flag licenses plates are on Virginia vehicles, producing a yearly revenue stream to the state of $160,000.

Where I get information about unsafe trailers: More than 15 years ago, I developed search engines with key words in Google to alert me when anything involving a horse trailer, boat trailer or utility trailer is reported anywhere in the world.

I wanted to be the expert and the most self-educated.

Response of federal, state and local governments to information: As typical, government and changing laws is a slow process, which I refer to as the hamster wheel. They encourage us to say something and do something, yet the special interest groups who do not want to admit their products are faulty have endless recourses to obstruct our efforts. Governments seem to have no interest in preventing the senseless mayhem and death caused by unsafe trailers.

Response of public to information: Outrage and disbelief about the number of lives lost in unsafe trailer accidents. They also wonder how we continue to do what we do.

What needs to be done: A national discussion with stakeholders to develop a national baseline requiring that all trailers meet a basic safety standard when used on any public roadway. We also seek development of a chapter in states’ driver’s manuals on how to tow trailers safely.

What the public can do: Right now, I need people to add their voices to the conversation. Connect with me through YouTube, Twitter and Facebook. Add your voice to the cause.

A perfect day for me is: I am always moving forward toward the wall (goal) knowing that nothing is perfect because the wall is always moving. But we takes steps to get closer.

Something I love to do that most people would never imagine: Listen to old school music.

A quote that I am inspired by: I have two that equally inspire me — “I will prepare and someday my chance will come,” by Abraham Lincoln and “Never give in. Never, never, never, never in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense,” by Winston Churchill.

How I unwind: Sitting by the steps outside at work and closing my eyes and simply listening to the sounds of life all around me.

The person who influenced me the most: My mother who was the victim of abuse who took the pain and suffering in order to raise us. I was the oldest and she instilled in me that life is not always fair but you never give up hope and made me promise you don’t hit or abuse.

Book that influenced me the most: “Lord of the Flies” by William Golding.

What I’m reading now: “Unsafe at Any Speed” by Ralph Nader.

If I’ve learned one thing in life it is: Beware of people who talk the talk but do not walk the walk.

My next goal: To fully implement www.penniesforplaygrounds.org as a national effort to rebuild playgrounds; finish my book, “Utility Trailers Unsafe at Any Speed;” help solve an unsolved death in Virginia of a woman by a loose trailer; and to develop a special state license plate for the Virginia War Memorial to increase awareness and tourism to Richmond.

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Buses are arriving more frequently on many routes. Connections are easier.

Bus route names are simplified. And at the same time, we’ve launched the new Pulse route, with service from Willow Lawn to Rocketts Landing (and many places in between.)

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‘Souls Grown Deep’ exhibition highlights VMFA acquisition of African-American works

By Samantha Willis

The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts invites Richmond area residents to view 34 pieces of work by black artists and reflect on cultural contributions by AfricanAmericans in a first-ofits-kind exhibition under the purview of Valerie Cassel Oliver.

Ms. Oliver, the Sydney and Frances Lewis Family Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the museum since July 2017, was responsible for the purchase of the pieces from the Atlanta-

Photo by Steve Pitkin/Pitkin Studio © Estate of Thornton Dial/Artist Rights Society

based Souls Grown Deep Foundation, an The special exhibition will organization that describes its mission as run through Nov. 17. “documenting, preserving and promotThe Souls Grown Deep Founing the contributions of artists from the dation was founded in 2014, African-American South, and the cultural and includes in excess of 1,100 traditions in which they are rooted.” works by more than 160 AfricanMs. Oliver hopes the showing will American artists. A line in a 1921 expand the long-standing, exclusionary Langston Hughes poem inspired notions of what is — and what is not the foundation’s name: “My soul — modern art. has grown deep like the rivers.”

“The decision was mine to collect The VMFA joins institutions these works, in part, because it complilike The Metropolitan Museum ments works in the collection as well of Art, the Philadelphia Museum as provides another dimension to the of Art and the High Museum of art-making practices of black artists,” Art in Atlanta in acquiring art said Ms. Oliver, who spent 16 years at through a gift-purchase program the Contemporary Arts Museum Housfrom the foundation’s vast colPhoto by Dan Jurgens © Estate of Purvis Young/Artist Rights Society ton before joining the VMFA. lection.

“Untitled book page” by Purvis Young, 1983, ballpoint pen, marker “I also wanted to assert another origin and paint on paper. Left, “Foundation of the World (A Dream of Ms. Oliver was a member for modernism beyond Europe — that My Mother)” by Thornton Dial, 1994, welded steel rods, tin, rope, of the foundation’s board of of the American South as expressed in carpet, rope fiber, wood, burlap, enamel, spray paint and industrial trustees before coming to the sealing compound. the work of black artists.”

VMFA, and continues her work Included in the special “Souls Grown “The women of Gee’s Bend are legendary,” with the group “to bring recognition for these Deep” exhibition are drawings, paintings and Ms. Oliver said. “Their artistic creations show artists of the American South as not simply assemblage sculptures by Thornton Dial, the depth of aesthetic traditions that reach back an outsider or self-taught artists, but as iconic Lonnie Holley, Ronald Lockett, Jimmy Lee hundreds of years.”

American treasures,” said Ms. Oliver.

Sudduth, Mose Toliver, Jesse Aaron, James In addition to her efforts behind the VMFA’s The Gee’s Bend Quilts were woven by up “Son Ford” Thomas and Purvis Young. to four generations of the Bendolph, Bennett “Souls Grown Deep” acquisition, Ms. Oliver is Ms. Oliver said the museum already owned and Pettway families, who all share ancestry preparing her debut exhibition at the museum. The two pieces by the Alabama-born Mr. Dial before of enslaved people at Pettway Plantation. To Ms. showing, “What Remains to Be Seen,” spans the this acquisition. The recently added sculptures Oliver, the quilts are more than coverings.

50-year career of Howardena Pindell, an Africanand paintings give the VMFA “a strong range “My intention in having these works at the American artist and Philadelphia native. of (his) works,” she said.

Opening Aug. 25, it will be the first major VMFA is that now we can expand the narrative Textile pieces enhance the exhibition, with of modernism into the American South, using survey of Ms. Pindell’s work, which includes quilts made by African-American women living these quilts as frameworks for that assertion,” drawings, paintings, photography, film and in Gee’s Bend, Ala. performance art.

Ms. Oliver said.

Maggie Walker birthday celebrations set for Saturday The National Park Service and the City of Richmond are hosting celebrations Saturday, July 14, honoring the 154th birthday of Richmond icon and businesswoman Maggie L. Walker.

The park service celebration will take place 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Maggie L. Walker National Historic Site, 600 N. 2nd St., which includes the Jackson Ward house where Mrs. Walker lived until her death in 1934.

Highlights at the site will include tours of Mrs.

including Mrs. Walker’s great-great-granddaughter, Faith Elizabeth Walker Mickens, Richmond Mayor Levar M. Stoney and representatives of the Maggie L. Walker Alumni Association.

Entertainment at the site will include music by Glenroy Bailey, a youth boxing exhibition, inflatables for children and refreshments.

Both celebrations are free and open to the public.

Details: Maggie Walker National Historic Site, (804) 771-2017.

Walker’s home and a Common Good Fair featuring a variety of children’s activities and community engagement groups. A recognition ceremony will be held at 11:30 a.m. honoring the Maggie L. Walker Summer Youth Leadership Institute Class of 2018.

Music and refreshments will follow.

The City of Richmond’s celebration will be noon to 4 p.m. at the site of the Maggie Walker statue at Broad and Adams streets Downtown.

An array of speakers will offer remarks at 1 p.m.,

Black History Museum offers free music video class for students

Stand by … lights … camera … action!

Middle and high school students can help create a music video during a six-week session at the Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia.

“Kidz@122: Connecting History” is free to students, with the music video to be based on African-American historical figures, exhibitions at the museum and the historical influences of the Jackson Ward neighborhood.

The sessions will be held from 5:30 to 7 p.m. each Tuesday at the museum, 122 W. Leigh St., beginning Tuesday, July 17, and running through Tuesday, Aug. 21.

Instructors from Life’s Interpretation and J. Hunt Visuals will help students write their scripts, film at Jackson Ward locations and edit their videos, which will be on display at the museum.

Participants must have parental consent, reliable transportation and commit to attend all six sessions. No prior experience is necessary and video equipment will be provided.

Applications are available on the museum’s website, www. blackhistorymuseum.org, and must be submitted by 5 p.m.

Monday, July 16.

Details: Adele Johnson, museum executive director, at ajohson@blackhistorymuseum.org or (804) 780-9093.

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About 1,200 people enjoy the pop-up Dîner en Blanc event last Saturday at the Virginia Museum of History and Culture on the Boulevard. Participants, who dress in white, must bring their own table, chairs and food to a designated point, where they are transported to a secret location for dinner and music.

The event began about 30 years ago in France and is held annually in cities across the globe. This was the second such event held in Richmond.

Trademark Band celebrates 25th anniversary with Dogwood Dell performance July 15

In 1993, James Carson Jr. brought a musical revue of ’60s and ’70s music to the Dogwood Dell stage as part of the annual summer Festival of Arts.

Twenty-five years later, he’s returning to the same stage to showcase the Trademark Band he created after that production.

The band will perform 8 p.m. Sunday, July 15, at the Dogwood Dell amphitheater in Byrd Park in a free show to mark its silver anniversary. The performance is part of this year’s Festival of Arts sponsored by the city’s Department of Parks, Recreation and Community Facilities.

Mr. Carson said he loved that original show so much, “I asked six people from the show if they would like to form a band, and Trademark was born. Twenty-five years later, we’re still going strong.”

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The band appears at many community events and private affairs and performs a wide range of musical genres, from Motown and disco to R&B, pop, rock, contemporary, swing and jazz.

“We try to offer something for everyone,”

said Mr. Carson, who plays the drums.

His wife, Kathy Carson, joins Calvin Dugger and Kevin Ervin as the lead singers. Milton Gross is on the keyboards, Stan Scott plays guitar and Garry Tucker performs on the bass.

Henry L. Marsh III book signing July 21 at Black History Museum Civil rights attorney Henry L. Marsh III will talk and sign copies of his book, “The Memoirs of Hon. Henry L. Marsh III,” 2 p.m. Saturday, July 21, at the Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia, 122 W. Leigh St. The event is part of the museum’s Literary Saturday presentations.

Mr. Marsh served as the first AfricanMr. Marsh American mayor of Richmond from 1977 to 1982 before being elected to the state Senate in 1991. He served in the Senate for 22 years until 2014, when he was named by former Gov. Terry McAuliffe to the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Commission. He retired earlier this year.

As an attorney, he was instrumental in many of the legal cases battling public school segregation, racial discrimination in employment and voting rights cases.

“We really need to take advantage of our history makers while they are with us,” said Adele Johnson, executive director of the museum. “It is great to hear the stories by the man that made the stories.

“Everyone needs to read this book because we don’t know this kind of history,” she continued. “We don’t know the inside stories. That’s what we are always looking for at the museum — the story behind the story.”

Admission is free, but registration is requested by contacting the museum at (804) 780-9093.

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accidentally knocked over a chalice, angering CHARLOTTE HALL, Md. the Rev. Michael Briese.

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Wash“That’s when all hell broke loose,” Mrs. ington has apologized for a white priest kicking Hicks’ daughter Shanice Chisely, told Fox 5 DC. an African-American family out of their loved “He literally got on the mic and said, ‘There one’s funeral. will be no funeral, there will be no The June 26 incident, which visibly Mass … Everyone get the hell out of upset the family of the late Agnes my church.’

Hicks, 54, blew up social media with “He was disrespectful,” Ms. Chisely the hashtag #MourningWhileBlack. said. “He disrespected my family and “What occurred at St. Mary’s Parmy mother. He called my mother a ish this morning does not reflect the ‘thing.’ He said, ‘Get this thing out Catholic Church’s fundamental calling of my church. Everyone get the hell to respect and uplift the God-given out of my church.’ dignity of every person nor does that “I have never seen anything like incident represent the pastoral apthat before,” she said.

Rev. Briese proach the priests of the Archdiocese Davon Chisely, Mrs. Hicks’son, also of Washington commit to undertake every day in told the news station he was “traumatized.” their ministry,” according to the statement.

Mrs. Hicks reportedly had been baptized at Hundreds of people had gathered at St. the church as a child.

Mary’s Catholic Church in Charlotte Hall, Shortly after the priest’s eruption, the famMd., for the funeral of Mrs. Hicks. But be- ily carried the casket from the church where fore the Mass could begin, someone reached police, who Rev. Briese reportedly had called, over the open casket to hug Mrs. Hicks and were waiting.

Officers maintained the family did not break the law and took them to a funeral home.

Since then, Rev. Briese apologized in a letter to the editor published in The Enterprise newspaper, saying anger “was the most inappropriate response.”

Theo Johnson, a cousin of Mrs. Hicks, told The Enterprise newspaper that Rev. Briese tried to explain he wasn’t racist.

But Mr. Johnson said, “Nobody said anything

about race. We were just saying he was being disrespectful.”

But the incident drew a large number of critics on social media, who blasted the priest and the church for what was viewed as the latest in a series of racist attacks in which white people call police on African-Americans for selling water, barbecuing in the park, waiting in a coffee shop for friends or swimming in their neighborhood pool.

Followers pool together for convention Below, thousands of Jehovah’s Witnesses gather at the Greater Richmond Convention Center in Downtown for last weekend’s convention. Religious followers from Virginia, North Carolina, Maryland, Washington and Delaware have been attending the series of three-day conventions in Richmond that will run each weekend through Aug. 5. The theme: “Be Courageous!” Left, Ron Willis, center, is baptized by Chris Bertal, left, and Rich Barber during last Saturday’s session when 29 people were baptized.

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Celebrating 150 years The full choir of St. John Baptist Church lifts its voice to mark the North Side church’s 150th anniversary. The June 16 event in the sanctuary at 4317 North Ave. featured a reunion of past and present members of the music ministry, according to Dr. Janet K. Copeland, the church’s minister of music.

Guest preacher says he was stiffed by South Side church

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The Rev. Ernest Blue Jr. shows the umbrella and baseball cap he received from Morning Star Baptist Church’s pastor after preaching a guest sermon on July 1.

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The Rev. Ernest Blue Jr. of Richmond is often called to be a guest preacher.

A retired city schoolteacher and associate minister at Triumphant Baptist Church in North Side, Rev. Blue said he’s at a different church almost every weekend delivering a sermon in place of the pastor.

And until July 1, he always has received an honorarium of $100.

“Until now, it was done without exception,” said Rev. Blue, 71, who estimates that he has been a guest preacher several thousand times during his 50 years as a minister.

“As soon as I’m done, someone hands me an envelope.

No one talks about it. It’s just

Rev. Blue: “I don’t have any expected,” he said.

But that didn’t happen when money to pay you,” Rev. Blue he preached at the 10 a.m. ser- recounted.

Rev. Blue said Rev. Brown vice at Morning Star Baptist Church on the first Sunday in then presented him with a Morning Star baseball cap July. Ironically, his and an umbrella as topic was “Everycompensation. Afthing that looks good ter doing so, Rev. to you ain’t good for Brown followed up you.” by asking Rev. Blue He said the pastor to come back and of the South Side preach at several church, Rev. Tyrell other services.

O. Brown, texted Rev. Blue said he and called him on Rev. Brown turned down the offer.

June 30 to come Rev. Brown has not reand deliver the sermon. Rev. Brown attended the service, sponded to several Free Press but turned the sermon over to requests for comment.

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After the service ended, Rev. Blue said Rev. Brown asked him to come to his office where he delivered the bad news to

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“I had heard rumors that others who had been guest preachers did not receive any pay, but I didn’t pay attention,” Rev. Blue said. “Now I know it’s true.”

He said he decided to speak out so that other ministers could avoid making the same mistake he did of expecting an honorarium and not receiving it.

“I don’t think it’s right for a church leader to do this to fellow ministers,” Rev. Blue said. “Other ministers need to know.”

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Community booster Linda D. Myrick dies Linda Diane Myrick was a vibrant, determined woman who found joy in helping her family and others get the most out of life.

And that’s how she wished to go out. So before her death, the 60-year-old Richmond area resident dreamed up a unique way for people to remember her.

Instead of a mournful funeral, Ms. Myrick directed her family to throw a community cookout — and that is just what they are preparing to do following her death on Friday, June 29, 2018, from cancer.

The cookout, at 5 p.m.

Thursday, July 12, will be held in Chester at 4412 Centralia Road, the historic home of First Baptist Church of Centralia.

“No suits, no ties, just come and have an old-fashioned good time,” said her son, Renard T. “Bridge” Diggs Jr. of Chester, a federal law enforcement officer and founding apostle of the Body of Christ in Fellowship where his mother was a shepherd.

“That’s what she wanted,” he said.

“This represents her,” said her daughter, Dionna L. Diggs, a senior manager with Virginia Premier.

“She was always about making everyone happy,” said Ms. Diggs.

A native of San Francisco and graduate of Thomas Dale High School in Chesterfield County, Ms. Myrick worked as a 7-Eleven store manager and was well known as a crew leader and

manager of the Hardee’s in the drum major and also played 4800 block of Jefferson Davis the tuba and saxophone. Ms. Highway. Customers found Diggs played saxophone in the her welcoming and employees band, as did a younger sister, appreciated her willingness to LeAndra D. Chappelle, now of look out for their well-being, Fort Campbell, Ky. though she never departed from Two younger daughters, the standards that the fast food Melynda Myrick and Maya operation demanded, Mr. Diggs Myrick, both of Chester, played said. in the school She may orchestra, have been best with Melynda known for her playing cello volunteer work and bass and at Huguenot Maya playing High School, violin. from which The band four of her became Ms. five children Myrick’s pasgraduated. Her sion. During youngest gradthe football uated from a season, “she Ms. Myrick Chesterfield was always in high school after attending the stands dancing with others Huguenot. at halftime to the music we “If you went to Huguenot played,” Mr. Diggs said. between 1993 and 1997, you She also was a leader with knew Renard and Dee Dee’s other parents in raising money mom. She was our PTA presi- for the band and coordinating dent, band booster all-star and the band’s trips to competitions just all around supportive par- and parades in New Orleans, ent to all students,” said Amy St. Louis, Canada and Florida, Wentz, who has fond memories Ms. Wentz recalled. Ms. Myrick of Ms. Myrick. “She helped also marched alongside the make my experience such a band in the Christmas Parade good one.” and other community parades, “She was everyone’s moth- Ms. Wentz said. er,” Mr. Diggs said. “She was Ms. Myrick went on to serve at the school all the time. She from 1998 to 2000 as presilooked out for us, but also for dent of the former Richmond every other student” in her work Council of the Parent-Teacher/ for the PTA. That is reflected in Parent-Teacher-Student Assothe Facebook posts from former ciation. In a 1998 Free Press students since her death.

Personality feature, she exAll of her children played plained her interest by saying musical instruments. Mr. Diggs that “parents can make a big became the Huguenot band’s difference in the education of

children.”

Another example of Ms. Myrick’s philosophy of life played out the same weekend she died.

Despite dealing with terminal cancer, she arranged an all-expense-paid appreciation event for 100 women at the Hilton Garden Inn-Richmond Airport, including her four daughters, nurses and others she met at the VCU Massey Cancer Center and even some strangers, Ms. Diggs said.

Ms. Myrick spent nearly $30,000 to make it happen.

“She wouldn’t allow us to cancel because she was sick,” Ms. Diggs said.

Her children made sure it went on even though she died as her invitees began checking in for the three-day, two-night affair.

“The women got manicures and massages, a banquet, and they even took glamour shots,” Ms. Diggs said. “The idea was to provide a relaxing weekend for women who are always taking care of other people. It was designed to allow them to pause and take a moment to appreciate themselves.”

A single mother, Ms. Myrick moved to the Richmond area after her father, John D. Clark Jr., a civilian employee of the Defense Department, was reassigned from the West Coast to Fort Lee near Petersburg. Ms. Myrick said later she hated moving during her senior year in high school.

She finished her senior year at Thomas Dale High School,

Lucia Ferray-Robinson, co-founder of Africa Awareness Association, dies at 54

A 23-year link between Cuba and Richmond has been broken with the death of Lucia Arocha Ferray-Robinson, 54, at her residence in Havana on Sunday, July 1, 2018.

Ms. Ferray-Robinson was the wife of Lee C. Robinson of Richmond.

Together, the Robinsons offered annual tours of the island nation located 90 miles off the coast of Florida.

The tours are a main element of the work of the Africa Awareness Association, which the Robinsons co-founded to raise awareness and educate people about Cuba. The organization is an affiliate of the national Network on Cuba based in Oakland, Calif., which also relied on Ms. Ferray-Robinson to assist American visitors to the island.

Mr. Robinson, who also is a Richmond

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middle school teacher, said he met his future wife during his second trip to Cuba in 1995 when they came up with the idea of offering tours.

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arrangements, said Mr. Robinson.

The couple married in 2016.

When they began, the American embargo on travel to Cuba was still very much in force. Travelers from the United States had to enter Cuba via Canada or Mexico first, Mr. Robinson said.

He said he plans to continue offering the annual tours to Cuba, but “it will be different because she will no longer be there.”

Along with her work with tours, Ms. Ferray-Robinson also was a physical education teacher and volleyball coach in Cuba.

She was a member of the Communist Party of Cuba and was a past president of her neighborhood’s Committee in Defense of the Revolution.

Survivors include her twin daughters, Leisy Ruiz Arocha and Lesly Ruiz Arocha.

but lived much of her adult life in Richmond with her children.

Despite her own illness, she moved to Midlothian after her mother’s death in January 2017 to take care of her father.

“That’s the kind of person she was,” Mr. Diggs said.

During her cancer treatment, she made her presence felt at the VCU Massey Cancer Center.

She would minister to other people, and she also looked out for the staff, many of whom would stop by to see her and get a word of encouragement, Mr. Diggs said.

“She enjoyed crafts and would pass out appreciation gifts to everyone — from the parking staff to the nurses, doctors and radiology team,” he said. “Her specialty was making pins decorated with flowers or butterflies.”

Ms. Diggs said that her mother, whom she described as a “strong, determined woman,” was still making craft items the day before she died.

“She lived life to the fullest,” Mr. Diggs said.

Ms. Myrick also was active in the Amazing Grace World Fellowship Church before leaving earlier this year to join Mr. Diggs to support his fledgling Body of Christ in Fellowship ministry.

In addition to her children and father, Ms. Myrick is survived by 14 grandchildren.

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644-0496 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, July 23, 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 ordinance: Ordinance No. 2018-198 To authorize the Chief Administrative Officer to submit a Consolidated Plan and Annual Action Plan to the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) as an application for the receipt of Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds, HOME Investment Partnership (HOME) funds, Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG) funds and Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS (HOPWA) funds; to accept funds from the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in the total amount of $7,359,580.00; and to appropriate $7,479,580.00, consisting of the accepted funds and $120,000.00 in CDBG prior year surplus funds for various projects.

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 Council of the City of Richmond has scheduled a public hearing, open to all interested citizens, on Monday, July 23, 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. 2018-153 To reserve the easternmost southbound lane of North Belvidere Street on the north side of North Belvidere Street’s intersection with West Broad Street for vehicular traffic making a left turn from southbound North Belvidere Street onto eastbound West Broad Street. (COMMITTEE: Land Use, Housing and Transportation, Tuesday, July 17, 2018, 1:00 p.m., Council Chamber) Ordinance No. 2018-154 To amend and reordain City Code § 29184, concerning the designation of bus stops for the motorbus system, for the purpose of prohibiting bus stops on North Davis Avenue.

(COMMITTEE: Land Use, Housing and Transportation, Tuesday, July 17, 2018, 1:00 p.m., Council Chamber) Ordinance No. 2018-155 To amend and reordain City Code § 29172, concerning the designation of routes for motorbus systems, for the purpose of prohibiting certain operations of a motorbus system of passenger transportation in the block bounded

by West Broad Street, North Robinson Street, West Grace Street, and North Davis Avenue.

(COMMITTEE: Land Use, Housing and Transportation, Tuesday, July 17, 2018, 1:00 p.m., Council Chamber)

purpose of establishing cooperation between the City’s Department of Police and the County’s Department of Police in the furnishing of certain law enforcement services.

Ordinance No. 2018-172 As Amended To authorize the Chief Administrative Officer to accept $890,776.00 from the Virginia Department of Rail and Public Transportation and to appropriate the increase to the Fiscal Year [20172018] 2018-2019 Capital Budget by increasing estimated revenues and the amount appropriated to the Department of Economic and Community Development’s Main Street Station MultiModal Transportation Center project in the Economic and Community Development category by $890,776.00 for the purpose of funding the Main Street Station Phase 3 development.

Ordinance No. 2018-173 As Amended To authorize the Chief Administrative Officer to accept $5,526,936 from the United States Department of Transportation, Federal Transit Administration and to appropriate the increase to the Fiscal Year [20172018] 2018-2019 Capital Budget by increasing estimated revenues and the amount appropriated to the Department of Economic and Community Development’s Main Street Station MultiModal Transportation Center project in the Economic and Community Development category by $5,526,936 for the purpose of funding the Main Street Station Phase 3 development.

Ordinance No. 2018-180 To close, to public use and travel, a portion of Railroad Avenue located between West 13th Street and West 14th Street, a portion of the west side of West 13th Street located between Riverview Parkway and Railroad Avenue, and a portion of the south side of Riverview Parkway near West 14th Street Extended, together consisting of 13,198± square feet, upon certain terms and conditions, and to authorize the Chief Administrative O ff i c e r t o a c c e p t a dedication of right-ofway improvements and property, consisting of 11,510± square feet, in connection with the closing of such portion of Railroad Avenue.

Ordinance No. 2018-181 To amend and reordain City Code § 30-930.5 to modify the White House of the Confederacy Old and Historic District (1201 East Clay Street). Both parcels are currently located in the White House of the Confederacy Old and Historic District, created in 1970. Ordinance No. 70-111 created eleven (11) single structure historic districts all of which were considered to be of “historical or architectural interest.”

Per City Code section 30-930.2, “the purpose of creating old and historic districts is to provide a means by which the city council may recognize and protect the historic, architectural, cultural, and artistic heritage of the city.”

The property is zoned B-4 - Central Business District.

The City’s Master Plan recommends institutional land use for the subject property and surrounding properties.

Ordinance No. 2018-182 To rezone the properties known as 4910, 4920, and 4930 Forest Hill Avenue from the B-2 Community Business District and t h e P OD - 1 P l a n o f Development Overlay District to the UB-2 Urban Business District. The City of Richmond’s current Master Plan designates a future land use category for the subject properties as Community Commercial.

Primary uses for this category include office, retail, personal service and other commercial and service uses, intended to provide the shopping and service needs of residents of a number of nearby neighborhoods or a section of the City. Typical zoning classifications that may accommodate this land use category: B-2, UB, and UB-2.

Ordinance No. 2018-167 To authorize the Chief Administrative Officer, for and on behalf of the City of Richmond, to execute a Law Enforcement Mutual Aid Agreement between the City of Richmond, Virginia, and the County of Chesterfield for the

Ordinance No. 2018-183 To amend and reordain Ord. No. 84-77-67, adopted Apr. 24, 1984, which authorized the use of the property known as 5901 Patterson Avenue and 804 Maple Avenue for the purpose of medical office use, to authorize the use of the property for office and personal service uses, upon certain terms and conditions. The property is located in the R-4 Single-Family Residential Zoning District. The City of Richmond’s current Land Use Plan designates a future land use category for the subject property as Office Transitional.

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category include lowto-medium intensity professional, business and administrative offices, and medical and dental clinics that are compatible with adjacent residential uses and serve as separation between residential areas and nearby commercial or other higher intensity land uses or features.

Ordinance No. 2018-184 To a u t h o r i z e t h e conditional use of the property known as 939 Myers Street for the purpose of authorizing a nightclub, upon certain terms and conditions. The current zoning designation for this property is TOD-1 - Transit-Oriented Nodal District. The subject property is designated by the City’s Pulse Corridor Plan for Nodal MixedUse land uses. This designation is a transit oriented district located immediately adjacent to the Pulse BRT or other frequent transit service at key gateways and prominent places in the city in order to provide for significant, urban form development in appropriate locations.

Ordinance No. 2018-185 To authorize the Chief Administrative Officer to accept grant funds in the amount of $20,000.00 from the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation, and to appropriate the increase to the Fiscal Year 2018-2019 Special Fund Budget by increasing estimated revenues and the amount appropriated to the Department of Parks, Recreation and Community Facilities by $20,000.00 for the purpose of assisting with the costs associated with the 62nd Annual Festival of Arts at Dogwood Dell.

Ordinance No. 2018-193 To authorize the Chief Administrative Officer, for and on behalf of the City of Richmond, to execute a Lease Extension Agreement between Northbrook Properties, Inc., as lessor and the City of Richmond as lessee for the purpose of providing office and storage space for the Department of Parks, Recreation and Community Facilities at 1209 Admiral Street.

(COMMITTEE: Land Use, Housing and Transportation, Tuesday, July 17, 2018, 1:00 p.m., Council Chamber) Ordinance No. 2018-194 To prohibit, on Brook Road between Brook Road’s intersection with Azalea Avenue and Brook Road’s intersection with West Charity Street, new travel lanes from being designated to accommodate bicycle travel and lanes currently designated for motor vehicle travel from being converted to accommodate bicycle travel. (COMMITTEE: Land Use, Housing and Transportation, Tuesday, July 17, 2018, 1:00 p.m., Council Chamber) Ordinance No. 2018-195 To authorize the Chief Administrative Officer, for and on behalf of the City of Richmond, to execute a Grant Agreement between the City of Richmond, 400 Hull Street, LLC, and the Economic Development Authority of the City of Richmond to induce 400 Hull Street, LLC, to construct a mixeduse development and public improvements on the approximately 2.2acre city block bounded

by Hull Street, Decatur Street, East 4th Street, and East 5th Street in the Manchester neighborhood in the city of Richmond. ( COMMITTEE : Finance and Economic Development, Thursday, July 19, 2018, 5:00 p.m., Council Chamber) Ordinance No. 2018-196 To establish a trust, through participation in the Virginia Pooled OPEB Trust Fund, to fund post-employment benefits other than pensions in accordance with Va. Code § 15.21544. (COMMITTEE: Finance and Economic Development, Thursday, July 19, 2018, 5:00 p.m., Council Chamber) Ordinance No. 2018-197 To amend ch. 12, art. I of the City Code by adding therein a new § 12-15.3, concerning reporting requirements for capital projects. (COMMITTEE: Finance and Economic Development, Thursday, July 19, 2018, 5:00 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.

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City of Richmond, Virginia CITY COUNCIL PUBLIC NOTICE Notice is hereby given that the City of Richmond Planning Commission has scheduled a public hearing, open to all interested citizens, on Monday, July 16, 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, July 23, 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. 2018-186 To amend Ord. No. 2008-111-133, adopted Jun. 23, 2008, which conditionally rezones the properties known as 1000 and 1100 Jefferson Davis Highway (also known as the Model Tobacco Site) from the M-1 Light Industrial District to the B-6 Mixed-Use Business District (Conditional), upon certain proffered conditions, to revise the proffered conditions.

The property is zoned B-6 Mixed-Use Urban Business. The Master Plan recommends Mixed Use land use for the subject property, which includes combinations of office, retail, personal service, general commercial, and service uses and, in some cases, multi-family residential and dwelling units above ground floor commercial.

Ordinance No. 2018-187 To rezone the properties known as 210 and 212 Brinser Street; 101, 103, 105, 115, and 117 Thurman Street; and 2400 Elton Street from the M-1 Light Industrial District to the B-6 MixedUse Business District.

The property is zoned M-1 Light Industrial.

The Master Plan recommends Mixed-Use land use for the subject property, which includes “combinations of office, retail, personal service, general commercial, and service uses and, in some cases, multi-family residential and dwelling units above ground floor commercial” (p. 134). The B-6 district is a typical zoning classification to accommodate this land use category.

Ordinance No. 2018-188 To amend and reordain Ord. No. 74-221-232, adopted Oct. 29, 1974, as last amended by Ord. No. 2003-70-60, adopted Mar. 24, 2003, which authorized a special use of the property known as 6100 Jahnke Road and legitimized an increase in the number of permitted restaurants and the permitted floor area for the restaurant use in an existing shopping center, to authorize up to three restaurants, upon certain terms and conditions.

The property is currently zoned R-3 Single-Family Residential. The City of Richmond’s current Master Plan designates a future land use category for the subject property as Single Family Medium Density. As stated in the plan, “Primary uses are single-family and twofamily 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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property for Single Family Medium Density (SF-MD) uses which includes, single-family and twofamily 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. The density of the proposed development would be approximately 33 units per acre.

is, without effect.

It is therefore ordered that the said Chastity Antoinette Willis do appear in the Clerk’s Office of the Law Division of the Circuit Court of the City of Richmond, John Marshall Courts Building, 400 North 9th Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219, on or before July 22, 2018 and do whatever necessary to protect her interest in this suit.

An Extract, Teste: EDWARD F. JEWETT, Clerk McCollum At Law, P.C. 422 East Franklin Street, Suite 301 Richmond, Virginia 23219 Telephone (804) 523-3900

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

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 WILLIAM T. DANIELS, JR, DWAYNE A. DANIELS, DAWN D. SHORT aka DAWN DENISE DANIELS, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before SepTember 20, 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

Ordinance No. 2018-191 To authorize the special use of the property known as 3117 West Cary Street for the purpose of permitting certain signs, upon certain terms and conditions. The property is located in the UB Urban Business District and the PO-2 Carytown Parking Overlay District. The City of Richmond’s Master Plan designates a land use category for the subject property as Community Commercial. Primary uses include office, retail, personal service and other commercial and service uses, intended to provide the shopping and service needs of residents of a number of nearby neighborhoods or a section of the C i t y. A s c o m p a r e d to Neighborhood Commercial, this category includes a broader range of uses of greater scale and intensity, with greater vehicular access and orientation, but that are also compatible with nearby residential areas.

Ordinance No. 2018-192 To authorize the special use of the properties known as 800, 802, and 806 North 32nd Street for the purpose of up to four single-family attached dwellings, upon certain terms and conditions. The property is zoned in the R-6 Single-Family Attached Residential District. The City of Richmond’s current Master Plan designates a future land use category for the subject property as Single Family Residential at medium densities.

Primary uses for this category are single-family and two-family dwellings, both detached and attached, at densities of 8 to 20 units per acre. The density of the proposed development would be approximately 24 units per acre.

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.

Candice D. Reid City Clerk

Divorce VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER SAMANTHA FISCHBACH, Plaintiff v.

CHARLES FISCHBACH, Defendant.

Case No.: CL18000798-00 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 16th day of August, 2018 at 9:00 AM 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

custody Virginia: In the Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court Richmond Commonwealth of Virginia, in re AIDAN TYLER CHADICK Case No.: J-094964-04-05 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to: Terminate the residual parental rights (“RPR”) of Unknown (Father) and Melissa Chadick (Mother) of Aidan Tyler Chadick, child DOB 09/20/2017.

“RPR” means all rights and responsibilities remaining with parent after transfer of legal custody or guardianship of the person, including but not limited to rights of; visitation; adoption consent; determination of religious affiliation; and responsibility for support.

It is ordered that the defendant Unknown (Father) and Melissa Chadick to appear at the above-named Court and protect his/her interest on or before 08/28/2018, 9:20 AM COURTROOM #2.

Virginia: in the circuit court of the city of richmond Walter Alexander Ventura Veronica Patricia Garcia Orellana In the Matter of the Proposed Adoption of a Child to Be Known as Irma Rebeca Ventura, Birth Certificate Registration No. 67-2007, Vol II. Registered in the Country of El Salvador CA 18-277 order of publication

The object of the abovestyled suit is for the petitioner, Walter Alexander Ventura, to adopt Irma Rebeca Castillo, the biological daughter of Veronica Patricia Garcia Orellana and Josias Lemuel Castillo Salazar.

It appearing by affidavit filed according to law that the Respondent, Josias Lemuel Castillo Salazar, is not a resident of the State of Virginia and that his last known address is unknown, it is therefore ORDERED that Respondent, Josias Lemuel Castillo Salazar, appear before this Court on or before the 3rd day of August, 2018 at 9:00 a.m. and do what is necessary to protect his interests in this suit.

A Copy Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk I ask for this: Jesse Baez, Esq. (VSB #85986) Hairfield Morton, PLC 2800 Buford Road, Suite 201 Richmond, Virginia 23235 (804) 320-6600 Counsel for Petitioners

property

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

THERESA M. JONES, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL18-2381 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 708 North 21st Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number E0000328/016, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Theresa M. Jones, Diane Green, Johnnie Green, III, Jerry Donnell Green, and Thomas Eugene Green.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owners, THERESA M . J O N ES , J OH N N IE GREE N , III , JERRY DONNELL GREEN, and THOMAS EUGENE GREEN, 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 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 THERESA M . J O N ES , JOHNNIE GREEN, III, JERRY DONNELL GREEN, and THOMAS EUGENE GREEN, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before SEPTEMBER 20, 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.

STEVEN HINCH, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL18-1436 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 1324 North 32nd Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number E000-0720/002, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Steven Hinch.

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

IT IS ORDERED that STEVEN HINCH, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before SepTember 20, 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

Ordinance No. 2018-190 To authorize the special use of the property known as 1715 Rear Hanover Avenue for the purpose of a single-family dwelling, upon certain terms and conditions. The property is zoned R-6 SingleFamily Residential.

The City of Richmond’s current Master Plan designates the subject

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

CHASTITY ANTOINETTE WILLIS, Defendant.

Civil Law No.: CL18-2494-2 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this abovestyled suit is to obtain a divorce from the bonds of matrimony from the defendant on the grounds that the parties have lived separate and apart without interruption and without cohabitation for a period of more than one year, since February 15, 2017.

And it appearing by Affidavit filed according to law that Chastity Antoinette Willis, the above-named defendant, is not a resident of this state and that due diligence has been used by or in behalf of plaintiff to ascertain in what county or city the defendant

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

MVP HOMES, LLC, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL18-2222 AMENDED ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 209 East 13th Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number S0000147/004, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record MVP HOMES, LLC.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, MVP HOMES, LLC, a corporation purged from the records o f t h e Vi r g i n i a S t a t e Corporation Commission, has not been located and has not filed a response to this action; that PAMELA L. VANHOUTEN, Beneficiary of a deed of trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 09-15158 on July 8, 2009, who has been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to her last known address, has not been personally located and has not filed a response to this action; and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.”

IT IS ORDERED that MVP HOMES, LLC, a corporation purged from the records of the Virginia State Corporation Commission, PAMELA L. VANHOUTEN, Beneficiary of a deed of trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 09-15158 on July 8, 2009, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before AUGUST 23, 2018

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

WILLIAM T. DANIELS, JR, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL18-1551 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 1506 North 26th Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number E0000711/004, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, William T. Daniels, Jr, Dwayne A. Daniels, and Dawn D. Short aka Dawn Denise Daniels.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owners, WILLIAM T. DANIELS, JR, DWAYNE A. DANIELS, and DAWN D. SHORT aka DAWN DENISE DANIELS, 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 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

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Ordinance No. 2018-189 To amend and reordain Ord. No. 2005-323-278, adopted Dec. 12, 2005, which authorized the use of the properties known as 110-118 West Marshall Street for the purpose of constructing additions to and renovating the buildings to accommodate 23 condominium dwelling units, commercial space, and accessory parking, to instead authorize 22 condominium dwelling units and additional commercial space, upon certain terms and conditions. The property is zoned R-O2 Residential Office. The City of Richmond’s Pulse Corridor Plan designates a land use category for the subject property as Neighborhood Mixed Use. Neighborhood Mixed use areas are 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.

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

ALFONZA P. GORDON, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL18-1747 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 2021 Ford Avenue, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number E0000597/012, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Alfonza P. Gordon.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, ALFONZA P. GORDON, per information and belief is deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; that CLARA G. HILL, upon information and belief deceased, or her devisees, assignees or successors in title, who may be creditors with an interest in said property, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.”

IT IS ORDERED that ALFONZA P. GORDON, per information and belief is deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, CLARA G. HILL, upon information and belief deceased, or her devisees, assignees or successors in title, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before SepTember 20, 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.

JOHN HOWLET, et al.

Defendants.

Case No.: CL18-1164 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 2310 Fairmount Avenue, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number E0000617/016, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, John Howlett, Philmore Howlett, Collins Howlett, Jackie H. Thornton, Gladys Johnson, Helen J. Hamlet, Elizabeth J. Graham, Dorothy J. Baugh, Bernard Johnson, Bessie Page, Dorothy Kornegay, Esther J. Anderson, Burnett Thomas, Portia Marie Turner, Brenda M. Melvin, and Eva H. Williams.

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devisees, assignees or successors in interest, DOROTHY KORNEGAY, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, ESTHER J. ANDERSON, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, BURNETT THOMAS, 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 owner, BERNARD JOHNSON, who has been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to his last known address, has not been personally located and has not filed a response to this action; that said owner, EVA H. WILLIAMS, 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 J O H N H O W L E T, u p o n information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, P H I L M O R E H O W L E T T, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, COLLINS HOWLETT, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, JACKIE H. THORNTON, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, GLADYS JOHNSON, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, HELEN J. HAMLET, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, ELIZABETH J. GRAHAM, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, DOROTHY KORNEGAY, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, B E S S I E PA G E , u p o n information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, DOROTHY KORNEGAY, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, ESTHER J. ANDERSON, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, BURNETT THOMAS, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, BERNARD JOHNSON, EVA H. WILLIAMS, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before SepTember 20, 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

Plaintiff, v.

PEACE ON EARTH MANAGEMENT LAWRENCE ELLIS WILLIAMS ARCHITECT, LLC, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL18-2349 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 2113 Ford Avenue, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number E000-0598/023, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record PEACE ON EARTH MANAGEMENT L AW R E N C E E L L I S WILLIAMS ARCHITECT, LLC.

An Affidavit having been filed that said 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 AUGUST 23, 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

An Affidavit having been filed that ARMAND E. ROMAN, Trustee of the Armand E. Roman Trust, has not been located and has not filed a response to this action; that JOHN WILLIAM RAY, Trustee of the Armand E. Roman Trust, 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 ARMAND E. ROMAN, Trustee of the Armand E. Roman Trust, JOHN WILLIAM RAY, Trustee of the Armand E. Roman Trust, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before AUGUST 23, 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

at Instrument Number 0830730 on December 9, 2008, a foreign limited partnership transacting business in Virginia without a certificate of registration, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before AUGUST 23, 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

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

IT IS ORDERED that VIRGINIA LEE BROWN, ARNETHIA BLOWE, SHERYL MCDOWNEY and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before AUGUST 23, 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

FOR THE COUNTY OF HENRICO JOSEPH A. TOWLER and AVON W. TOWLER Plaintiff, v.

ANY AND ALL INTERESTED PARTIES Defendants.

Case No.: CL17004844-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of the abovestyled suit is to quiet title to the real estate known as Tax Parcel Number 822724-6945, containing .1377 acres, more or less, located on and known as 1-3 West Nine Mile Road in Henrico County, Virginia, and being the same real estate conveyed to Joseph A. Towler and Avon W. Towler by deed from Julian B. Lipscomb and Sue Lipscomb, dated September 6, 1968, recorded September 6, 1968, in the Clerk’s Office of the Circuit Court of the County of Henrico, Virginia, in Deed Book 1377, Page 46.

And, it appearing by affidavit filed according to law that Any and All Interested Parties, the above-named defendants, cannot be located, it is therefore ORDERED that the said Any and All Interested Parties need to appear on September 7, 2018 at 9:30 A.M., before this Court and do what is necessary to protect their interests.

An Extract Teste: Heidi S. Barshinger, Clerk

724-5948, containing .6214 acres, more or less, located on and known as 5 West Nine Mile Road in Henrico County, Virginia, and being the same real estate conveyed to Joseph A. Towler and Avon W. Towler by deed of assumption from D.W. Thomas and Evelyn G. Thomas and C.O. Groome, Jr. and Vivian M. Groome, dated December 30, 1976, recorded January 6, 1977, in the Clerk’s Office of the Circuit Court of the County of Henrico, Virginia, in Deed Book 1712, Page 487.

And, it appearing by affidavit filed according to law that Any and All Interested Parties, the above-named defendant, cannot be located, it is therefore ORDERED that the said Any and All Interested Parties need to appear on or before September 7, 2018 at 9:30 A.M., before this Court and do what is necessary to protect their interests.

An Extract Teste: Heidi S. Barshinger, Clerk

Plaintiff, v.

ANY AND ALL INTERESTED PARTIES Defendants.

Case No.: CL17004846-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of the abovestyled suit is to quiet title to the real estate known as Tax Parcel Number 822-7246038, containing .13 acres, more or less, located on and known as 4 South Holly Avenue in Henrico County, Virginia, and being the same real estate conveyed to Joseph A. Towler and Avon W. Towler by deed from Lillian P. Adams dated August 30, 1973, recorded August 30, 1973, in the Clerk’s Office of the Circuit Court of the County of Henrico, Virginia, in Deed Book 1572, Page 124.

And, it appearing by affidavit filed according to law that Any and All Interested Parties, the above-named defendants, cannot be located, it is therefore ORDERED that the said Any and All Interested Parties need to appear on September 7, 2018 at 9:30 A.M., before this Court and do what is necessary to protect their interests.

An Extract Teste: Heidi S. Barshinger, Clerk

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

CHARLES FLEMING, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL18-2346 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 613 North 30th St, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number E000-0632/034, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, CHARLES FLEMING.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, CHARLES FLEMING, 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 RUTH DUKES, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, and SUSIE F. HALL, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; that AUDREY E. HALL, ROMAINE WILSON, ELEANOR BRAXTON, GRACE GREEN, and KENNETH FLEMING, who may have an ownership interest in said property, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; that ALFRED FLEMING, who may have an ownership interest, 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 CHARLES FLEMING, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, RUTH DUKES, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, S U S I E F. HALL, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, AUDREY E. HALL, ROMAINE WILSON, ELEANOR BRAXTON, GRACE GREEN, KENNETH FLEMING, ALFRED FLEMING, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before AUGUST 23, 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.

OTIS H. GAINES, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL18-2934 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 708 Cheatwood Avenue, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number N0180453/016, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, OTIS H. GAINES.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, OTIS H. GAINES, owner per a deed filed in the records of the Henrico Circuit Court at Deed Book 214B page 425 on March 24 1920, 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 OTIS H. GAINES, owner per a deed filed in the records of the Henrico Circuit Court at Deed Book 214B page 425 on March 24 1920, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest,and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before AUGUST 23, 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,

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

ARMAND E. ROMAN, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL18-2353 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 5621 Cary Street Road, Unit 2, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number W022-0162/031, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Armand E. Roman Trust.

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

ELLEMSENTERPRISES, LLC, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL18-2075 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 3213 2nd Avenue, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number N0001072/015, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, ELLEMSENTERPRISES, LLC.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, ELLEMSENTERPRISES, LLC, an entity cancelled in the records of the Virginia State Corporation Commission, has not been located and has not filed a response to this action; that RBA CAPITAL, LP, Beneficiary of an assignment of deed of trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 08-30730 on December 9, 2008, a foreign limited partnership transacting business in Virginia without a certificate of registration, has not file a response to this action; and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.”

IT IS ORDERED that ELLEMSENTERPRISES, LLC, an entity cancelled in the records of the Virginia State Corporation Commission, that RBA CAPITAL, LP, Beneficiary of an assignment of deed of trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court

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

JOHN B. MANN, TRUSTEE, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL18-2652 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 3017 West Leigh Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number N0001593001, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, John B. Mann and Carolyn M. Myer, Trustees.

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 SepTember 20, 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.

SAMOVER, INC, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL18-2499 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 2016 Newbourne Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number E012-0285/019, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, SAMOVER, INC.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, SAMOVER, INC, a corporation purged from the records of the Virginia State Corporation Commission, 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 SAMOVER, INC, a corporation purged from the records of the Virginia State Corporation Commission, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before AUGUST 23, 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.

CARL ELMORE DAVIS, et al.

Defendants.

Case No. : CL18-2855 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 2000 Selden Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number E0120257/021, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, CARL ELMORE DAVIS, MORRIS HERVELYN DAVIS, JACOB GEORGE DAVIS, LILLIE GAY DAVIS.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owners, CARL ELMORE DAVIS, MORRIS HERVELYN DAVIS, JACOB GEORGE DAVIS, LILLIE GAY DAVIS, 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 CARL ELMORE DAVIS, MORRIS HERVELYN DAVIS, JACOB GEORGE DAVIS, LILLIE GAY DAVIS, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before AUGUST 23, 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.

VIRGINIA LEE BROWN, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL18-2077 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 1613 West Cary Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number W0000656/016, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, VIRGINIA LEE BROWN.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, VIRGINIA LEE BROWN, upon information and belief deceased, or her/his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; that ARNETHIA BLOWE, who may have an ownership interest in said property, has Continued on next column

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

SAMOVER INC., et al.

Defendants.

Case No. : CL18-2725 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 1500 North 36th Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number E0001544/028, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, SAMOVER INC.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, SAMOVER, INC, a corporation purged from the records of the Virginia State Corporation Commission, 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 SAMOVER INC, a corporation purged from the records of the Virginia State Corporation Commission, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before AUGUST 23, 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.

MVP HOMES, LLC, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL18-2078 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 1424 North 21st Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number E0000706/001, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, MVP HOMES LLC.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, MVP HOMES, LLC, a corporation purged from the records o f t h e Vi r g i n i a S t a t e Corporation Commission, has not been located and has not filed a response to this action; that PAMELA L. VANHOUTEN, Beneficiary of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 09-15158 on July 8, 2009, who has been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to her last known address, has not been personally located and has not filed a response to this action; and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.”

IT IS ORDERED that MVP HOMES LLC, a corporation purged from the records o f t h e Vi r g i n i a S t a t e Corporation Commission, PAMELA L. VANHOUTEN, Beneficiary of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 09-15158 on July 8, 2009, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before AUGUST 23, 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 HENRICO JOSEPH A. TOWLER and AVON W. TOWLER Plaintiff, v.

ANY AND ALL INTERESTED PARTIES Defendants.

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Richmond City Council will hold a public hearing on the City’s 20162020 Consolidated Plan Amendment and its 2018 Annual Action Plan on Monday July 23, 2018 at 6:00 p.m. (this is a change in date from previous notice, no public hearing was held on June 25, 2018) in Council Chambers located in City Hall, 900 E. Broad Street.

These documents combine the planning, application, and reporting requirements for four HUD entitlement programs for which the City of Richmond receives funds: Community Development Block Grant (CDBG), HOME Investment Partnership (HOME), Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG), and Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS (HOPWA).

The 30 day public comment period which began on May 17, 2018 will be extended to July 20, 2018. Comments, written and verbal, may be provided to Mr. Yong Guo at the Richmond Department of Economic and Community Development, 1500 E. Main Street, Room 400, Richmond, VA 23219, (804) 646-6713, Yong.Guo@richmondgov.com.

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