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State of the City Mayor Levar M. Stoney outlines plans to boost public safety, health, affordable housing, job creation, violence prevention to improve the quality of life for Richmonders

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

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Mayor Levar M. Stoney delivers his State of the City address Tuesday evening to a small, in-person audience at Main Street Station. The address was livestreamed to a wider audience on the city’s Facebook page.

Taking it to the streets: ‘Violence interrupters’ will work to stop bloodshed

By George Copeland Jr.

Bigger investments in public safety – including the creation of a gun buyback program as part of a strategic effort to quell the surge in gunfire and violence.

Increased investment in affordable housing, along with fresh attention to ending squalid conditions in rental properties.

More focus on boosting recreation, creating greater access to child care and providing a healthier environment.

And continued efforts to push development that creates jobs and opportunities for all Richmonders to thrive.

Those are among the priorities Mayor Levar M. Stoney highlighted Tuesday in his annual State of the City address as he laid out his vision

for improving the quality of life for residents in officially starting his sixth year in office.

“If I could summarize this administration’s approach, I’d say, ‘We are about the fix.’ And I can say with confidence we are making progress,” the mayor said in the nearly 40-minute address that brimmed with optimism.

Public safety and housing were the main focus of his remarks to the in-person audience limited by the pandemic to fewer than 100 city officials and community leaders. The address also was livestreamed to a wider audience watching on the city’s Facebook page.

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Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity members commit to cleaning local gravesite of national founder’s family

The city is hiring new “violence interrupters,” people with connections in the community who can help mediate situations on Richmond streets before they escalate into gun violence.

Details were shared by Mayor Levar M. Stoney and Richmond Police Chief Gerald M. Smith during a news conference last week on the city’s gun violence prevention plan.

As envisioned, the “violence interrupters” would have street experience and also could be the key to de-escalating the conflicts that have sparked recent spikes in gun-related deaths.

“We need someone who can step in that gap where police can’t, someone who could actually step in there with deconfliction skills, with mitigation skills to actually reduce the threat of gun violence in our communities,” Chief Smith said. “These individuals will be from the streets. These people will come with some baggage. They will come with history, but they will come with experience and connections to the community that we don’t have.”

Chief Smith initially said the new “violence interrupters” would be paid $65,000 Chief Smith a year. That was later corrected twice, with Richmond Police issuing a statement on Feb. 4 noting the pay would be between $31,200 and $46,000 annually.

The salary figure was misstated originally, according to the department, “as a result of being misclassified internally.”

According to the Richmond Coalition of Police, several officers threatened to quit when the chief announced a salary for “violence interrupters” that is higher than the $43,000 starting salary for basic recruits and some police officers. Officers at level 1 on the scale are paid between $44,000 and $74,244.

After the brouhaha, Mayor Stoney also sent an email to Richmond officers noting his intent to seek a pay hike for officers in the budget he will submit to City Council in early March.

Mayor Stoney, Chief Smith and other city officials have sought to tamp down the rise in gun violence in the city, a trend cities across the country also have been experiencing that Mayor Stoney said “has only been made worse by the pandemic.”

Last year, Richmond reported 90 homicides, the highest number seen in 15 years.

“While no one program or strategy is a panacea that will cure this decades-old issue overnight, it’s our firm belief that the solution that’s right for Richmond relies on a holistic, community-based approach,” Mayor Stoney said. “One that takes into account the roles housing, transit, jobs and social supports play in healthier families and safer streets. One that builds trust from the ground up through collaboration and cooperation.”

As part of the overall plan, the mayor announced a new partnership with NextUp RVA, a nonprofit that provides free after-school programs for the city’s middle schoolers. The organization will distribute $1 million in new funding for

Beginning next month, members of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity will keep up the family gravesite of one of the fraternity’s founders in historic Evergreen Cemetery in Richmond’s East End. The fraternity also wants to install a historical marker at the site.

Tyler D. Parker, a member of Xi Delta Lambda Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, the Henrico graduate chapter, is manager of the volunteer project at Evergreen Cemetery, where the parents and brother of national founder Eugene Kinckle Jones are buried.

Mr. Jones, who graduated from Virginia Union University in 1905, attended graduate school at Cornell University, where he was one of the “Seven Jewels,” as the founders are known, of the nation’s first collegiate Black Greek organization on Dec. 4, 1906.

He also helped organize the fraternity’s first three chapters after Cornell, including Gamma Chapter at VUU in 1907.

“We knew the founder, Eugene Kinckle Jones, was from Richmond, but we didn’t know his parents were buried here,” Mr. Parker told the Free Press.

“Once we found the site was here, the drive (among fraternity members) to preserve the site just grew … because of the significance of this family to our fraternity and their historical significance in Richmond.”

In addition to his work with the fraternity, Eugene Kinckle Jones, the couple’s younger son, went on to serve as the

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By Ronald E. Carrington

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Members of the Virginia Association of Chapters of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity gather recently at Evergreen Cemetery at the family gravesite of Joseph Endom Jones and Rosa Kinckle Jones, parents of one of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity’s seven founders, Eugene Kinckle Jones. The Jones family, which had long associations with schools that became part of Virginia Union University, lived in Richmond in the late 1880s and early 1900s.

Advocates seek to save programs on Richmond schools budget chopping block

By Ronald E. Carrington

Fully fund computer-based learning.

And maintain the current cadre of 21 family and community engagement ambassadors who are critical to keeping Spanish-speaking students engaged with Richmond Public Schools.

That was the gist of the message that parents, teachers and other speakers passionately expressed to the Richmond School Board Monday night during a public hearing on

the proposed budget lion a year. that board members “This would just are now working to scale (the program) finalize. back in a way to Richmond Schools keeping it for the Superintendent Jalong haul,” Mr. Kamson Kamras is proras said after the posing to slash the hearing. staff assigned to the Both parents and Mr. Kamras Richmond Virtual current RPS staff Academy from 80 to 10 people. members called the program Currently, they serve about 550 invaluable in enabling students students from families that have to attend school without the risk opted not to return to in-person of contracting COVID-19 by atlearning. tending in-person classes. Others Mr. Kamras said the av- noted that the virtual program is erage of seven students per beneficial for students who are online class is unsustainable. on long-term suspension or face His proposal would authorize health or other challenges that a virtual enrollment of up to prevent them from physically 250 students, with each teacher attending classes. dealing with up to 25 students Please turn to A4 at a total cost of about $1 mil-

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Neighborhood ‘Super Bowl’ in North Side A group of John Marshall High School football players take advantage of a cold Sunday afternoon the week before Super Bowl LVI to play a game at Hotchkiss Field Community Center in North Side. No final score was provided, but the free game was cheaper entertainment than this weekend’s big event at SoFi Stadium outside Los Angeles.

Free community testing for COVID-19 continues.

The Richmond and Henrico County health districts are offering testing at the following locations: • Thursday, Feb. 10, 4 to 6 p.m. - Southside Plaza WIC Office, 509 E. Southside Plaza.

• Friday, Feb. 11, 3 to 6 p.m. - Southwood Pool House, Southwood Parkway and Clarkson Road.

All events will provide walk-up testing, though appointments can still be made by calling (804) 205-3501 or going to www.rchd.com Call the Richmond and Henrico COVID-19 Hotline at (804)

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Free Press recognized Jean Patterson Boone, publisher of the Richmond Free Press, talks with Virginia Commonwealth University Professor Chioke I’Anson about the vision and trials in starting the award-winning newspaper 30 years ago during the George Mason Award ceremony Feb. 3 sponsored by the Virginia Pro Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. Mrs. Boone and her late husband, Raymond H. Boone, who founded the publication in January 1992, were recognized by the organization with the George Mason Award for their outstanding contributions to the field of journalism. The ceremony, held at the VCU Institute for Contemporary Art and livestreamed virtually, was originally scheduled in 2020 but delayed because of the pandemic. The portrait of the Boones shown on a screen above the stage was taken in April 2014 by Cleveland-based photojournalist Annie O’Neill just months before Mr. Boone’s death in June 2014 of pancreatic cancer. The Free Press also was recognized by Richmond Delegate Jeff Bourne during Monday’s floor session of the Virginia House of Delegates for its 30-year legacy to “inform, educate and empower readers” in the Richmond area.

Black Book Expo kicks off Feb. 15

Books and authors will be the focus of a Black History Month expo being held during the next two weeks.

The Elegba Folklore Society is hosting the event, “Black Book Expo, A Conscious Literary Festival,” that will launch with “Author Chats” with writers livestreamed on the society’s Facebook page 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 15, Wednesday, Feb. 16, and Tuesday, Feb. 22.

On Tuesday, the society’s founding director, Janine Y. Bell, will talk with Stephanie Rose Bird on her latest work, “The Healing Power of African American Spirituality: A Celebration of Ancestor Worship, Herbs and Hoodoo, Ritual and Conjure.”

The Wednesday chat will be with legendary Richmond musician James “Plunky” Branch, who has just released his first book of poetry, “Juju Jazz Poetics.”

Ms. Bell will wrap up the chats on Feb. 22 with a conversation with editor, columnist and author A. Peter Bailey on his new work, “Brother Malcolm X’s Strategic Guide to Pan Africanism: An Important Guide for People of African Descent.”

The expo then will become an in-person event from 3 to 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 26, and Sunday, Feb. 27, in Rhythm Hall at the Dominion Energy Center, 600 E. Grace St., where people can meet authors and browse and buy books on a wide range of subjects.

Attendees are required to wear masks.

Sponsors include the National Endowment for the Humanities, the City of Richmond and the Richmond Memorial Health Foundation.

Details: www.efsinc.org or (804) 644-3900.

Armstrong Renaissance is heading to the finish line after more than three years of construction at this East End site near the city’s border with Henrico County. Crews now are focusing on development of the final phase – 36 attached and detached homes to be sold at market rates – that Slices of life and scenes will cap the redevelopment on the former site of Armstrong High School. in Richmond Oversized compared with most of the homes on nearby streets, the new houses were initially priced between $225,000 and $350,000 and are designed to add a residential cachet to the area.

When finished, the total 22-acre development will contain 256 modern apartments and houses. The first residents moved in just before Thanksgiving in 2019.

Previously called Church Hill North, Armstrong Renaissance is the creation of a partnership of the Richmond Redevelopment and Housing Authority and the Boston-based nonprofit affordable housing developer, The Community Builders. The project is designed as the first step in the future redevelopment of the 30-acre Creighton Court public housing community located across Nine Mile Road.

The new units were used, in part, to relocate Creighton Court residents, clearing the way for a large chunk of the public housing community to be bulldozed and replaced with new units. Demolition of a major portion of Creighton Court is expected this year.

Mayor Levar M. Stoney and Richmond City Council cleared the way by allocating $6.8 million in federal American Rescue Plan Act funds to pay for new streets, alleys and underground utilities in the Creighton Court redevelopment.

HOME to receive $1.1M from landmark multimillion-dollar bias settlement with Fannie Mae

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

It took six years, but a national mortgage company has finally agreed to accept responsibility for its racial bias in handling foreclosed property.

In a landmark settlement announced Monday, Fannie Mae has agreed to pay $53 million in compensation to end a 2016 suit that alleged the government-backed mortgage giant allowed foreclosed homes in majority Black and Latino communities to deteriorate while ensuring similar homes in predominantly white neighborhoods were maintained.

Fannie Mae also has agreed to implement practices to prevent a recurrence of such mismanagement of foreclosed property in the future, including implementing improved maintenance practices, giving individuals rather than investors priority for foreclosure purchases and training its employees and contractors in fair housing requirements.

The Richmond-based Housing Opportunities Made is among 20 fair housing groups that will share in the settlement.

“This settlement recognizes the wrongs done to communities of color in the Rich-

mond region that were particularly hard hit during the foreclosure crisis,” stated Monica L. Jefferson, HOME’s interim president and chief executive officer.

Led by the National Fair Housing Ms. Jefferson Alliance, HOME and 19 other affiliates filed the groundbreaking suit that grew out of the great foreclosure bubble that began with the banking collapse of 2008. Hundreds of thousands of faulty and poorly underwritten home loans went into default.

The settlement, ironically, comes amid a housing boom that has resulted in all of the former foreclosed properties being snapped up, renovated and returned to the market at far higher prices.

According to HOME, this was the first federal case that confirmed the nation’s fair housing laws cover the maintenance and marketing of foreclosed property.

The case was based on data that HOME

and the 19 other organizations gathered on Fannie Mae’s handling of 2,300 foreclosed properties in 39 localities, including 40 in Richmond and surrounding localities. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development provided grants that helped the groups develop their evidence.

The suit alleged that 20 percent of Fannie Mae’s foreclosed properties in Black and Latino neighborhoods had 10 or more maintenance issues, including holes in exterior walls and overgrown yards, while such homes in predominantly white areas rarely had such issues.

Funds from the settlement also will provide “significant financial resources to respond to community needs,” Ms. Jefferson noted.

After the plaintiff’s lawyers and other expenses are paid, HOME and the other groups will split $35 million. HOME is to receive $1.1 million as its share. The 50-year-old fair housing watchdog plans to use $750,000 to bolster services to the communities Fannie Mae harmed, such as down payment assistance for buyers and renovation assistance for owners, with the remainder going to existing programs.

State NAACP to hold “The Urgency of Now Rally” Feb. 12 at Capitol Square The Virginia State Conference NAACP is urging people to rally in support of teaching Black history from 11 a.m. to noon Saturday, Feb. 12, at the Bell Tower on the grounds of the State Capitol.

“The Urgency of Now Rally” is aimed at celebrating Black history and countering negative messages on the subject from Gov. Glenn A. Youngkin’s administration, including the governor’s development of a tip line for parents to report the teaching of “divisive” history concepts.

A virtual poster announcing the event asks, “What is America without Black history?”

A win for education. $11 billion to Virginia’s K-12 public schools since 1999.

The rally appears to represent the state NAACP’s pushback against Gov. Youngkin’s executive orders just weeks after state NAACP leaders had a cordial meeting with the incoming governor and reported that they believed they could work with the businessman-turned-politician on various issues of importance to the Black community.

Rally speakers are to include representatives of the state and national NAACP and other civil rights groups, according to the announcement.

Masks are required.

Details: www.naacpva.org and go to “Upcoming Events.”

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public safety and programs aimed at preventing the conditions that breed violence must remain a major focus after a year in which the city reported 93 homicides, the most in nearly 20 years, with hundreds of others treated for gunshot wounds.

In a bid to reassure the public the issue is being addressed, he said one new tool in the city’s violence-prevention arsenal would involve an investment of $500,000 in apparently the city’s first no-questions-asked buyback program of operable weapons.

Despite a lack of evidence that such programs make a difference, the mayor credited two City Council members, Ann-Frances Lambert, 3rd District, and Stephanie A. Lynch, 5th District, and Police Chief Gerald M. Smith with pushing the idea as a complement to the Richmond Police Department’s own efforts that last year led to the seizure of more than 900 illegal guns.

While details of the gun buyback are still being developed, Mayor Stoney also cited other research-based efforts for prevention services, including the plan announced last week to provide $1 million to the nonprofit NextUp RVA to support community-based programs providing after-school, mental health and other wraparound support services.

The mayor noted that the city also has hired a community safety coordinator to work with residents to create programs that can reduce violence and Chief Smith’s plan to hire three

former prison inmates to help interrupt violence by holding conversations with those prone to such action.

The mayor also repeated his promise to include significant pay raises for police officers and firefighters, all under stress from high turnover and the lowest pay in the Richmond area. He did not mention pay hikes for other underpaid city workers. He noted Chief Smith also is seeking to boost retention of current officers and recruitment of new officers and is working on a package of incentives to make his department, now suffering from depleted morale, more attractive.

“It’s simple: In order to prosper, our city needs to be safe,” Mayor Stoney said. “That means we must be tough on violent crime and tough on the root causes of crime.”

Still, the mayor said he is not backing off his support for the creation of a civilian review board to hear complaints about officers. He said he has brought in an expert, Dr. William “Will” Pelfrey Jr., a professor at Virginia Commonwealth University, to ensure the final design “fits the needs of Richmond.”

On the housing front, another sector he linked to public safety and quality of life, he said the city is revving up its inspection staff and will be cracking down on owners and landlords who fail to maintain their property.

“I won’t sugar coat it,” he said. “We’ve got apartment complexes in Black and Brown neighborhoods with infestations of rodents, roaches and bedbugs. We’ve got children

Free COVID-19 vaccines Continued from A1 205-3501 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday for more information on testing sites, or go online at vax.rchd.com.

Want a COVID-19 vaccine or booster shot?

The Richmond and Henrico health districts are offering free walk-up COVID-19 vaccines at the following locations: • Monday through Saturday, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. – Community Vaccination Center, Arthur Ashe Jr. Athletic Center, 3001 N. Arthur Ashe Blvd., Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson.

• Thursday, Feb. 10, 1 to 3 p.m. – Richmond Health Department Cary Street Clinic, 400 E. Cary St., Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson; 4 to 7 p.m. - Pinchbeck Elementary, 1275 Gaskins Rd., Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson.

• Monday, Feb. 14, 4 to 7 p.m. - Miles Jones Elementary School, 200 Beaufont Hills Dr., Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson.

• Tuesday, Feb. 15, Noon to 2 p.m. - Henrico East Health Department Clinic, 1400 N. Laburnum Ave., Pfizer and Moderna; 4 to 6 p.m. - Southwood Pool House, 1601 Clarkson Road Apartment B, Pfizer and Moderna; 5 to 8 p.m. - John Marshall High School, 4225 Old Brook Rd., Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson.

• Wednesday, Feb. 16, 9 to 11 a.m. – Henrico West Health Department Clinic, 8600 Dixon Powers Drive, Pfizer and Moderna; 1 to 3 p.m. - Mosby Resource Center, 1543 Coalter St., Pfizer and Moderna; 4 to 7 p.m. - Bellevue Elementary School, 2301 E. Grace St., Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson.

• Thursday, Feb. 17, 1 to 3 p.m. – Richmond Health Department Cary Street Clinic, 400 E. Cary St., Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson; 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. - Binford Middle School 1701 Floyd Ave., Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson.

Children ages 5 to 17 may only receive the Pfizer vaccine.

Vaccinations and booster shots are available for all eligible of any age on a walk-in basis.

No appointment is needed, although people may schedule an appointment online at vaccinate.virginia.gov or vax. rchd.com, or by calling (804) 205-3501 or (877) VAX-IN-VA (1-877-829-4682).

VaccineFinder.org and vaccines.gov also allow people to find nearby pharmacies and clinics that offer the COVID-19 vaccine and booster.

The Chesterfield County Health District is offering free testing at the following locations: • Thursday, Feb. 10, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. - Chesterfield Fairgrounds, 10300 Courthouse Rd., Gate 4.

• Wednesday, Feb. 16, 3 to 5 p.m. - Faith & Family Church Community Center 7900 Walmsley Blvd.

The Chesterfield Health District is closing the testing site at the Chesterfield Fairgrounds after Thursday because of lower testing demand from the public.

Vaccines and booster shots at available at the following location: • Community Vaccination Center, Rockwood Shopping Center (in the former Big Lots store), 10161 Hull Street Road, Midlothian, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday.

Walk-ins are welcome, but appointments are encouraged by going to www.vaccines.gov or call (877) VAX-IN-VA. Appointments are required for children ages 5 to 11.

Those who are getting a booster shot should bring their vaccine card to confirm the date and type of vaccine received.

A total of 4,738 new cases of COVID-19 were reported statewide Wednesday for the 24-hour period, contributing to an overall state total of 1,593,694 cases of coronavirus since the pandemic’s outbreak. As of Wednesday, there have been 447,561 hospitalizations and 17,305 deaths statewide. The state’s seven-day positivity rate dropped to 18.5 percent on Wednesday. Last week, the positivity rate was 23.5 percent.

On Wednesday, state health officials reported that 70.7 percent of the state’s population has been fully vaccinated, while 79.5 percent of the people have received at least one dose of the vaccine.

State data also showed that over 2.7 million people in Virginia have received booster shots or third doses of the vaccine.

Among those ages 5 to 11 in Virginia, 285,866 children have received their first shots, accounting for 39.5 percent of the eligible age group in the state, while over 209,200 children are fully vaccinated and more than 210 have received a booster shot or third dose. As of Wednesday, 130,000 cases, 840 hospitalizations and eight deaths have been recorded among children.

State data also show that African-Americans comprised 22.5 percent of cases statewide and 23.3 percent of deaths for which ethnic and racial data is available, while Latinos made up 12.3 percent of cases and 5.5 percent of deaths.

Reported COVID-19 data as of Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2022 Cases Hospitalizations Deaths Richmond 42,702 1,017 421 Henrico County 61,617 1,339 819 Chesterfield County 69,024 1,294 671 Hanover County 20,610 411 238

playing on floors soaked in wastewater. We have families sleeping under ceilings covered in mold. And we’ve got tenants afraid that if they complain, their landlords will raise their rent or evict them.”

In addition, he said the city is focused on creating affordable, dignified housing, citing the previously announced investment of $10 million a year in the city’s affordable housing trust fund and in the creation of new homes in Creighton Court in the East End and Highland Grove in North Side.

He predicted the coming years would see more groundbreakings and ribbon cuttings as new housing efforts take place.

He noted that four new recreation centers will be built in the coming years, a new program to subsidize child care will be rolled out and a new effort to create a universal pre-kindergarten program will be created in the city to ensure every child gets a good start.

Mayor Stoney also noted his administration has initiated a Triple A business program to provide support to small businesses and startups and is seeking to open new opportunities in pushing for a mixed-income, mixed-used development and a new baseball stadium on the land where The Diamond baseball stadium now stands.

He also noted the city is starting the process of redeveloping about 20 acres in Downtown, from the Coliseum to City Hall, with a private developer’s pending replacement of the Public Safety Building representing the first step.

He also pointed to the coming $500 million investment planned by the CoStar real estate data firm on the riverfront that is to generate 2,000 new job in noting the city is sending a message that “Richmond, Virginia, is an exciting and attractive play to live, work and prosper.”

However, he expressed hope that Richmond voters will authorize a casino in urging the General Assembly not to block a second referendum for city voters to decide whether they want it.

Aside from internal problems of poverty and crime, the mayor said the pandemic remains a reality and he publicly called out new Gov. Glenn A. Youngkin for seeking to allow parents and their kids to spread disease in schools by making masks optional. Mayor Stoney called that “wrong and dangerous,” and a denial of the science supporting mask-wearing to defeat the pandemic.

Meanwhile, he said Richmond this year will be investing in a health equity program run by the city Health Department to help residents become healthier. Additionally, the city will be working with regional partners to address opioid addiction and unveiling the RVAgreen 2050 action plan to address climate change and environmental issues.

“We are tackling the issues that everyday Richmonders are facing, and we are bringing the fix,” he said. “We want families to thrive in our city. We are putting in the work today so that when our children grow up, they inherit a city filled with opportunity.”

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first executive secretary of the National Urban League in 1918.

He organized Urban League offices in 40 cities to help eliminate barriers to Black employment, expand vocational learning opportunities for young people and to boost Black membership in previously segregated labor unions. His expertise and advice was sought after and he served as part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “Black cabinet.”

He was born July 30, 1885, in Richmond to Joseph Endom Jones, a formerly enslaved man, and Rosa Kinckle Jones, a free woman, both from Lynchburg.

“At the time, there were very few educated Black Americans coming out of slavery,” Mr. Parker said.

Shortly after the Civil War, Joseph E. Jones attended Richmond Theological Seminary in Richmond and then moved to New York, where he graduated from Madison University, now Colgate University, in 1876. He returned to Richmond to become a professor of Greek and church history at the seminary, which later became Virginia Union University, and served as a minister at Bethesda Baptist Church near Petersburg.

He was a major leader in the Baptist Church among Black people in Virginia, and was said to have installed more pastors than any other Black man in America, according to newspaper accounts at his death in 1922.

His wife, Rosa Kinckle Jones, was among the first women to graduate from Howard University’s Normal School in 1880.

She became one of the first African-American teachers in the Lynchburg public school system, and after marrying in 1882, came to Richmond where she was in charge of the music department for nearly 40 years at Hartshorn Memorial College, a school on Lombardy Street for African-American women that also became a part of VUU. She died in 1932.

The couple’s older son, Henry Endom Jones, was hurt while playing in a football game at VUU and never fully recovered, according to a Jones family history on the VUU website. He died in 1912 at age 30 and is buried with his parents in the family

plot at Evergreen Cemetery.

Last fall, Mr. Parker began researching Eugene Kinckle Jones and “I was intrigued,” Mr. Parker said. “I began to connect the dots with his family” and learned his parents and brother were interred at Evergreen.

Eugene Kinckle Jones, however, is buried in Flushing, N.Y., where he and his wife and two children lived for many decades.

He died in 1954.

Mr. Parker said John Mitchell, a community ambassador with Enrichmond Foundation that oversees Evergreen Cemetery and the great-great nephew of fiery Richmond Planet newspaper editor John Mitchell Jr., helped him locate the Jones family gravesite, which was not far from the plots where Mr. Mitchell and noted businesswoman Maggie L. Walker are buried.

A small group from the fraternity visited the Jones gravesite in December, but their elation at being there was tempered by the conditions of the grounds.

“When we found the plot, it was clear that a tree had fallen on a retaining wall. The tree had been cut down, yet the stump remained,” Mr. Parker said. “Plus, there was a lot of brush and growth surrounding the family gravesite. Everything had fallen into disrepair and was in need of cleaning,” he said.

Mr. Parker sent an email to fraternity brothers and posted a picture of the site on social media. The response, he said, was tremendous.

“They wanted to get involved in preserving the site,” he said.

Alphas from several area chapters now are committed to cleaning the obelisk and monuments on the Jones family site, putting down fresh top soil and planting sod or new grass seed and possibly installing a new fence around the site.

“We celebrate Founders Day on Dec. 4, and I can see us celebrating it right there,” Mr. Parker said.

He said the group also plans to submit paperwork for a historical marker to be installed at the site so that visitors will know the accomplishments of the Jones family and their connection to the founding of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity.

“I like to say, ‘Without them (Mr. Jones’ parents), there would be no him,’ ” Mr. Parker said.

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community-led programs, including child care programs, mentorships, after-school programming, mental health support and tutoring services.

To ensure these and future prevention

measures operate in the public’s interest, the city has hired its first community safety coordinator, Samuel Brown, a former teacher, coach and Richmond native who has worked with the Peter Paul Development Center, a nonprofit child development center in the East End.

Mr. Brown also will host communitycentered discussions and groups, with an approach defined by the fundamentals of the city’s gun violence prevention framework — engagement, prevention, intervention and training and support services for both victims and perpetrators.

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The board heard from one advocate who addressed them in Spanish, which most of the board did not understand. The board was told that is the kind of situation that many students who are not fluent in English face and that the virtual academy, which offers classes in other languages, and the bilingual ambassadors help bridge that barrier.

No decisions were made. The board is scheduled to meet Wednesday, Feb. 16, for its next and potentially final review.

The board could vote as early as Monday, Feb. 21, on a final plan to send to City Hall for inclusion in the 2022-23 budget package that Mayor Levar M. Stoney will present to City Council in early March.

The Kamras proposal calls for spending a record $554.4 million on public education next year, or about $24,532 for each of the 22,600 students, including the 1,100 pre-kindergarten students who are enrolled. The new budget represents a 15.5 percent increase from the current $480 million budget, or an expenditure of about $22,238 percent student.

To be fully funded, Mr. Kamras’ plan calls for the city to boost spending from $185 million to $207 million, a $22 mil-

lion hike. That includes about $11.4 million RPS would need to match state funds to provide a 5 percent increase for teachers and other staff.

Board member Jonathan M. Young, 4th District, presented an alternative budget plan that would double enrollment at two specialty schools, Franklin Military Academy and Richmond Community High School, increase the number of city students able to attend area governor’s schools and beef up the teaching corps at the Career and Technical Education Center so that students could take math, science and other courses there and stay on the North Side campus longer.

Mr. Young’s proposal, among other things, calls for reducing the request for city funds to less than $10 million and would eliminate up to $12.4 million in proposed expenditures on Chromebooks and other technology.

In all, his package changes involves about $18 million in spending changes or about 3 percent of the Kamras budget plan.

His plan also calls for cutting 35 positions from the central office staff, compared with the 16 positions Mr. Kamras’ plan would eliminate.

“I think we need to shake things up,” Mr. Young has told his colleagues.

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Black History Month events continue …

Black History Month is an annual celebration of achievements by African-Americans and a time for recognizing their central role in U.S. history. The event grew out of “Negro History Week,” the brainchild of noted historian Dr. Carter G. Woodson and other prominent African-Americans.

Black History Month was first proposed by Black educators and the Black United Students at Kent State University in February 1969. Their first celebration took place in 1970, with the monthlong event then being celebrated throughout America in educational institutions, centers of Black culture and community centers.

Some of the month’s local events include:

at www.support.vcu.edu/event/ BlackHistoryMonth2022.

Saturday, Feb. 12, at 2 p.m., Glen Allen Branch Library, 10501 Staples Mill Road.

Public historian, biographer and filmmaker Elvatrice Belsches will offer a multimedia talk amplifying the extraordinary contributions of educator Virginia E. Randolph.

Born in 1870, Ms. Randolph was an educator in Henrico County who was named the United States’ first “Jeanes Supervising Industrial Teacher” by the county’s superintendent of schools, Jackson Davis. She led a program funded by the Jeanes Foundation to upgrade vocational training throughout the U.S. South.

As her career progressed, she was Thursday, Feb. 10, 7 to 8:30 Ms. Gordon-Reed an advocate for public health and p.m., Virginia Commonwealth University juvenile justice reform.

James Branch Cabell Library Lecture Hall, Ms. Belsches currently is working on a 901 Park Ave. documentary about Ms. Randolph’s legacy and Pulitzer-Prize winning historian Annette is the recipient of a Virginia Humanities grant Gordon-Reed tells the sweeping story of Ju- for her project. neteenth, chronicling its origins in Texas and Details: henricolibrary.org/calendar. the many hardships African-Americans have endured since then. The talk will be based on Monday, Feb. 14, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. – Rita her new book, “On Juneteenth.”

Daniels, the great-great-great niece or Harriet Program is sponsored by VCU Libraries. Tubman, will speak about how Ms. Tubman’s Register to attend in person or to watch online legacy continues to grow and impact today’s

youths. Presented by the Richmond Public Library’s “Get Lit” literacy initiative and the Harriet Tubman Learning Center, which was established in 2015 by Ms. Daniels and Geraldine Copes-Daniels.

The event is virtual. Registration: https:// rvalibrary.libcal.com/event/8281939.

Wednesday, Feb. 23, 7 to 8 p.m. – “How the Lee Monument Came Down,” a virtual presentation by Michael Spence, managing general partner with Team Henry Enterprises, who led the team that disassembled the Monument Avenue statue and pedestal of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. The program will be facilitated

by J. Dontrese Brown, Richmond Public Library Foundation board member and co-creator of Hidden in Plain Sight Virtual History Project.

Registration for the virtual event: https:// rvalibrary.libcal.com/event/8812206 Wednesday, Feb.16, and Wednesday, Feb.23, at 7 p.m., AARP Virginia’s “Wind Down Wednesdays” series of virtual events and short film screenings. Brian Bullock, a local filmmaker and history enthusiast, will share some of his short films and will lead interviews with local historians. Registration: https:// aarp. cventevents.com/event/ea2d90c2-7c1e-4a069ef3-1d8794323643/summary Saturday, Feb. 19, at 1 p.m., Maggie L.

Walker National Historic Site will host “Matinee with Miss Maggie,” a free event to commemorate Black History Month. During a virtual film program at 1 p.m., “Imitation of Life,” will be shown. The film addresses one of the questions often asked by visitors to the site upon seeing photographs of Mrs. Walker’s light complexion: “Did Maggie L. Walker ever pass for white?”

While historical evidence suggests she never did so on purpose, “passing” was something many Black people with light skin tones did in Jim Crow America and beyond. The 1934 film “Imitation of Life” contained stories about racial passing during Mrs. Walker’s time. The public is invited to join a park historian in viewing “Imitation of Life” and discuss the significance of racial passing, both in Mrs. Walker’s time and now. Registration: Contact Park Ranger Ben Anderson at Benjamin_Anderson@nps.gov.

Sunday, Feb. 20, 1 to 6 p.m., Main Street Station, 1500 E. Main St., “UNTOLD”— Black Food and Spirits. “UNTOLD” will highlight Black history relating to the American food and spirits industry and bring today’s tastemakers under one roof. Enjoy Main Stage presentations from historians and industry tastemakers.

Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ black-food-and-spirits-untold-virginia-tickets189993334177.

Move toward collective bargaining for city employees on pause

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

Richmond City Council hit the pause button on collective bargaining Monday in a bid to gain answers to questions about the potential cost.

Two proposed ordinances that would allow City Hall employees to unionize and negotiate wages, benefits and working conditions are now on City Council’s agenda, but the members agreed to delay further consideration until early March.

While every council member endorsed the concept during the Organizational Development Meeting, they expressed concern about rushing too quickly into a potentially huge change in city management-employee relations.

“We want to get this right,” said 2nd District Councilwoman Katherine Jordan.

Among the issues confronting the council is which piece of legislation to go with.

One, from Mayor Levar M. Stoney, would initially limit unionizing and collective bargaining to refuse collectors, street pavers, pipefitters and others labor and trades employees in the city Public Works and Public Utilities departments.

The other ordinance, from 4th District Councilwoman Kristen Nye (formerly Larson) and 8th District Councilwoman Reva M. Trammell, would allow all eligible city employees to enroll in unions, with separate bargaining units for different types of employees, such as administrative professionals, public safety employees, professionals and labor and trades workers.

Lincoln Saunders, the city’s chief administrative officer, is hoping the mayor’s slower approach is adopted. That would give City Hall the opportunity to gain experience with collective bargaining rather than being overwhelmed by dealing with various bargaining

units representing a range of employees.

Mr. Saunders told the council that localities in Northern Virginia are spending about $1 million a year to hire staff needed to handle employee bargaining.

Council Vice President Ellen F. Robertson, 6th District, urged her colleagues not to rush so they can estimate the impact this new approach to employee relations could have on the new city budget Mayor Stoney will present in early March. She also urged Ms. Nye and Ms. Trammell to work with the Stoney administration to come up with a compromise for the council to consider.

Richmond is among a handful of localities Mr. Saunders that have considered or approved collective bargaining since a new state law allowing it went into effect last May. By a recent vote of the Richmond School Board, Richmond Public Schools is the first school district in Virginia to authorize its employees to engage in collective bargaining.

The council is under significant pressure to put collective bargaining in place in large part because of the issues involving pay and working conditions for city employees.

Among the 25 people who spoke during a public comment period Monday was Hannah “Mel” Borja, a policy analyst for the Commonwealth Institute for Fiscal Analysis (CIFA), a Richmondbased think tank that uses research and data to promote racial and social justice.

Ms. Borja said a new CIFA study released Jan. 27 found that 1 in 12 city workers makes too little to live in Richmond, while 75 percent of employees make too little to support themselves and their families at an adequate standard of living.

African-Americans and Latinos also fill many of the city’s lower wage jobs and comprise the largest group of employees struggling to live on current wages, Ms. Borja noted from the study.

She told the council that the pay issue is among the reasons why virtually every city agency averages an 11 percent turnover and noted that the CIFA backs collective bargaining as a key employee tool for addressing that issue.

Others cited the heavy workload due to vacancies and mistreatment by managers who appear indifferent to their employees.

City Council also heard from police officers who believe that their only real hope for change is collective bargaining. Richmond officers are now the lowest paid in the Metropolitan Richmond area, with veterans of eight to 10 years making less than first-year rookies in Henrico County and other departments.

One speaker also reminded council members that Mayor Stoney had endorsed a larger vision of collective bargaining before disappointing public safety employees by presenting a proposal eliminating police officers and firefighters from organizing unions and negotiating a contract regarding wages and working conditions.

Morale in the department has hit rock bottom, the council was told, based on the hazards the shrinking number of officers on duty face daily and the treatment often meted out by police brass to those they command.

One detective who has served 10 years as an investigator told the council that she and other detectives are still upset that their unit was disbanded and that they were reassigned with just a phone call. “We deserved better,” she said.

Advocates said that having a firm contract could not only improve pay, but also improve the working conditions.

Repeatedly, the speakers said they want a “seat at the table” so they can get fairer treatment from managers.

VCU holds free dental clinic

Leadership changes in Richmond-Henrico health districts

Children up to age 14 without dental insurance can receive free treatment next Friday, Feb. 18, courtesy of VCU Dental Care.

The clinic is celebrating the American Dental Association’s annual Give Kids A Smile program by holding the free event from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the MCV Campus in Downtown.

Location details will be provided upon registration. Space is limited.

The deadline to register for the free clinic is 5 p.m. Thursday, Feb.17.

Registration: (804) 628-4750.

The Richmond and Henrico County health districts are undergoing another big change, as the director, Dr. Danny Avula, has been named

by Gov. Glenn A. Youngkin to lead the Virginia Department of Social Services.

Dr. Melissa Viray is now acting director of the Richmond and Henrico health districts.

Dr. Avula’s appointment was announced last Friday, a few weeks after Dr. Avula exited his role as state vaccine coordinator. He had been appointed to that position by former Gov. Ralph S. Northam.

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Services,” Dr. Avula stated. “So much of the support that ultimately impacts families’ health and resilience lies within DSS. “That said, it’s bittersweet to close out my time with Richmond and Henrico Health Districts. It’s been life-giving to see the dedication of my team and all they’ve been able to accomplish. Richmond and Henrico communities are left in capable and caring hands.”

Dr. Viray has served as deputy director of the two health districts since 2017. She has spent the pandemic speaking on health issues during news conferences held by the health districts and the City of Richmond, often filling the role Dr. Avula would’ve taken in those discussions.

She previously served as deputy state epide-

miologist for the Hawaii Department of Health, and as an epidemic intelligence service officer and medical epidemiologist at the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The change in leadership comes as the Richmond and Henrico health districts have altered their approach to COVID-19 detection and prevention.

Officials announced Monday that the Richmond Raceway Community Testing Center would shift to a mobile model this week, which officials said would “increase RHHD’s ability to offer COVID-19 tests in a variety of locations and settings.”

The new testing schedule and locations are posted on the health districts’ websites at www. vdh.virginia.gov/richmond-city/richmond-andhenrico-area-covid-19-testing-sites/

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Disdain for the people We are gravely concerned by the growing disdain the Youngkin administration and his GOP and Democratic supporters have for the people of the Commonwealth.

On Tuesday, the state Senate passed an amendment that would bar school mask mandates.

The vote: 29-9.

Ten of the Senate’s 21 Democrats joined with Republicans to approve the amendment, which would give parents the right to choose whether their children will wear masks at school. The amendment was sponsored

by Democratic Sen. Chap Petersen of Fairfax, which was added to a bill sponsored by Republican Sen. Siobhan S. Dunnavant of Henrico requiring public schools to teach in-person classes.

Sen. Petersen told reporters on Tuesday that he agrees with Gov. Youngkin’s determination that masks should be optional in schools, but that it should be written into law and not merely an executive order as issued by the governor last month on his first day in office.

Then on Wednesday, the amended bill passed the Senate on a 21-17 vote, with fewer Democrats ultimately supporting the bill on final passage. However, the measure is likely to become state law as the House of Delegates, which now will consider the measure, is controlled by Republicans.

This is a new low for our state and for the Democrats who have control of the 40-member Senate. By making masks optional, lawmakers are jeopardizing the health and safety of our schoolchildren, teachers and staff.

The COVID-19 pandemic is not over. Check the numbers. Nationally, the death toll from the virus and its latest highly transmissible omicron variant has exceeded 903,000. In Virginia, more than 17,300 lives have been claimed.

Health officials now are raising concerns about BA.2, the new “stealth” variant of omicron that possibly is headed our way. The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other health professionals stress that the best ways for people to protect themselves and their loved ones from the virus and its potential long-term effects are to wear a mask and get vaccinated.

According to the latest statistics, 1 in 5 people tested for COVID-19 in the state are coming up positive. While those numbers have receded from the recent 35 percent positivity rate in the state, lifting a mask mandate can leave millions of Virginians unprotected when they need it the most.

For state lawmakers to join those who, like Gov. Youngkin, eschew science in the name of parents’ rights and personal freedom signals a disregard for human life and a failure to protect our most vulnerable. This is particularly dire for African-Americans and other people of color who continue to be disproportionately impacted by the virus, in terms of deaths and number of cases.

We applaud Richmond Sen. Jennifer L. McClellan for standing up with eight other Democratic senators and voting against Sen. Petersen’s amendment. She was joined in opposition by Virginia Legislative Black Caucus colleagues Sen. L. Louise Lucas of Portsmouth and Sen. Mamie Locke of Hampton, who also voted against the final version of the bill on Wednesday.

Sen. Joseph “Joe” Morrissey and Sen. Ghazala F. Hashmi, both Democrats who represent portions of Richmond, voted for the optional mask amendment, along with VLBC member Sen. Lionell Spruill of Chesapeake.

On Wednesday, Sen. Morrissey voted for the bill’s final passage, while Sen. Hashmi and Sen. Spruill voted against it.

This legislative gambit simply adds to the confusion that sprang up from Gov. Youngkin’s Jan. 15 executive order banning school systems from enforcing mask mandates in the classroom. The issue is being hashed out in court, where several lawsuits have been filed.

A poll conducted in September by the L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs at Virginia Commonwealth University found that a majority of Virginians – 71 percent – supported mask mandates in K-12 public schools.

There was no surprise that the poll also showed a deep divide on the issue among Republicans and Democrats as well as between minorities and white people in the state.

According to the poll, 94 percent of Democrats supported the last administration’s mask mandate in public schools compared to 43 percent of respondents who identified themselves as Republicans. Additionally, 83 percent of minority and Hispanic respondents were supportive of the mandate compared to 64 percent of white, non-Hispanic Virginians.

This begs the question of whether Democratic lawmakers who oppose the mask ban are thwarting the values espoused by their constituents.

The health and safety of our loved ones are of utmost concern during this pandemic. Voters will remember this.

Meme of the week “When we ban books in schools before we ban guns, we admit we are more afraid of our children learning than we are of them dying.”

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Whoopi Goldberg’s teachable moment — and ours I hesitated to say anything about Whoopi Goldberg’s remarks that resulted in her suspension from ABC’s “The View” until I could figure out precisely what to be offended about.

I have long believed—and frequently written—that an offense based on innocent ignorance, not malicious intent, should be remedied with knowledge, not punishment, unless they keep offending again.

But it was already too late. Ms. Goldberg, the widely beloved EGOT-winning (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony) comedian and actress, who was born Caryn Elaine Johnson, was quickly suspended for two weeks—a lighter punishment, I imagine, than the sheer embarrassment.

Ironically, the dust-up began with a vigorous discussion of censorship, the removal from eighth-grade reading lists by a Tennessee school board of Art Spiegelman’s Pulitzer Prizewinning graphic novel, “Maus: A Survivor’s Tale.”

The school board’s objection?

The novel, which uses handdrawn illustrations of animals as characters to illustrate his parents’ horrible experiences

as Polish Jews sent to Nazi concentration camps, contains some swear words and an illustration of nudity, which is hardly inappropriate for a story about a genocidal horror.

Ms. Goldberg’s offense was to insist repeatedly during the show last week that the Holocaust was “not about race.” Rather, she said, it was about “man’s inhumanity to man.”

No doubt. But Ms. Goldberg muddied her message by resist-

Clarence Page ing the notion that the “inhumanity” was racist, as well as antisemitic.

Co-host Joy Behar correctly argued that the Nazis “considered Jews a different race.”

And guest co-host Ana Navarro wasn’t far off in her assertion that “it’s about white supremacy.”

But Ms. Goldberg pushed back: “This is white people doing it to white people,” she said.

“So y’all going to fight amongst yourselves.”

Not quite. Not all Jews are white, for one thing. Second, there was no question that Hitler and Nazi beliefs targeted Jews as a dangerous “race” that should be exterminated.

“Racism was central to Nazi ideology,” the United States Holocaust Museum tweeted

Monday. “Jews were not defined by religion, but by race. Nazi racist beliefs fueled genocide and mass murder.”

So it was no wonder why Ms. Goldberg’s views on “The View” led to her making apologies for the rest of the day, including on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” where she said, “I’m very upset that people misunderstood what I was saying.”

She apologized at greater length the next day with Jonathan Greenblatt, chief executive officer of the Anti-Defamation League.

You know you’ve touched a lot of nerves when you have to apologize twice.

I don’t remember her apologizing this much, if at all, when Ted Danson, who she was dating at the time, showed up in blackface to roast her at a supposedly off-the-record Hollywood Friars Club roast in 1993.

But irreverence to conventional norms has long been part of her brand. I even defended her, among others, in the movie version of Alice Walker’s “The Color Purple” against Black critics who disliked its portrayal of Black-on-Black domestic abuse.

That’s art. That’s showbiz.

Call this Whoopi’s teachable moment. As a fellow African-American, I was less surprised than disappointed by her insensitivity to the pain and complexity of identity and hate

Diversity and the Federal Reserve Board “The Federal Reserve is our country’s most powerful economic policy institution. Twelve Fed leaders meet every six weeks to make decisions that include how many people should be unemployed and whether wages should be going up. Most of those leaders are white men who come from Wall Street.

We want the leadership of the Fed at all levels to be more diverse so it looks and thinks like the working people it is supposed to represent, not Wall Street.” — The Fed Up Campaign The Federal Reserve Board is one of the most powerful yet least-understood institutions in the American economy. It sets monetary policy to promote maximum employment and stable prices, monitors the safety and soundness of financial institutions and their impact on the financial system, and helps ensure a healthy economy for U.S. households, communities and businesses.

Given its enormous influence on every aspect of the economy, representation should look like the nation because the impact of its work touches every American.

President Biden’s three nominees, which include two women and two people of color, represent an enormous step forward in achieving this goal.

Michigan State University economist Dr. Lisa D. Cook, who would be the first Black women to serve on the board, is an internationally renowned

expert in economic growth and development, innovation, financial institutions and markets and economic history. Her groundbreaking research on economic disparities related to gender and race brings a sorely needed new perspective to the Fed’s efforts to curb inflation and support full

Marc H. Morial employment.

Sarah Bloom Raskin, a former deputy treasury secretary and governor of the Federal Reserve Board, was instrumental in pursuing innovative solutions to enhance Americans’ shared prosperity, the resilience of our country’s critical financial infrastructure, the defense of consumer safeguards in the financial marketplace.

Philip N. Jefferson, vice president for academic affairs and dean of faculty and the Paul B. Freeland Professor of Economics at Davidson College, would be the fourth Black man to serve on the Board of Governors. He previously served as chair of the Economics Department at Swarthmore College, where he was the Centennial Professor of Economics.

A diverse perspective on the Fed’s Board of Governors is critical to reducing racial gaps in wealth and income. Consider the fact that the board’s decisions are based on maintaining a certain level of unemployment — generally around 5 percent —but until recently it only ever considered the overall unemployment rate, ignoring the racial disparities that widen during recessions.

“Through the entire financial

crisis and recovery from the Great Recession, we never put a chart in front of the Board of Governors with the black-white unemployment rate — never,” economics Claudia Sahm, who worked at the Federal Reserve from 2007 to 2019, told Next City. “You kinda know certain groups are always hit harder in a recession, but it’s different when you stare at a line. We didn’t do that, they never saw that. They only ever saw the national employment rate.”

The Senate Banking Committee recently held its first hearing to consider these candidates. As expected, all three candidates illustrated what we’ve long known – that their impressive credentials, experience, keen intellect and deep understanding of macroeconomic policy would be an asset to our nation’s central bank should they be confirmed by the U.S. Senate.

Unfortunately, President Biden’s efforts to elevate highly qualified nominees who reflect the nation’s diversity have sparked an ugly, racially tinged backlash.

These conservatives don’t oppose these diverse nominations because they think they’re not qualified to shape economic policies that create opportunity for all Americans, but because they know they are.

A Federal Reserve Board of Governors that reflects the nation’s diversity is a positive step not just for marginalized communities, but for the nation as a whole. It’s also long overdue.

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

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at the intersection of racism and antisemitism.

These questions unfortunately have taken on a new life recently.

While Whoopigate boiled, the FBI announced six juveniles as persons of interest in a series of bomb threats that targeted historically Black colleges and universities.

The number of active hate groups in this country has declined during the past year, the Southern Poverty Law Center announced last week, but new white nationalist and neo-Nazi organizations are more spread out and no less dangerous.

And a bulletin from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security warns of a heightened threat across the nation from domestic violent extremists.

Yet, it has become fashionable in local school districts to demonize studies of America’s racial history and anything else that might cause students “discomfort,” even in high school. We need more teachable moments, lest we forget.

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What will the Black History Museum leave out with Confederate statues?

Re “Confederate pedestals out: Grass and landscaping to soon replace dead soldiers,” Free Press Feb. 3-5 edition: The Confederacy, like the truth, cannot be killed, but not for lack of trying. It may be vandalized, torn down, dumped in a sewage treatment plant and buried alive, but it will not die.

The Richmond Free Press reported that the City of Richmond has spent $3.36 million removing Richmond’s “Confederate flotsam and jetsam,” plus an additional undisclosed amount for the removal of the Lee monument.

The monuments are to be given to the Richmond-based Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia in order to bet-

ter spin the “Myth of American History.” In order to do so, I trust that the museum will not mention that “Honest Abe” Lincoln said he was not going to war against the South to free any slaves, or that his Emancipation Proclamation, issued two years later as a desperate war measure when the South was winning the war, plainly stated that slavery was all right as long as one were loyal to his government (proven the following summer when President Lincoln admitted the so-called “slave state” of West Virginia into the Union), or that slavery was constitutional in the United States throughout the war. That certainly punches holes in the story we are all supposed to believe.

I also trust that the museum will not men-

Youngkin’s orders parallel Germany after Holocaust There are a lot of parallels between Gov. Glenn A. Youngkin’s executive orders on race and post-Holocaust Germany.

After the war, Germans for the most part denied any involvement in the Holocaust, yet blamed the brutal defeat of Germany on the Jews as retaliation for Hitler’s treatment of them.

Gov. Youngkin is attempting to aid such denial by white Virginians through executive orders to ban the teaching of critical race theory. CRT and affirmative action, for that matter, pose no real threats to white people as he and others claim. Yet his goal is not only denial of history, but suppression of history.

Imagine if the German chancellor after World War II started issuing bans on teaching about the Holocaust. Slavery and Jim Crow laws were just as bad as the Holocaust. In fact, Hitler’s Nuremberg Laws were inspired by Jim Crow laws in the South.

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for the slaves he emancipated, he said to let them “root hog or die.” I’m sure the Black History Museum would not be interested in mentioning any of that, either. Better stick to the “Myth of American History” if they want to keep those monuments. Then peace, love, and diversity will flow like a river through the River City.

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Sports Stories by Fred Jeter

Gearing up for Sunday’s big game – Super Bowl LVI In looking for Super Bowl storylines, a good start might be the quarterbacks, the Cincinnati Bengals’ Joe Burrow and the Los Angeles Rams’ Matthew Stafford.

In one of the most dramatic turnarounds in NFL annals, Burrow has taken a team that was 6-25-1 during the past two years to football’s ultimate game.

The strong-armed former Louisiana State University star has the size, speed, smarts and, now we find out, style, to turn heads on the glitziest stage. Cameras were working overtime following “Joe Cool’s” postgame appearance against the favored Kansas City Chiefs.

Burrow’s bomber jacket/turtleneck/bling/shades ensemble was patterned after one of his heroes, actor Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson.

If there’s a more heart-warming human interest story than the rags-to-riches Bengals, it is rags-to-riches Stafford.

After 12 frustrating seasons with the downtrodden Detroit Lions, the former No. 1 draft pick out of Georgia has Joe seen his star shine just a few miles from Hollywood.

The Lions made the playoffs only three times during Stafford’s 12 seasons, going 0-3. By contrast, he is 3-0 with the Rams in just one playoff season.

When it comes to styling and profiling, few can top the Rams’ wideout Odell Beckham Jr., famous for his elaborate outfits, curly locks and one-handed catches.

Beckham’s big-play counterpart in Cincinnati is Ja’Marr Chase, who, like Burrow and Beckham, is a LSU alum.

The fifth overall pick a year ago, Chase has been spectacular with receptions covering 1,455 yards — 18 yards a catch—and 13 touchdowns. Swift and elusive, Chase is among the NFL leaders in YAC, Yards After Catch.

The Bengals have never won a Super Bowl and lost to San Francisco in both 1981 and 1988.

The Rams have one Super Bowl victory, a 1999 decision over Tennessee. However, that was when the Rams were playing in St. Louis. The Rams also have lost in the Super Bowl three times, including once while in St. Louis.

Now here’s the real oddity about Super Bowl LVI. After 54 years of never having a Super Bowl finalist play at home, now it has happened two years in a row.

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers won a year ago at its home Raymond James Stadium.

This year’s game will be at the Rams’ SoFi StaBurrow Matthew Stafford Odell Beckham Jr. Ja-Marr Chase dium.

And this is where it really gets weird.

Like Stafford, Beckham toiled in defeat with the New York The Bengals are the designated home team—it alternates Giants and Cleveland Browns before going to the Los Angeles from AFC to NFC each year—so they will use the Rams’ Rams in a mid-season deal.

Since arriving in L.A., he has 27 catches in seven games regular locker room.

Strangely, the hometown Rams will dress in the visitors with five touchdowns. Few are more capable of the “I-can’tlocker room. believe-my-eyes” catch than Beckham.

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Ny Langley is angling for All-CIAA as Lady Panthers continue mission to win Virginia Union University’s Ny Langley is making a bid for All-CIAA while helping the Lady Panthers gain momentum for the CIAA conference tournament.

A powerfully built 5-foot-10 junior from Greenville, N.C., Langley scored 10 points, snared 15 rebounds and passed for four assists on Feb. 5 in VUU’s 61-54 win over visiting Virginia State University.

The victory earned the Lady Panthers the trophy as champion of “The Battle for I-95” and avenged a loss to VSU in Ettrick last month.

Langley, who transferred to VUU from Cape Fear Community College in Wilmington, N.C., leads the Lady Panthers in scoring (12.6 points) and rebound (6.2) averages while logging about 31 minutes per contest.

She also is tops among VUU women in free throws attempted (84) and made (62).

The convincing win over VSU lifts the Lady Panthers to 6-11 overall and 4-7 in the CIAA, while VSU falls to 10-12 overall and 5-7 in the CIAA. The CIAA Tournament starts Feb. 22 in Baltimore.

VUU’s on a roll at home – and to CIAA Tournament Next up ...

T h u r s d a y, F e b . 1 0 Virginia Union University Panthers versus the Bowie State Bulldogs at Barco-Stevens Hall in on the VUU campus. Tipoff: Approximately 7:30 p.m., following the women’s game at 5:30 p.m.

Flores lawsuit against NFL may dominate Super Bowl parties This year’s Super Bowl is competing with what could be billed the “Suit’er Bowl” as the No. 1 topic among football fans.

It’s a prickly situation with accusations, denials and counteraccusations sailing like pigskins spiraling in all directions.

On Feb. 1, fired Miami Dolphins Coach Brian Flores sued the NFL, the Dolphins, the New York Giants and the Denver Broncos, alleging racism and violations of federal employment law and that his interviews were a sham meant only to fulfill the NFL’s Rooney Rule that a minority candidate be included in the finalists.

Flores was sent packing by Dolphins owner Stephen Ross after three seasons that produced records of 5-11, 10-6 and 9-8, but no playoffs.

The suit claims that text messages Flores received from New England Patriots Coach Bill Belichick, as well as additional media reports, show the New York Giants planned to hire Brian Daboll as the new head coach before interviewing any minority candidate as required by the Rooney Rule.

Flores also alleges Ross asked him to “tank,” or deliberately lose games, and offered him $100,000 per loss to help assure the Miami Dolphins had a higher draft pick, presumably quarterback Tua Tagovailoa out of the University of Alabama.

Additionally in the suit, Flores alleges Ross asked him to “tamper” with a quarterback (later determined to be Tom Brady) before that quarterback had free-agent status. Flores said he would not agree to those requests, angering the team owner.

Flores also alleges Denver Broncos executive John Elway conducted a sham interview with him in 2019 for a coaching position, meant only to

satisfy Rooney Rule requirements.

Ross, Elway and the Giants adamantly deny the charges.

In a Yardbarker interview, Ross called Flores’ allegations “false, malicious Brian Flores and defamatory.”

The Rooney Rule, named after former Pittsburgh Owner Dan Rooney, was installed by the NFL in 2003 to assure minority candidates were interviewed and given equal opportunity at coaching jobs.

Despite the mandated interviews, there is only one returning Black NFL head coach, the Pittsburgh Steelers’ highly successful Mike Tomlin. Another, the Houston Texans’ David Culley, was fired after this past regular season.

White coaches are no strangers to pink slips, either.

Other head coaches terminated from the 2021 list were Joe Judge of the New York Giants, Matt Nagy of the Chicago Bears, Vic Fangio of the Denver Broncos, Urban Meyer of the Jacksonville Jaguars, Jon Gruden of the Las Vegas Raiders and Mike Zimmer of the Minnesota Vikings. Also, Sean Payton resigned from the New Orleans Saints.

According to 2020 U.S. Census, about 12.4 percent of the nation’s population identifies as African-American. If NFL coaches were proportional to the census, there would be about 2.5 Black coaches.

More realistically, the NFL players are about 70 percent Black. If NFL coaches were proportional to the players, about 22 head coaches would be Black.

Before getting the Miami job, Flores was an assistant coach (most recently linebackers’ coach) for the New England Patriots from 2008 to 2018. He was

part of four Super Bowl titles with the Patriots.

Flores’ solid record with the Dolphins, after taking over a franchise that was 13-19 the two seasons before his arrival, makes his firing seem unfair. Surely, none of the legal issues would have come up at this time if Flores was still calling the shots in South Florida.

It makes any football fan wonder what is going on behind closed doors.

It was no secret billionaire Ross, 81, and Flores, 40, who is of Honduran ancestry and grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y., didn’t see eye to eye, so perhaps politics was a factor.

While Ross has contributed many millions to RISE (Ross Initiative in Sport Equality), an anti-racism program, he is also among Florida’s most deep-pocketed Republican donors. During the 2020 presidential race, Ross held a $250,000-aplate fundraiser for incumbent President Donald Trump. Flores has made it clear he is not a Trump fan.

People argue about politics all the time; there is no reason a coach and owner couldn’t fall into the same divisive trap.

Based on three seasons in Miami, Flores demonstrated he was a strong enough coach to deserve retention, not dismissal. After all, the Dolphins won seven straight games between Nov. 7 and Dec. 16, and eight of their last nine.

So now this football issue could be decided by a person in a black robe instead of by a referee with a whistle around his or her neck. Lawyers on both sides will argue their cases with the end result, hopefully, being an unbiased decision.

So on the cusp of football’s greatest spectacle, what are people chatting about while preparing their Super Bowl parties—Rams versus Bengals or Flores versus the NFL?

The countdown to Baltimore and the CIAA Tournament has begun, and few teams appear more prepared for takeoff than the Virginia Union University Panthers.

Coach Jay Butler’s North Siders have been racing on rocket fuel all season, with the CIAA tournament, Feb. 22 to 26, and eventually the NCAA Division II playoffs the desired landing spots.

Much to the delight of a spillover crowd of 2,054 fans on Feb. 5 at raucous Barco-Stevens Hall on the VUU campus, the Panthers routed rival Virginia State University 81-57 to claim the “Battle of I-95” trophy.

A suffocating, record-setting defense and a balanced offense were the keys, as usual, as the Panthers improved last week to 16-6 overall and 9-3 in the CIAA. VSU, which lost to VUU earlier this season in Ettrick, falls to 7-12 overall and 4-7 in the CIAA in a rare down season for Coach Lonnie Blow’s Trojans.

Earlier last week, the VUU defense (a mixture of full-floor pressure and match-up, 2-3 zone) set an all-time CIAA record by holding visiting Johnson C. Smith University to just 28 points in a 85-28 Panthers’ rout on Feb. 2.

The Trojans were nearly as inept trying to crack the “VUU-D” combination. VSU managed just one field goal in the first 15 minutes and wound up shooting just 28 percent with 20 turnovers. The score was 41-20 at halftime.

On attack, it seems the Panthers take turns being the leading scorer. Against VSU, it was Tyriek Railey as top gun with 13 points, followed by Tahj Harding and Jordan Peebles with 11 each.

In something of an “Octopi Offense,” the Panthers have eight players averaging at least six points, with Robbie Osborne No. 1 at 12 points. If someone is having an off night, there’s always reinforcement to take up the slack.

VUU boasts some of the greatest players in CIAA and HBCU annals in Mike Davis, Charles Oakley, Terry Davis, A.J. English and Ben Wallace, to name a few. The team’s current edition is more of a top-to-bottom treasure chest of talent, with many capable of shining brightest on any given night.

The Panthers’ 16-6 mark is oh-so-close to being much better. Three of the team’s losses have been in overtime, including an OT setback in December against Nova Southeastern University in Florida, the nation’s No. 2-ranked Division II outfit.

VUU extended its home court winning streak to 22 games and overall record to 17-6 on Monday evening with an 80-64 win over CIAA rival Claflin University of South Carolina.

Its record in the CIAA is now 10-3.

The Panthers hope to build the winning streak to 23 on Thursday, Feb. 10, against visiting Bowie State University.

The Panthers lost at Bowie State 65-61 on Jan. 19. That said, the Bulldogs are just 7-15 overall and coming off a 78-68 defeat Feb. 5 against Lincoln University.

All teams are in the home stretch of their seasons. The annual CIAA Tournament has moved to Baltimore following a 13-year run in Charlotte, N.C., where the conference is headquartered.

VUU will close its regular season on Saturday, Feb. 19, against Shaw University in Raleigh, N.C., before heading for Baltimore’s Royal Farms Arena for the tournament.

The Panthers last won the CIAA crown in 2018 in Coach Butler’s best season thus far.

But don’t count out Coach Blow’s Trojans. VSU prevailed under Coach Blow in 2016 and 2019. There was no tournament last year because of the pandemic. Winston-Salem State University is essentially the defending champ, having won the CIAA crown in 2020.

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The future will be built on the wings of giants.

Reducing carbon emissions is a big, complex challenge. And so it requires big, bold solutions. That’s why we’re building the largest offshore wind farm in the United States. The Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project will help turn Hampton Roads into a hub for wind power development. Once operational in 2026, CVOW will create over 1,000 jobs and generate more than $200 million a year in economic impact.

And, as a national leader in solar as well, we’re forging ahead to achieve our goal of net-zero emissions by 2050. Big challenges, meet bigger solutions.

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Love Stories 2022

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The Richmond Free Press proudly presents its annual Valentine’s Day feature sharing the love stories of four Richmond area couples.

Married 47 years

Married 2 years

Married 15 years

Dr. Archer L. and Viola O. Baskerville

LaTisha and Harry Lee Daniel III

Jason and Miwa Kamras

From blind date to years of wedded bliss

Second time around

Still grateful

We met on a blind date my freshman year at the College of William & Mary.

He was a first year medical student at the Medical College of Virginia, and his roommate was dating a friend at William & Mary.

The blind date was a bust.

During basketball season a few weeks later, he called and asked me out. After that, we started dating regularly.

Somewhere along the way, between the basketball game dates, movie dates and fun day trips in his 1965 Ford Mustang that had a radio which only played when you hit the dashboard, things started getting serious. During that summer, I met his family. He introduced me as “Viola Mae,” which really is not my name. However, I suppose he thought that would make me seem like a “homegirl.”

We continued dating through his medical school years and my postgraduate year abroad in Germany, trying to set individual professional goals while deciding next steps. It was not an easy task.

During Christmas of his internship year at the Mayo Clinic, he flew to Richmond to visit and ask my father for my hand in marriage. Knowing I would say, “Yes,” he purchased a one-way ticket for me to Rochester, Minn.

We were married 47 years ago in January on a Friday evening during a simple ceremony conducted by a minister with two witnesses. Six people attended our reception. The wedding cake was a re-decorated birthday sheet cake from the Piggly Wiggly supermarket.

Since then, we have navigated my law school days; his medical career, including a 40-year medical practice; raised two sons, Timothy and Sean; changed our residence 13 times; and weathered my very public career.

We have cultivated more than a relationship and partnership.

We are now truly each other’s best friend.

Dr. Baskerville, a cardiologist, is an associate clinical professor with MCV Physicians at VCU and a physician with the Capital Area Health Network. Mrs. Baskerville is a former member of Richmond City Council and the Virginia House of Delegates and served as state secretary of administration under former Gov. Tim Kaine.

LaTisha Daniel: I distinctly remember sitting in the middle of my cousin’s floor after our annual family Christmas Eve dinner. I was so intrigued by the retro Nintendo set and reliving my childhood Super Mario Bros. adventures that when Harry walked in, I barely looked up to see who had entered the room.

I remember saying a quick hello but didn’t give our initial encounter another thought.

So, imagine my surprise when I walk into a mutual friend’s house on New Year’s Day and guess who is sitting on the couch?

I immediately asked him if he was following me because I knew that I had just met him only seven days prior.

Being divorced a few years before, raising my daughter who was 6 at the time, working full-time as a registered nurse and pursuing another degree, dating was the last thing on my mind.

Sitting on the couch that afternoon talking about everything from college football, R&B music and life in general was the best chance meeting I had ever had.

Harry Daniel: The first time we met, I walked into my friend’s house after being invited to his annual family Christmas Eve dinner. I walk into his game room and my first sight was LaTisha sitting in the middle of the floor playing Nintendo.

I could see how focused she was trying to beat every level of the game. She finally looks up and sees me and we exchange a quick but pleasant hello.

On New Year’s Day, I decide to go to a mutual friend’s house to watch the College National Championship game and I see a little girl that looked oddly familiar to me. After inquiring whose daughter she was, in walks LaTisha and I instantly remember she was the woman I met a few days prior while playing Nintendo.

I knew that I couldn’t have two chance encounters with this person days apart and not at least ask for her phone number.

That day changed both our lives for the better. Now three years later, we both are so grateful for those two chance encounters.

Our lives have changed so much since those meetings three years ago. Having just celebrated two years of marriage on Jan. 3, we are both so happy that we gave love another chance!

Mrs. Daniel is a nurse with VCU Health System. Mr. Daniel is director of student activities at Highland Springs High School.

Every week or so, Miwa takes a few minutes to make a “Grateful List” — the ordinary moments she’s thankful for. Since we couldn’t be more grateful that we found each other, we decided to share a joint Grateful List for our Richmond Free Press Love Story: y Happening to sit next to each other at a D.C. Public Schools first year teacher training in1997 — and keeping the conversation going for the next 25 years (and counting!). y Getting engaged on a freezing cold December night when Jason was so nervous that he forgot his wallet at home and Miwa paid for dinner. y Planning an interfaith wedding that included a rabbi, a minister, a father/daughter dance to “Crocodile Rock” and 200 origami cranes folded by Miwa’s mom. y Sharing a tiny attic studio apartment in D.C. and eating most of our dinners sitting on the bed. y Deciding on our first son’s name years in advance and deciding on our second son’s name on the way to the hospital. y Learning the difference between excavators, feller bunchers and skid steers during our sons’ construction vehicles phase. y Learning how fast a peregrine falcon can fly in a stoop and all the places that salt water crocodiles live during our sons’ raptors and reptiles phase. y Learning how it feels to love your kids more than the whole entire universe. y Forgetting which anniversary we were celebrating last year because we’re super romantic. y Adopting a sweet, three-legged rescue pup named Jax after months of lobbying Jason to get a dog. y Loving Jason for his relentless optimism, immense patience, truly terrible dad jokes and the way his eyes crinkle when he smiles. y Loving Miwa for her boundless generosity, unfailing kindness, the encouraging notes she leaves all over the house for the boys and me and the way she laughs during the movie “Elf.” y Sitting next to each other at our kitchen table after a long day, making this Grateful List with the dishwasher running and middle school math homework happening and a feeling that there’s no place we’d rather be.

Mr. Kamras is superintendent of Richmond Public Schools.

Mrs. Kamras is a leadership coach.

Emmanuel and Jalyn’s love story began on the campus of James Madison University.

Jalyn was a contestant in the Miss Black and Gold Scholarship Pageant hosted by Emmanuel’s fraternity, Alpha Phi Alpha. She won the ultimate prize: True love.

After getting to know Emmanuel, Jalyn quickly realized that he was unlike any guy she’d ever met. As a Ghanaian immigrant, he was able to introduce Jalyn to a different culture, expand her food palate and, most of all, connect her with her roots in the Motherland.

Their worlds merged. In 2017, the pair traveled across the Atlantic to Accra, Ghana, where Jalyn was not only welcomed by Emmanuel’s family and friends, but by a nation of people who looked just like her.

This cultural exchange between the couple was not one-sided. As Emmanuel shared pieces of his Ghanaian background throughout their relationship, Jalyn also shared points from an American perspective — noting popular movies, hit songs and colloquial vernacular.

Jalyn moved to Richmond after graduating while Emmanuel developed his culinary career in Harrisonburg. After a couple of years of long-distance dating, the two decided to take the final step in their relationship—marriage.

On a chilly fall afternoon in 2018, they held a private ceremony in the company of family. Tears rolled down the couple’s faces as scriptures, vows and I do’s were said. This was undoubtedly the happiest day of their lives.

After moving to Richmond in 2019, Emmanuel decided to pursue his career as a private

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Happenings The history of AfricanAmericans remains obscured because of the effects of slavery and white supremacy. It’s this lack of information that Lawrence “Larry” Clark seeks to resolve as president of the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society’s Greater Richmond Chapter.

First elected in 2019, Mr. Clark is tasked with leading the chapter’s mission to bring to the public the knowledge, sense of discovery and selfawareness that he himself has experienced in genealogical studies in a city and state full of the untold histories he seeks to uncover.

“The city of Richmond is central to the history of AfricanAmericans in the United States,” Mr. Clark says. “Yet somehow throughout this history of racist activities in Richmond, our African-American ancestors were able to survive.

“With genealogy studies, we can learn about the survival of our ancestors, and we will be able to pass on these learnings for generations to come.”

Mr. Clark cites his late wife Patricia’s interest in exploring her own family history as the spark that “ignited the genealogy bug” in him. The two were among the many founders of AAHGS in Richmond in 2010.

“Since joining AAHGS, I have learned a wealth of information about my ancestors and the history of African-American families in general,” Mr. Clark says. “I am better informed on how our ancestors lived and, more importantly, how they survived through slavery, wars and Jim Crow laws.”

Seeking to expand access to genealogy in the Richmond area, Mr. Clark is working to grow the chapter’s membership, improve its use of technology and expand its work with community partners like the Richmond Public Library, the Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia and the Descendant Project at the

Personality: Lawrence ‘Larry’ Clark Spotlight on president of the Greater Richmond Chapter of the Afro-American Historical and Genealogicial Society University of Virginia.

With 80 members currently, the AAHGS Greater Richmond Chapter stands as one of the larger branches of the national organization, with virtual meetings during the pandemic allowing people with roots in the state but who live outside of Virginia to join the chapter’s discussions and workshops.

“I am committed to seeing our chapter continue on its successful path of sharing genealogical and historical information with the African-American community,” he says.

Meet a leader in exploring and documenting AfricanAmerican history and this week’s Personality, Lawrence “Larry” Clark: No. 1 volunteer position: President, Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society’s Greater Richmond Chapter.

Occupation: Retired in 2019 from CarMax Auto Stores after 15 years.

Date and place of birth: 1954 in Buffalo, N.Y. Where I live now: Henrico County.

Education: Bachelor’s in mathematics from City University of New York, Lehman College.

Family: I was married for 40 years before my wife, Patricia, died of cancer in 2014. I now live with my domestic partner, Artile White. I am a father of four, grandfather of 10 and great-grandfather of five.

Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society is: A Washington, D.C.-based organization that pursues scholarly and educational work on the genealogy and history of

African-Americans. The purpose of AAHGS is to provide a membership organization committed to the preservation of the history, genealogy and culture of the African ancestored populations of the local, national and international community.

AAHGS stresses the importance of our history and genealogy by encouraging active participation in recording research and documenting personal family histories.

When and where founded: AAHGS was founded in Washington in May 1977. The Greater Richmond Chapter was started in 2010.

Mission: The Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society, or AAHGS, is a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit that strives to preserve African-ancestored family history, genealogy and cultural diversity by teaching research techniques and dis-

seminating information throughout the community. Our primary goals are to promote scholarly research, provide resources for historical and genealogical studies, create a network of persons with similar interests and assist members in documenting their histories.

Number of chapters: AAHGS currently has 37 state chapters. Virginia has four chapters – Richmond, Newport News, Charlottesville and Danville.

Discoveries since joining AAHGS: Since joining AAHGS, I have learned a wealth of information about my ancestors and the history of AfricanAmerican families in general. I am better informed on how our ancestors lived and, more importantly, how they survived through slavery, wars, Jim Crow laws, etc. I have researched many of my family ancestors and have discovered the places where some of them were enslaved in Georgia. As I was researching my family, I was encouraged by receiving from another genealogist a picture of my great-greatgrandfather who was born a slave in 1850. Recently, I have been studying and learning more about DNA. I am now collecting the DNA of my family members. This work has led me to uncover DNA linkage with descendants of the white family that were my Georgia family’s enslavers.

COVID-19 and AAHGS: So as the pandemic has changed most of our lives, our chapter had to change, to move to virtually

Honoring leaders giving back to their communities During Black History Month, AARP recognizes leaders taking action to give back and help build up their communities.

Ify Nwabukwu, the founder of the African Women’s Cancer Awareness Association, provides community outreach that helps reduce disparities in education, resources and prevention of breast cancer for Black women in the Washington, DC Metro Area.

AARP believes the efforts of one person can truly make an impact. But when our efforts drive change for the greater good, we thrive together.

delivering our meetings and workshops. This has provided us the opportunity to reach out further to more partners and friends. Our virtual presentations have been well attended. We also have experienced an increase in members and interested parties who live outside the Richmond area. We now have members from Arizona, California, New Jersey, New York and Tennessee who have family roots in Virginia. And these lasts few months we are thankful to have participated in virtual joint presentations, working with some of our partners.

Importance of oral history: Oral history is of utmost importance. People should seek out their older relatives to understand the histories of their family. Much of the information that the elderly hold in their heads will not be available on any website or in any public documents. A crucial step of this process is to record the oral stories that your older relatives tell you. It is extremely easy for one to forget what they told you.

And, unfortunately, they will not be around forever.

Research challenges Black genealogists face: A major challenge African-American genealogists face is that, prior to 1865, most of our families were enslaved and there were few records documenting the names and relationships of enslaved people.

Even though this is a unique challenge forAfrican-Americans, there is information that can be found about our ancestors in the records of their white enslavers.

And nowadays, DNA helps to uncover the relationships between our ancestors and their enslavers’ families.

A perfect day for me: Sitting in a park setting or on a beach listing to jazz musicians perform.

Something I love to do that most people would never imagine: I watch all the various HGTV home remodeling and repair shows.

Quote that inspires me: “Ask yourself what makes you come alive and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” — Howard Thurman Friends describe me as: Kind, intelligent and somewhat introverted.

At the top of my “to-do” list: After the COVID-19 pandemic, travel to places where my ancestors lived.

Best late-night snack: Peanuts.

Best thing my parents ever taught me: Besides treating everyone with respect, that the obtaining of knowledge and education will lead to a fulfilling and successful life.

Person who influenced me the most: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Book that influenced me the most: “Caste” by Isabel Wilkerson.

What I’m reading now: “Guide to DNA Testing and Genetic Genealogy” by Blaine T. Bettinger.

Next goal: I am committed to seeing our chapter continue on its successful path of sharing genealogical and historical information with the AfricanAmerican community. And specifically, I look forward to greater efforts and more progress on the revitalization of the African-American cemeteries in the Greater Richmond area.

I think the efforts to establish a national memorial within the area of the Shockoe Burial Ground in Shockoe Bottom is critical to uncovering and raising up the stories of our AfricanAmerican ancestors.

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Obituary/Faith Directory The Rev. Charles Williams Jr., director of the Office for Black Catholics, dies at 70

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

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He graduated from BenedicThe Rev. Charles Williams tine High School and attended Jr., who led the Catholic Dio- Howard University before servcese of Richmond’s Office for ing in the U.S. Air Force. He later Black Catholics for three years, worked for nearly 30 years for has died.

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Hill, the religious retreat in “You have to be able to see Church Hill, then taught at the people that look like you and Blessed Sacrament Huguenot have someone to talk to if you Catholic School, served with feel a call to the religious life,” the Boaz & Ruth nonprofit in Rev. Williams said in a Free Highland Park and then minPress interview following his istered to families at Bliley’s appointment. “I want young, Funeral Homes, which handled interested African-Americans his funeral arrangements. to be able to know someone or Rev. Williams was ordained reach out to someone so they a permanent deacon for the can explore the options.” diocese by then-Bishop Francis Rev. Williams died Thursday, X. DiLorenzo in 2013. He was Jan. 27, 2022. He was 70. involved with prison ministry, His life was celebrated Bible study and the rite of Friday, Feb. 4, at the Cathedral Christian initiation for adults, of the Sacred Heart, where he as well as projects involving had served as a deacon since social and racial justice.

2013. Inurnment was at St. Rev. Williams “was a kind, Paul Catholic Church, where gentle man who was very giving Rev. Williams was an active with his time,” current Bishop member.

Barry C. Knestout stated. “He Born in Jackson Ward in 1951, immersed and engaged himself Rev. Williams attended the Van in multiple ministries within de Vyver School and the former our diocese as a chaplain and Saint Joseph’s Catholic Church, advocate for prison ministry

and racial healing. He will be deeply missed.”

As director of the office, he led walks on the Slave Trail in Richmond and earned plaudits as a speaker, teacher and writer on the Black Catholic experience, Black history in Virginia, pastoral care of Black Catholics and evangelization among Black people.

He also worked with Hope in the Cities and the Virginia Center for Inclusive Communities.

Survivors include his wife, Marie M. Williams; his son, Charles Williams III; two stepdaughters, Geneva Manion and Olivia Manion; his brother, David Williams; and two grandchildren.

The family requests memorial contributions be made to the St. Paul Catholic Church’s Youth Group Scholarship Fund, Richmond Hill and The Cathedral Preservation Fund.

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LaVerne was preceded in death by her parents and two of her siblings, Mildred Fountain Weekes and Hugh Fountain, Jr. She is survived by her daughter, Nedra Fountain Scott; son-in-law, Wilbert Scott; three grandchildren, Eric Scott (Kristye), Monica Scott Haynes (Leonard IV) and Carmen Scott; six great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild; siblings, Ellalee Flowers, Arlette Hill, Marie Fountain, Woodson Fountain and Eulalia Morris; as well as a host of nieces, nephews, cousins and friends.

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Her funeral service will take place on Saturday, February 12, at 11:00am, at Walter J. Manning Funeral Home. Those desiring to give a gift to honor her memory are encouraged to make a donation in her name to Virginia State University’s Tuition Assistance Fund.

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644-0496 City of Richmond, Virginia CITY COUNCIL PUBLIC NOTICE Notice is hereby given that the City of Richmond Planning Commission has scheduled a public hearing, open to all interested citizens, on Tuesday, February 22, 2022 at 1:30 p.m. and the Council of the City of Richmond has scheduled a public hearing on Monday, February 28, 2022 at 6:00 p.m. to consider the following ordinances: Ordinance No. 2022-021 To amend and reordain Ord. No. 2008-192-194, adopted Sept. 8, 2008, as previously amended

by Ord. No. 2009-45-125, adopted Jun. 22, 2009, which authorized the special use of the property known as 305 North 18th Street for the purpose of a mixed-use, multifamily dwelling and allowed the alteration of the design of the building, to modify the site plan and on-site parking requirements, upon certain terms and conditions. The City’s Richmond 300 Master Plan designates the future land use category for the subject property as Destination Mixed-Use. Primary Uses include: r e t a i l / o ff i c e / p e r s o n a l service, multi-family residential, cultural, and open space. Secondary Uses: Institutional and government.

Ordinance No. 2022-022 To authorize the special use of the property known as 1628 North 27th Street for the purpose of a single-family detached dwelling, upon certain terms and conditions.

The City’s Richmond 300 Master Plan designates the future land use category for the subject property as Neighborhood Mixed-Use. Primary Uses: Single-family houses, accessory dwelling units, duplexes, small multifamily buildings, and open space. Secondary Uses: Large multifamily buildings, retail/ office/personal service, institutional, cultural, and government.

Ordinance No. 2022-023 To authorize the special use of the property known as 2501 Berwyn Street for the purpose of a single-family detached dwelling, upon certain terms and conditions.

The City’s Richmond 300 Master Plan designates the future land use category for the subject property as Residential.

Primary Uses: Singlefamily houses, accessory dwelling units, and open space. Secondary Uses: Duplexes and small multifamily buildings (typically 3-10 units), institutional, and cultural. Secondary uses may be found along major streets.

Ordinance No. 2022-024 To authorize the special use of the property known as 1801 Carlisle Avenue for the purpose of two two-family detached dwellings, upon certain terms and conditions.

The City’s Richmond 300 Master Plan designates the future land use category for the subject property as Residential.

Primary Uses: Singlefamily houses, accessory dwelling units, and open space. Secondary Uses: Duplexes and small multi-family buildings (typically 3-10 units), institutional, and cultural.

Secondary uses may be found along major streets.

The proposed density is approximately 17 units per acre.

Ordinance No. 2022025 To authorize the special use of the properties known as 1505 West Cary Street and 1507 West Cary Street for the purpose of two twofamily attached dwellings, upon certain terms and conditions. The City’s Richmond 300 Master Plan designates the future land use category for the subject property as Community MixedUse. Primary Uses: Retail/office/personal service, multi-family residential, cultural, and open space. Secondary Uses: Single family houses, institutional, and government. The proposed density is approximately 38 units per acre.

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single-family detached dwelling, upon certain terms and conditions.

The City’s Richmond 300 Master Plan designates the future land use category for the subject property as Residential.

Primary Uses: Singlefamily houses, accessory dwelling units, and open space. Secondary Uses: Duplexes and small multi-family buildings (typically 3-10 units), institutional, and cultural.

Secondary uses may be found along major streets.

The proposed density is approximately 15 units per acre.

Ordinance No. 2022-027 To authorize the special use of the property known a s 3 4 11 H a w t h o r n e Avenue for the purpose of a single-family detached dwelling with an accessory dwelling unit, upon certain terms and conditions.

The City’s Richmond 300 Master Plan designates the future land use category for the subject property as Residential.

Primary Uses: Singlefamily houses, accessory dwelling units, and open space. Secondary Uses: Duplexes and small multi-family buildings (typically 3-10 units), institutional, and cultural.

Secondary uses may be found along major streets.

The proposed density is approximately 4 units per acre.

Ordinance No. 2022-028 To rezone the properties known as 601 Albany Avenue, 603 Albany Av e n u e , 6 0 0 M a u r y Street, and 610 Maury Street from the M-2 Heavy Industrial District to the TOD-1 Transit-Oriented Nodal District. The City’s Richmond 300 Master Plan designates the future land use category for the subject property as Destination Mixed-Use. Primary Uses include: r e t a i l / o ff i c e / p e r s o n a l service, multi-family residential, cultural, and open space. Secondary Uses: Institutional and government.

The meetings will be held through electronic communication means pursuant to the current ongoing declaration of a local emergency concerning the COVID-19 pandemic confirmed by Res. No. 2020-R025, adopted March 16, 2020, and as permitted by section 2.2-3708.2(A)(3) of the Virginia Freedom of Information Act. The meetings will be open to participation through electronic communication means by the public and closed to in-person participation by the public.

Less than a quorum of Richmond City Planning Commission members and Richmond City Council will assemble in City Hall, located at 900 East Broad Street, Richmond, Virginia, and most members and other staff will participate by teleconference/ videoconference via Microsoft Teams.

The meetings will be streamed live online at the following web address: https://richmondva. legistar.com/Calendar. a s p x . To w a t c h a meeting’s live stream at the web address provided, find and click the link that reads, “In Progress” in the farthest right hand column entitled, “Video”.

The agenda for the Richmond City Council meeting is accessible through the City’s legislative website at the following web address: https://richmondva. legistar.com/Calendar. aspx. To view the agenda at the web address provided, find and click the link that reads, “Agenda” associated with the February 28, 2022 Richmond City Council Formal meeting listed in the calendar.

Interested citizens who wish to speak at the Richmond City Council meeting will be given an opportunity to do so by following the public participation instructions provided on the February 28, 2022 Richmond City Council Formal meeting agenda.

Citizens are encouraged to provide their comments in writing to CityClerksOffice@rva. gov in lieu of commenting by teleconference or video conference. The person responsible for receiving comments in writing is Candice D. Reid, City Clerk. All comments received prior to 10:00 a.m. on Monday, February 28, 2022, will be provided to Council members prior to the meeting and will be included in the record of the meeting.

Copies of the full text of all ordinances are available by visiting the City Clerk’s page on the City’s Website at https://www.rva.gov/ office-city-clerk.

Candice D. Reid City Clerk

Divorce VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CHRISTINA JOELLE WILLIAMS, PLAINTIFF, v.

CALEB RAMHEL WILLIAMS, DEFENDANT. CASE No. CL21-5418-6 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce from the bond of matrimony, from the defendant, on the ground that the parties hereto have lived separate and apart continuously, without cohabitation and without interruption for more than one year.

And it appearing from an affidavit that the whereabouts and address of the defendant are unknown and that he may not be a resident of Virginia, it is Ordered that the defendant appear before this Court on March 18, 2022, at 9:00 am o’clock pursuant to this notice and protect his interest herein.

An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER JAQUELINE MEJIA, Plaintiff v.

MICHELE MARCANO LOPEZ, Defendant.

Case No.: CL22000174-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce from the bond of matrimony from the defendant on the ground of living separate and apart without any cohabitation and without interruption for a period exceeding twelve months.

It is ORDERED that the defendant, whose whereabouts are unknown, appear here on or before the 17th day of March, 2022 at 9:00 AM and protect his interests.

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

CORY NOUIOUA, Defendant.

Case No.: CL21003899-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce from the bond of matrimony from the defendant on the ground of living separate and apart without any cohabitation and without interruption for a period exceeding twelve months.

It is ORDERED that the defendant, who is not a resident, appear here on or before the 16th day of March, 2022 and protect his interests.

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

KIMBERLY HINES, Defendant.

Case No.: CL22000079-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce from the bond of matrimony from the defendant on the ground of living separate and apart without any cohabitation and without interruption for a period exceeding twelve months.

It is ORDERED that the defendant, whose whereabouts are unknown, appear here on or before the 10th day of March, 2022 at 9:00 AM and protect her interests.

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

TANISHA ODUYEMI, Defendant.

Case No.: CL22000080-00 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.

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It is ORDERED that the defendant, whose whereabouts are unknown, appear here on or before the 10th day of March, 2022 at 9:00 AM and protect her interests.

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

2300 Ford Avenue E0000756001 2703 Grayland Avenue W0001198005 3223 Idlewood Avenue W0001506004 2209 Lamb Avenue N0000491001 2500 North Lombardy Street N0000690022 514 West Marshall Street N0000241029 3609 Maryland Avenue N0001269018 3061 Meadow Bridge Road N0001065002 3006 Montrose Avenue N0000968019 3037 Montrose Avenue N0001034049 3108 Moss Side Avenue N0160203025 2013 North Avenue N0000406015 1316 Oakwood Avenue E0001104028 6521 Patterson Avenue W0210130011 616 South Pine Street W0000161014 2214 Seminary Avenue N0000587013 1602 Wilmington Avenue N0001740017 The owner/s of any property listed may redeem it at any time before the date of the sale by paying all accumulated taxes, penalties, interest and cost thereon, including the pro rata costs of publication hereunder.

Gregory A. Lukanuski, Deputy City Attorney Office of the City Attorney for the City of Richmond 900 East Broad Street, Room 400 Richmond, Virginia (804) 646-7949

V.S.B. # 25325 Jason L. Shaber, Esq., V.S.B.96186 Kyle Roberts, Esq. V.S.B #95631 DANKOS, GORDON & TUCKER, P.C. 1360 E. Parham Road, Suite 200 Richmond, Virginia 23228 Telephone: (804) 377-7424 Facsimile: (804) 262-8088 Email: cgordon@ dankosgordon.com Email: jshaber@ dankosgordon.com Email: kroberts@ dankosgordon.com Counsel for Plaintiffs

OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v.

DAJE, LLC, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL22-211 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 2203 Brook Road, Tax Map Number N000-0628/019, Richmond, Virginia, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, DAJE, LLC. An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, DAJE, LLC, an entity listed as inactive in 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 DAJE, LLC, an entity listed as inactive in the records of the Virginia State Corporation Commission, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before MARCH 31, 2022 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 804-646-7949

forward to appear on or before MARCH 31, 2022 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 804-646-7949

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HENRICO CRESSA HUGHES, Plaintiff v.

MATTHEW HUGHES, Defendant.

Case No.: CL21-7594 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit, brought by Cressa Hughes, is a complaint for divorce.

It appearing from an affidavit that the Defendant, Matthew Hughes, cannot be found, and that due diligence has been used without effect to ascertain the location of the Defendant, it is hereby ORDERED that the Defendant appear before this Court on or before the 21st day of February, 2022, to protect his/her interest herein.

An Extract Teste: HEIDI S. BARSHINGER, Clerk VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER NAPOLION GETACHEW ABEBE, Plaintiff v.

MAHLET SOLOMON Defendant.

Case No.: CL22000053-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce from the bond of matrimony from the defendant on the ground of living separate and apart without any cohabitation and without interruption for a period exceeding twelve months.

It is ORDERED that the defendant, whose whereabouts are unknown, appear here on or before the 8th day of March, 2022 at 9:00 AM and protect her interests.

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

CUSTODY VIRGINIA: IN THE JUVENILE AND DOMESTIC RELATIONS DISTRICT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND Commonwealth of Virginia, in re Henry le & maggie rodriguez RDSS v.

Unknown father File No. JJ098676-07-00, JJ098677-07-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to: Terminate the residual parental rights (“TPR”) of Unknown Father of Henry Le, child DOB 06/17/2011 & Maggie Rodriguez, child DOB 10/16/2012.

“TPR” 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 to appear at the abovenamed Court and protect his/her interest on or before 05/27/2022, at 9:00 AM, Courtroom #1.

PROPERTY Notice Judicial Sale of Real Property Owner/s of the below listed properties are hereby given notice that thirty (30) days from the date of this notice, proceedings will be commenced under the authority of Section 58.13965 et seq. of the Code of Virginia to sell the following parcels located in the City of Richmond, Virginia for payment of delinquent taxes: 1911 2nd Avenue N0000500014 1905 North 22nd Street E0001239003 606 North 23rd Street E0000292013 306 North 26th Street U205 E0000385075 3 East 35th Street S0002292012 901 North 36th Street E0001279001 909 North 36th Street E0001279008 2709 Barton Avenue N0000705004 1216 East Brookland Park Boulevard N0000987013 1422 Carlisle Avenue E0002812010 1401 Carter Street W0000792011 2100 Decatur Street S0000407005 304 Dundee Avenue S0002150006 2804 Dupont Circle N0000769008 Continued on next column

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF HENRICO COUNTY HARRY SALANECK; MICHELE BUDICH OZKAN; THOMAS KUSPIS; RICHARD KUSPIS; GORDON T. NAIRN; M. JOHN NAIRN; PETER SALANECK; THEODORE SALANECK; JULIA SALANECK BRITT; JONI KUSPIS WEGNER; KENNETH NANNEY; GLENN NANNEY; JOHN SALANECK, III Plaintiffs, v.

JOHN STOLAR, JR.; DEBORAH A. SHADE; LYNN STOLAR KOPSIE; MARY URSULAK GALLAGHER; THE COUNTY OF HENRICO, VIRGINIA; ANDRE STOLAR; PARTIES UNKNOWN; and The Unknown heirs, descendants, devisees, assigns, and/ or successors in title to Dane Terry Hilbert, Edward Salaneck, Sr., William Salaneck, Sr., Karen N. Hilbert, Ivan Hodich, Julia Hodich, Mary Hodich, Franklin H. Moore, John Ursulak, Frank Ursulak, Russell J. Hilbert, if any there be, the consorts of any of the said unknown heirs who are married, the lien creditors of the said unknown heirs, if any,) and other persons who may have an interest in the subject matter of this suit, whose names are unknown and are included in the general description of “UNKNOWN HEIRS and PARTIES UNKNOWN” Defendants.

Case No.: CL22-152 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to sell a certain parcel of real property situated in Henrico County, Virginia, being originally owned by Dane Terry Hilbert and more particularly described as follows: All that certain lot, piece or parcel of land, with all improvements thereon and appurtenances thereto belonging, lying and being in Tuckahoe Magisterial District, Henrico County, Virginia, known and designated as Lot 6, Block A, on the Plan of Sterling Court made by Chas H. Fleet & Associates, Civil Engineers and Surveyors, dated July 10, 1956, recorded June 13, 1957, in the Clerk’s Office, Circuit Court, Henrico County, Virginia, in Plat Book 29, page 16, to which plat reference is hereby made for a more particular description of the property.

Andre Stolar, Unknown Heirs, and Parties Unknown, devisees, and/or successors in title to Dane Terry Hilbert, Edward Salaneck, Sr., William Salaneck, Sr., Karen N. Hilbert, Ivan Hodch, Julia Hodich, Mary Hodich, Franklin H. Moore, John Ursulak, Frank Ursulak, Russell J. Hilbert, may have an interest in the property by deed, by inheritance, or by duly recorded liens.

Affidavit having been made and filed that due diligence has been used without effect to ascertain the identities and/or locations of certain parties to be served, and that there are or may be persons whose names are unknown, interested in the subject matter of this suit; It is ORDERED that Andre Stolar, et al., if then living or if dead, their heirs, devisees, assigns, or successors in title, and other unknown heirs or parties who have an interest in the subject matter of this suit, who are proceeded against as Unknown Heirs and Parties Unknown, appear before Court on or before the 28th of March, 2022 to protect their interests, if any, in this suit.

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

1420 NORTH 25TH STREET LAND TRUST, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL21-5403 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 1420 North 25th Street, Tax Map Number E000-0710/001 Richmond, Virginia, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, 1420 North 25th Street Land Trust.

An Affidavit having been filed that said C. ADRENA JOHNSON, TRUSTEE for 1420 NORTH 25TH STREET LAND TRUST, 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 C. ADRENA JOHNSON, TRUSTEE for 1420 NORTH 25TH STREET LAND TRUST, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before MARCH 31, 2022 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 804-646-7949 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v.

NATHANIEL L. RIVERS, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL21-5402 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 1704 North 19th Street, Tax Map Number E012-0282/033, Richmond, Virginia, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Nathaniel L. Rivers, Irene R. Lewis, Ronald Lee Rivers and Randy David Rivers.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, NATHANIEL L. RIVERS, 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, IRENE R. LEWIS, 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 RONALD LEE RIVERS and RANDY DAVID RIVERS who may have an ownership interest in said property, who have been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to their last known address, have not been personally located and have not filed a response to this action; and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.”

IT IS ORDERED that NATHANIEL L. RIVERS, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, IRENE R. LEWIS, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, RONALD LEE RIVERS, RANDY DAVID RIVERS, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before MARCH 31, 2022 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

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

J W PROPERTY AND INVESTMENT COMPANY, LLC, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL21-5380 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 4024 Sharon Court, Tax Map Number S000-2923/025, Richmond, Virginia, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, J W Property and Investment Company, LLC. An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, J W P RO P ER T Y A N D INVESTMENT COMPANY, LLC, James C. Whitehurst, Registered Agent, 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 J W P RO P ER T Y A N D INVESTMENT COMPANY, LLC, James C. Whitehurst, Registered Agent, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before MARCH 31, 2022 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 804-646-7949 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v.

HNH RENTONE, LLC, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL21-5379 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 22 West Roanoke Street, Tax Map Number S000-2915/019, Richmond, Virginia, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, HNH Rentone, LLC. An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, HNH RENTONE, LLC, Harley Hensley, Registered Agent, which has been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to the registered agent’s 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 HNH RENTONE, LLC, Harley Hensley, Registered Agent, and Parties Unknown, come Continued on next column

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

AMANDA J. KELLYMORRIS, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL21-4862 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 2102 Wood Street, Tax Map Number E000-1056/019, Richmond, Virginia, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Amanda J. Kelly-Morris, Melvaughan E. Cottman and Cotina Cottman.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owners, AMANDA J. KELLY-MORRIS, and COTINA COTTMAN, who have been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to their last known address, have not been personally located and have not filed a response to this action; that said owner, MELVAUGHAN E. COTTMAN 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.”

I T I S OR D ERE D that AMANDA J. KELLYM ORRI S , CO T I N A COTTMAN, MELVAUGHAN E. COTTMAN and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before MARCH 31, 2022 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 804-646-7949 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v.

RIVER CITY PROPERTY SHOP, LLC, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL21-5071 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 2308 Warwick Avenue, Tax Map Number S007-1679/006, Richmond, Virginia, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, River City Property Shop, LLC. An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, RIVER CITY PROPERTY SHOP, LLC, an entity listed as inactive in the records of the Virginia State Corporation Commission, the owner of record of said property, has not been located and has not filed a response to this action; that 39 FOREVER, LLC, Beneficiary of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 16-3849 on March 2, 2016, Nancy Ann Rogers, Registered Agent, 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 RIVER CITY PROPERTY SHOP, LLC, an entity listed as inactive in the records of the Virginia State Corporation Commission, 3 9 F OREVER , L L C , Beneficiary of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 16-3849 on March 2, 2016, Nancy Ann Rogers, Registered Agent, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before MARCH 31, 2022 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

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Plaintiff, v.

BRENDA B. TRIBETT, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL21-4839 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 3816 Terminal Avenue, Tax Map Number C009-0505/004, Richmond, Virginia, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, name Brenda B. Tribett.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, BRENDA B. TRIBETT, 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 BRENDA B. TRIBETT, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before MARCH 31, 2022 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 804-646-7949

John Marshall Courts Building CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v.

CAESAR E SAN JOSE LUNA, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL21-4772 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 4525 Old Warwick Road, Tax Map Number C008-0307/014, Richmond, Virginia, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Caesar E San Jose Luna.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, CAESAR E SAN JOSE LUNA, 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 CAESAR E SAN JOSE LUNA, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before MARCH 31, 2022 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 804-646-7949

MARCH 31, 2022 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 804-646-7949

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 MARCH 31, 2022 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 804-646-7949

RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v.

ITHIEL GROUP, LLC, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL22-290 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 3413 Delano Street, Tax Map Number C009-0561/018, Richmond, Virginia, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Ithiel Group, LLC. An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, ITHIEL GROUP, LLC, an entity listed as inactive in 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 ITHIEL GROUP, LLC, an entity listed as inactive in the records of the Virginia State Corporation Commission, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before MARCH 31, 2022 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 804-646-7949

Virginia State Corporation Commission, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before MARCH 31, 2022 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 804-646-7949

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

BRENDA B. TRIBETT, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL21-4838 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 3812 Terminal Avenue, Tax Map Number C009-0505/002, Richmond, Virginia, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, name Brenda B. Tribett.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, BRENDA B. TRIBETT, 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 BRENDA B. TRIBETT, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before MARCH 31, 2022 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 804-646-7949 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND Continued on next column

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

REUBEN B. GREENE, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL21-4771 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 3103 Noble Avenue, Tax Map Number N016-0203/015, Richmond, Virginia, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Reuben B. Greene and Lillian E. Greene.

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

IT IS ORDERED that REUBEN B. GREENE and LILLIAN E. GREENE, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before Continued on next column

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

1708 E. MAIN STREET LAND TRUST, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL21-3904 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 1708 East Main Street, Tax Map Number E000-0108/032, Richmond, Virginia, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, 1708 E. Main Street Land Trust.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, 1708 E. MAIN STREET LAND TRUST, RJR Ventures, LLC, Trustee, Rodney Peterson, Registered Agent for RJR Ventures, who has been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to his last known address, 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 1708 E. MAIN STREET LAND TRUST, RJR Ventures, LLC, Trustee, Rodney Peterson, Registered Agent for RJR Ventures, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before MARCH 31, 2021 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 804-646-7949 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v.

DYNQUEST PROPERTIES, LLC, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL21-4743 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 3212 Lawson Street, Tax Map Number S000-2134/020, Richmond, Virginia, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Dynquest Properties, LLC. 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 Continued on next column

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

RIVER CITY PROPERTY SHOP, LLC, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL21-5314 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 2208 Harwood Street, Tax Map Number S007-1179/003, Richmond, Virginia, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, River City Property Shop, LLC. An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, RIVER CITY PROPERTY SHOP, LLC, an entity listed as inactive in the records of the Virginia State Corporation Commission, has not been located and has not filed a response to this action; that 39 FOREVER, LLC, Beneficiary of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 15-19801 on October 15, 2015, Nancy Ann Rogers, Registered Agent, 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/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 RIVER CITY PROPERTY SHOP, LLC, an entity listed as inactive in the records of the Virginia State Corporation Commission, 39 FOREVER, LLC, Beneficiary of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 15-19801 on October 15, 2015, Nancy Ann Rogers, Registered Agent, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before MARCH 31, 2022 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 804-646-7949 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF Continued on next column

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

201 WEST BROOKLAND PARK, LLC, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL22-215 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 201 West Brookland Park Boulevard, Tax Map Number N0000887/001, Richmond, Virginia, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, 201 West Brookland Park, LLC. An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, 201 WEST BROOKLAND PARK, LLC, an entity listed as inactive in 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 201 WEST BROOKLAND PARK, LLC, an entity listed as inactive in the records of the

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LICENSE Crab Du Jour of Norfolk Inc. Trading as: Crab Du Jour 2301 W Hundred Road Chester, Virginia The above establishment is applying to the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage C ontrol (ABC) AUTHORITY for a Wine & Beer, Mixed Beverage on Premises license to sell or manufacture alcoholic beverages.

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

The Rich Wine House LLC Trading as: Pennys Wine Shop 405 Brook Rd Richmond, Virginia 23220 The above establishment is applying to the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage C ontrol (ABC) AUTHORITY for a Wine and Beer On and Off Premises license to sell or manufacture alcoholic beverages.

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

RichWine LLC Trading as: RichWine 405 Brook Rd Richmond, Virginia 23220 The above establishment is applying to the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage C ontrol (ABC) AUTHORITY for a Internet Wine Retailer license to sell or manufacture alcoholic beverages.

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

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