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Mrs. Obama: Husband Knows What Struggle Means CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Democrats are using one of Barack Obama’s strong suits, that voters believe he understands the problems of ordinary people, to trump his weakest suit, the economy.

Michelle Obama played those cards with force in a speech declaring that after four years as president, her husband is still the man who drove a rust-bucket on early dates, rescued a coffee table from the trash and knows the struggles of everyday Americans because he lived them in full.

“I have seen firsthand that being president doesn’t change who you are, it reveals who you are,” the first lady said to lusty cheers Tuesday night in a deeply personal, yet unmistakably political testimonial highlighting the Democratic National Convention’s opening night.

Bill Clinton, the last president to preside over sustained economic growth and a balanced budget, gets the star turn Wednesday night in a speech placing Obama’s name into nomination — a high point in a checkered relationship between Continued on A6

Enthusiastic convention attendees

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Hunter-Reay Wins 2012 Grand Prix of Baltimore

By Perry Green AFRO Sports Editor

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American driver Ryan Hunter-Reay captured the IndyCar Series penultimate crown in the second annual Grand Prix of Baltimore on a rainy Sunday, Sept. 2 at the Inner Harbor of downtown Baltimore, Md. Hunter-Reay, a 28-yearold driver for DHL and Andretti Autosport team, won first place after stealing the lead from Australian driver Ryan Briscoe with just four laps left. Season points leader Will Power, who won last year’s Baltimore Grand Prix, finished in sixth place, a disappointment after being favored to win the race.

Hunter-Reay now trails Power in total season points by only 17 points in the chase for the season crown.

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“That was probably the toughest race I’ve ever driven. I don’t have nothing left in me; I can barely talk,” said Hunter-Reay, winning his fourth race of the 2012 IndyCar Series season. “It was a great race and I’m just happy to be able to pull out the victory.”

Simona de Silvestro, one of three women IndyCar Series drivers who performed at this year’s Baltimore Grand Prix, celebrated her 24th birthday on Sept. 1. She finished in 22nd place.

Before the IndyCar Series penultimate race began, Baltimore native and famous African-American

R&B singer Mario sang the National Anthem. He then handed the microphone over to U.S. Army Col. Gregory Gadson, an African-American active duty soldier who lost both his legs to a roadside bomb in Baghdad in 2007and the honorary grand marshal for the race. Gadson shouted out the famous phrase: “Start your engines,” signifying the start of the race.

“I had a lot of fun,” said Sharon Sheldon, who traveled from Greenbelt, Md. with her twin sister, Karon Sheldon, to watch the race. “This was our first time coming out to watch a motorsports race live and we had a blast.”

Baltimore mechanics David Smith and Milton Sprules attended the Grand Prix of Baltimore for the second straight year.

“It’s been just as exciting this year as it was last year,” said Sprules. “I’m a mechanic so I love this stuff.”

Grill Master Karlton Grimes told the AFRO that the Grand Prix of Baltimore has been great for business as he worked the grill for a local vendor right outside of the racetrack. This was the second year Grimes put his cooking skills to work for the Baltimore Grand Prix.

“Last year, I grilled Continued on A5

Ryan Hunter-Reay captured the crown in the second annual Grand Prix of Baltimore.

MGM, Penn National Pumping Churches Battle UMC Millions Into Casino Debate

By Alexis Taylor Special to the AFRO

By George Barnette AFRO Staff Writer

Rev. Douglas Sands is standing his ground, despite being ordered to move out of his church last November.

Less than a year has gone by since White Rock Church members decided to end their relationship with the BaltimoreWashington Conference of the United Methodist Church (UMC) because they disagreed with the treatment of African American churches and smaller congregations within the denomination.

The congregation was told by Bishop John R. Schol, then the head of the Baltimore-Washington Conference, that if they wanted to break ties they could. If they walked, however, they would have to leave behind the building and the surrounding property even though the UMC neither helped clear, pave, build or maintain the church, which was founded by former slaves in 1868, or its land.

“We’re just simply not going to move,” said Sands, 78, a long time civil rights advocate who was instrumental in helping to desegregate lunch Photo by Avis Thomas-Lester counters and Rev. Douglas Sands public facilities Continued on A6

Penn National Gaming and MGM Resorts International are spending millions of dollars in the fight over a possible National Harbor Casino.

According to campaign finance reports seen by the AFRO on the Maryland Board of Elections web site, Penn National Gaming has contributed nearly $5.5 million to Get the Facts Vote No On 7, a group running negative ads against a National Harbor casino. According to Penn National officials, the group is fighting because it feels the playing field is uneven in the competition over gambling.

“Our opposition comes from the fact that the deck is stacked against us and that a fair and competitive bid process will not be in place for the Prince George’s location,” said Penn National spokeswoman Karen

Bailey. “Given that [County Executive Rushern L. Baker, III] has thrown all his support behind National Harbor and the state’s study of revenues has only been for a location at National Harbor, we feel like the deck is stacked in favor of a National Harbor

location.”

Penn National purchased the failing Rosecroft Raceway in early 2011. In purchasing the property, the group said it wanted to bring slots to the facility. Penn National had even begun to lobby the Maryland General Assembly to bring gaming to Rosecroft. However, Prince George’s County Executive Rushern L. Baker III stepped in and introduced his plan

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to attract a high-end resort casino at National Harbor.

Penn National officials has since criticized the process from which the referendum surfaced and says the concessions made by Maryland to casino owners will reduce the amount of tax dollars Marylanders would’ve seen had Rosecroft been a part of the process.

“Prior to the August legislative special session, we proposed an investment of $500 million at our Rosecroft facility at the current 67% tax rate,” Tim Wilmott, president and COO of Penn National; Bill Hayles, vice president and general manager of Hollywood Casino in Perryville; and Lisa Watts, director of operations at Rosecroft, said in a letter dated Aug. 30. “Over time this would have generated more revenue for the state than the combination of a 6th casino and the tax breaks Continued on A5

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Contrary to that statement however, McDaniel said the recent fire was extinguished using a fire hose from firefighters who climbed the building.

In May, a fire roared through the studio requiring 100 firefighters to help douse the blaze. The recent fire was considerably less damaging and caused no injuries. McDaniel said the cause of that earlier fire is still undetermined.

The studio has been open for four years and is where Perry has produced many of his recent Madea films. In March, he hosted a fundraiser for President Obama at the facility.

Michelle Obama, Fictional Semi-Nude on Magazine Cover, Ignites Critics

A Spanish magazine’s depiction of Michelle Obama as a slave with one breast exposed has stirred up an old controversy about the depiction of Black women in popular culture Taken from the “Famous Nudes” series done by artist Karine Percheron-Daniels, the August cover of Fuera de Serie has critics debating whether the image choice was meant to be a political statement or merely an attention-grabber; whether it is an offense or simply art.

In the painting, the first lady’s face is overlaid on the 1800 “Portrait d’une négresse,” which some art commentators say was a statement on the end of Emancipation and the nascent feminist movement in early 19th century France.

Created by French artist Marie-Guillemine Benoist, the painting depicts a female French slave in a headdress and white gown, one breast exposed. In Percheron-Daniel’s version, the

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Michelle Obama portrayed in this Spanish magazine as a 19th-century French slave. first lady is also draped in an American flag.

In an explanation of their cover story, the magazine called Michelle Obama the “gran mujer” (great woman) behind the history-making U.S. president, Barack Obama.

“In the shadow of the U.S. President is a person whose popularity ratings exceed those of Barack’s own. This person is none other than his wife Michelle… To find out how Michelle has managed to seduce the American people . . . [we] detail the secrets of a woman [who] has not only won the heart of Barack Obama,” an except reads.

Some critics say, however, that the image is another racist, misogynist objectification of Black women.

“I find the editorial decision to portray Obama as the embodiment of enslavement and colonization extremely troubling,” especially since the image undermines the story, wrote Althea Legal-Miller in Clutch magazine.

For her part, Percheron-Daniel said her painting was not meant to offend, and was more of a compliment.

Tyler Perry Studios Catch Fire Again

A building on the campus of Tyler Perry’s movie studio caught fire on Aug. 27 making it the second time this year that a fire erupted at the Atlanta studio.

Atlanta Fire Department spokeswoman Capt. Marian McDaniel told the AFRO the official cause of the fire was careless smoking.

McDaniel said that it was started when a laborer working on a roof of a building being renovated on Perry’s studio lot, lit a cigarette. Fire from a burning cigarette ignited tar Courtesy Wikimedia Commons and roof tarp and the blaze escalated.

Tyler Perry Perry’s representative released a statement following the blaze indicating that there was only superficial damage to the studio and no one was hurt.

“There was a small fire which was quickly and easily put out via fire extinguisher without incident,” said Perry’s

Actor Michael Clarke Duncan Dead at 54

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Michael Clarke Duncan, the hulking, prolific character actor whose dozens of films included an Oscar-nominated performance as a death row inmate in “The Green Mile” and such other box office hits as “Armageddon,” ‘’Planet of the Apes” and “Kung Fu Panda,” is dead at age 54.

Clarke died Monday morning at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, where he was being treated for a heart attack, said his fiancée, Reverend Omarosa Manigault, in a statement released by publicist Joy Fehily.

The muscular, 6-foot-4 Duncan, a former bodyguard who turned to acting in his 30s, “suffered a myocardial infarction on July 13 and never fully recovered,” the AP Photo Michael Clarke Duncan statement said. “Manigault is grateful for all of your prayers and asks for privacy at this time. Celebrations of his life, both private and public, will be announced at a later date.”

In the spring of 2012, Clarke had appeared in a video for PETA, the animal rights organization, in which he spoke of how much better he felt since becoming a vegetarian three years earlier.

“I cleared out my refrigerator, about $5,000 worth of meat,” he said. “I’m a lot healthier than I was when I was eating meat.”

Duncan had a handful of minor roles before “The Green Mile” brought him an Academy Award nomination for best supporting actor. The 1999 film, based on the Stephen King novel of the same name, starred Tom Hanks as a corrections officer at a penitentiary in the 1930s. Duncan played John Coffey, a convicted murderer with a surprisingly gentle demeanor and extraordinary healing powers.

Duncan’s performance caught on with critics and moviegoers and he quickly became a favorite in Hollywood, appearing in several films a year. He owed some of his good fortune to Bruce Willis, who recommended Duncan for “The Green Mile” after the two appeared together in “Armageddon.”

Clarke would work with Willis again in “Breakfast of Champions,” ‘’The Whole Nine Yards” and “Sin City.”

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Jennifer HudsonHero andReleased Relatives Identify Body of Her Slain Nephew FRC Shooting from Hospital sport-utility vehicle sought in

By Alan King By George connection with the murder of AFRO StaffBarnette Writer AFRO Staff Writer Hudson’s mother and brother.

The white, 1994 Chevrolet Jennifer Hudson and other Suburban with Illinois Leonardo R. Johnson is back home, healing, after license relatives positively identified quick action that may have averted an anti-right-wing shooting rampage at the Family Research Council’s (FRC) headquarters in Washington, D.C. last month.

The 46-year-old African American maintenance worker requested privacy as he recovers from a gunshot wound that occurred when he happened to be standing a turn at the security desk at FRC headquarters Aug. 15.

In a statement released through the FRC on Aug. 24, Johnson said he’s recovering, but isn’t completely out of the woods yet from a rare attempt at politically-motivated violence aimed at a right-of-center group.

“I am thankfully now out of the hospital,” Johnson said.

“My condition continues to improve although it appears another surgery will be needed.”

That’s music to the ears of Johnson’s loved ones, including his girlfriend Erica Reed. Reed told the AFRO that her first Photos response when she initially learned of the shootingCourtesy was shock.

Jennifer and hersaid mom, Darnell Donerson who “I was Hudson in denial,” Reed of her reaction when officials was killed, as well as her brother, Jason. from the Family Research Council (FRC) notified her of the shooting. “I was just saying ‘No, not him.’”

28-year-old Floydplate LeeX584859 Corkins was II pleaded not found on theMeanwhile, body of her 7-year-old Chicago’s West Side after guilty Aug. 24just to ahours federal interstate transportation of a nephewonMonday, police received a 7 a.m. call after his body was found in a

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from a neighbor about a suspiposted fliers bearing his photofirearm and ammunition charge along with assault with intent of federal law violations began. graph around the city. On cious vehicle.

The man noticed to kill while armed and possession of a handgun during a On its web site, the FRC saysSunday, it “shapes public debate and the vehicle while walking his Jennifer Hudson asked crime of violence; two District of Columbia charges. formulates public policy that values human life and upholds dog. According to the Chicago for the public’s help in finding Tribune, the boy had been shotrevealed that Corkins is mentally A psychiatric evaluation the institutions of marriage and her the nephew. family.”In It her has MySpace drawn multiple times in the back seat shethe thanked fans and supfit to stand trial. criticism from the political left, blog, notably Southern Poverty of the The SUV, regisforhas their prayers and Onvehicle.

Aug. 15, Corkins, a Herndon, Va. resident, allegedly Law Center (SPLC) which said porters the FRC “knowingly tered to Hudson’s murdered offered a $100,000 rewardgay, to walked into the FRC offices at 801 G St N.W. in downtown spread false and denigrating propaganda about lesbian, brother, was towed anyone SPLC who returned boy Washington armedwith withthe a Sig Sauer 9mm and two additional bisexual transgender (LGBT) people,” senior the fellow boy’s body inside and is being alive. magazines loaded with 9mm ammunition. According to Mark Potok said in a statement. processed by evidence techniSince the investigation, federal a witness The SPLC’s label gave Corkins reason to attack cians andauthorities, workers. The body told them that Corkins shouted, Hudson – who gainedhis stardom “I don’t like your politics” upon entering the building. organization. according to FRC President Tony was later removed and taken to after appearing onPerkins “American whoMedical has spent the last 13 years working for the “Let me be clear that Floyd Corkins was responsible the Johnson, Cook County Idol,” and then won an for FRC, was working his daily three hours as security guard firing the shot yesterday,” Perkins told reporters on her Aug. 16.in Examiner’s office.

Academy Award for role as Hudson part of his job as the building facilities manager.

An “But Corkins was given a license to shoot an unarmed man and other family the movie Dreamgirls – has by members arrived at surveillance the Medical footage then shows Corkins stayed outLaw of the public eye.

FBI affidavit says organizations like the Southern Poverty Center that have Examiner’s office mid-afterThe Chicago Tribune reportspeaking with Johnson before, reaching into his backpack, been reckless in labeling organizations hate groups because King, Jennnifer noon to identify the body. ed policy.” that a parade of cars moved pulling out his pistol and firing atJulian Johnson, hitting him in Hudson’s theynephew. disagree with them on public Given theJohnson, choice between slowly past her family’s home the arm. despitelookbeing wounded, rushed Corkins It’s apparently a debate that Corkins strongly about.

A spokesman for the office the murders but is being held in Monday felt ing directlyhim at theand body or morning, past the disarming subduing him.

The FBI said Corkins’ parents told them their son harbored told the newspaper that Hudson jail for parole violation after viewing it on a wall-mounted news vans, reporters and curiIn the meantime, another security guard called 911. strong opinions against those he believes unfairly treat ous onlookers.

D.C. police (MPD) officers responded, arresting Corkins homosexuals.

Neighbors stood and beginning their investigation by examining the man’s Reed was aware of the organization’s highquietly profileand in the backpack. According to the affidavit, they found an additional debate over family and homosexuality, too. And, she reflected said, on the “remained strong for her famibeing convicted of attempted 50 rounds of ammunition and 15 Chick-fil-A sandwiches. so was Johnson.

“In every job you have you know the risk,” video screen, the family chose violence. ly”said and that, was clearly its leader. murder and“But vehicular hijackAmes, FBI spokesman after determining she said. nothing even remotely closeoftothe this had ever the Andrew latter. According to the In front Hudson’s “She held hands her fami- ing.

Cook County records show home, men in heavy jackets Tribune, Hudson “Yes, that Corkins maysaid, have violated federal laws, an with investigation happened before.” ly,” the spokesman said. “It that he pleaded guilty to both that’s him.” and hooded sweatshirts came to was obviously a very emotional charges in 1999. He was also kiss the twin white crosses barmoment.” convicted in 1998 for possesing the names of Donerson and The boy – the son of Julia sion of a stolen motor vehicle.

Jason.

Hudson, Jennifer’s sister – had He was released from prison in “Everybody is sick of going been missing since Friday, 2006 after serving seven years through stuff like this,” Artisha when a relative found Julian’s for the attempted murder and West, a former resident of the grandmother, Darnell car hijacking charges. area told the Tribune. “We all No wonder Obama’s campaign is Donerson, 57, and his uncle, The boy remained missing have to stick together. All these trying to distance him from the Jason Hudson, 29, shot to death through a long weekend in young areand dying, and who his“Barack students,Obama and was optimistic.

He was anhome avid in Hepolice was a and member of Omega Psi Phichildren fraternity a service group,lived saying, in his grandmother’s which volunteers for what?” bicycle rider andwith hadACORN.” a fondness for airplanes.

Many fraternity, Alpha Phi Omega.

Never Organized the model 7000 block of South Yaleof his were UDCAvenue. in special programs.

Surviving are his mother, Hattie Wells (Baltimore) a sister But works Obama’s ties exhibited to ACORNat run longHe anddid deep.

He taught for classes illustrations Sepia magazine to accompany Sandra Brantly (New Jersey); his son Travis (N.Y.), three An Amber Alert – a desigfor ACORN. Theyby even articles written hisendorsed father, Rufus Jr., who was a former nephews (David, Derek, Shawn), great nephews, a niece and nation for high-risk missing him for President. children – was issued Friday employee of the AFRO. other relatives and friends.

But now ACORN is in trouble. after Julian was discovered Reporter: There are at least missing after the murders.

11 investigations across the Police arrested William country involving thousands of Balfour, the missing boy’s steppotentially fraudulent ACORN father and estranged husband forms. of Julia, at his girlfriend’s Announcer: Massive voter Southside apartment several fraud. And the Obama campaign hours after the murders. paid more than $800,000 to an Balfour’s mother, Michele, has ACORN front for get out the vote told reporters that her son had efforts. nothing to do with the slayings.

Pressuring banks to issue risky Balfour remains a suspect in Jason Hudson loans. Nationwide voter fraud.

Barack Obama. Bad judgment.

Blind ambition. Too risky for America.

“She held hands with her family. It was obviously a very emotional moment.”

LeaderProfessor Calls Voter Registration Fraud Charges ‘Bogus’ Art and Dallas Cowboys players

By Alan King Tony Romo and Terrell Owens, AFRO Staff Writer Rufus Decatur Wells, among the names submitted to III, Presidential son of Hattie Hayes John election officials. candidate Wells and attack the late Hurd said those workers, who McCain’s on ACORN – were doing those things without Rufus Decatur Associated Community ACORN’s knowledge or permisOrganization for Reform Now – Wells Jr., sion, were fired. confirms the success of the was born in “The evidence that has surorganization, the head of the Norfolk, VA. faced so far shows they faked group says. on June 22, “This is testimony to the work forms to get paid for work they 1941. He didn’t do, not to stuff ballot we’ve done and success we’ve departed boxes.” ACORN, she said, is the had,” Maude Hurd, president of this life onsaid in an interview victim of fraud, not the perpetraACORN, March tor of it. with the26.

AFRO. He was a this attack started, we Hurd said the only things “When bogus are the charges themformer had justArt announced that we had selves. And factcheck. org registered 1.3 million new votProfessor agrees. ers,” she said.

“That’s just to say at the It concluded, “Neither that someone’s running scared University ACORN nor its employees have because of ACORN’s success.” of the District been found guilty of, or even McCain, who is running for of Columbia president on the Republican tick- charged with, casting fraudulent and a freelance votes.” et, lashed out at ACORN in the artist for theagainst U.S. Barack The problem came about prifinal debate Government.

He was Obama, contending the group “is marily because of the way very active on the vergeinofR.O.T.C. maybe perpetrat- ACORN operates. Rather than rely on volunteers, it pays peoand served in greatest the U.S.frauds Army. ing one of the in ple, many of them poorwhere or unemvoter country, Hehistory spent in histhis early years in Norfolk and Richmond he ployed, to sign up new voters. maybe destroying the fabric of attended public schools, alter graduating from Maggie Walker The ideaUniversity was to help receiving both those democracy.”

High School. He matriculated at Howard being registered and those doing Factcheck.org, a non-partisan his B.A. degree in June 1963. His major at Howard College of the registration.

Web site, found those claims to Fine Arts was Graphic Design with aMaud minorexplained, in Art History.

He “We have a be “exaggerated,” with “no eviwas theofArt for The Hilltop,zero Howard’s publication. tolerancenews policy for deliberdence anyEditor such democracyIn 1963 hefraud.” was listed in “Who’s Who Among Students in ate falsification of registration.” destroying American Universities and Colleges”.Most He news was on the Dean’s account neglect to Hurd believes the McCain honor andpolitically won themotivatStudent Artpoint Exhibit award in 1962. out that ACORN is chargesroll were by law turna in all reged.Rufus was easy-going, friendly,required very fair, andtohad great istration forms.

And they also She said, “Because it’s lowsense of humor. He was a very patient and dedicated teacher fail to note that it was the organizaand moderate-income people, and people of color, I believe the tion, in many instances, that first brought the phony registrations McCain campaign thinks those to the attention of authorities. voters are going to vote The McCain camp apparently Democratic, which is not necesisn’t interested in those fine sarily true.” points, preferring to air misleadACORN is no stranger to ing ads that seek to link Obama controversy.

For 38 years, the non-partisan to ACORN, thereby undercutting organization has fought for social his political support.

McCain: I’m John McCain and economic justice for lowand I approve this message. and moderate-income Announcer: Who is Barack Americans. With 400,000 memObama? A man with “a political ber families organized into more baptism performed at warp than 1,200 neighborhood chapspeed.” Vast ambition. After colters in 110 cities nationwide, lege, he moved to Chicago.

ACORN has over the years seen its share of criticism while advo- Became a community organizer.

There, Obama met Madeleine cating for affordable housing, Talbot, part of the Chicago living wages, healthcare for the branch of ACORN. He was so underserved— and while organimpressive that he was asked to izing voter registration drives. train the ACORN staff.

But none has been as withering What did ACORN in Chicago and baseless as this one. engage in? Bullying banks.

With the presidential election Intimidation tactics. Disruption less than two weeks away, of business. ACORN forced ACORN’s detractors allege the organization has engaged in mas- banks to issue risky home loans. sive voter registration fraud after The same types of loans that caused the financial crisis we’re the reported discovery of bogus in today. names, such as Mickey Mouse

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Since McCain’s comments, ACORN’s 87 offices have been bombarded with threats and racist mail.

The day after the presidential debate, vandals broke into the organization’s Boston and Seattle offices and stole computers.

After a Cleveland representative appeared on TV, an e-mail was sent to the local office saying she “is going to have her life ended.”

A worker in Providence, R.I., received a threatening call saying, “We know you get off work at 9” and uttered racial epithets.

A caller to one office left a message on the answering machine, saying: “Hi, I was just calling to let you know that Barack Obama needs to get hung. He’s a (expletive deleted) nigger, and he’s a piece of (expletive deleted). You guys are fraudulent, and you need to go to hell. All the niggers on oak trees.

They’re gonna get all hung honeys, they’re going to get assassinated, they’re gonna get killed.”

Another message said, “You liberal idiots. Dumb (expletive deleted). Welfare bums. You guys just (expletive deleted) come to our country, consume every natural resource there is, and make a lot of babies. That’s all you guys do. And then suck up the welfare and expect everyone else to pay for your hospital bills for your kids. I jus’ say let your kids die. That’s the best move. Just let your children die.

Forget about paying for hospital bills for them. I’m not gonna do it. You guys are lowlifes. And I hope you all die.”

Hurd thinks the hate calls will cease soon.

“In two weeks, I think these attacks will be over. But I think it will be harder for us to get our name back on good graces because they really trashed us in the last few weeks.”

But ACORN will not be deterred.

“We’ve been fighting for a long time, for over 30 years, for the rights of low- and moderateincome people all across the country,” Hurd said. “We’re going to continue to fight for economic justice in our communities.”

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Thousands converged at the Inner Harbor on Sept. 2 for the second annual Grand Prix of Baltimore. Families from across the region poured downtown to see who would capture the coveted IndyCar Series penultimate crown. Hunter-Reay, a 28-year-old driver for DHL and the Andretti Autosport team won first place after stealing the lead from Australian driver Ryan Briscoe. The 2012 Baltimore Grand Prix weekend zoomed off to a strong start with a few practice runs on Friday Aug. 31 and several American Le Mans Series races presented by Tequila Patron Racing on Sept. 1.

2011 Grand Prix winner Will Power

Batmobile (replica)

Photos by Anderson Ward

Ralph Giles (Chrysler SRT Div. Dir.)

Michael Andretti (Andretti Sports Marketing)

Indy racer Ryan Hunter-Reay

Chris Miles with protege Chase Austin (who will attempt to qualify for the Indy 500 race 2013)

Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-B​lake and J.P. Grant

Col. Greg Gadson U.S. Army (Grand Prix Grand Marshal)

Spectators attended from far and near Greg Marshall, Esther and Caleb from Wash., D.C.

The Cannon and Hill families from Wash., D.C. The Harris family from Baltimore, MD.

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September 8, 2012 - September 14, 2012, The Afro-American

Despite Long Fight, Baker Gets Gaming Referendum He Wants

By George Barnette AFRO Staff Writer Prince George’s County Executive Rushern L. Baker III introduced a plan last fall and has seen it through to a November referendum where Maryland voters get to decide its fate.

Baker wants a Las Vegas-style casino hotel at National Harbor where guests and visitors can enjoy gaming and other entertainment. In a county looking to spark economic development, Baker said this facility could jumpstart things.

“There’s not a single development project that would generate as much revenues as a gaming facility at National Harbor.”

– Rushern L. Baker III “It will spur economic development in the southern part of the county and will help create an offshoot economy,” Baker said.

“There’s not a single development project that would generate as much revenues as a gaming facility at National Harbor,” Baker said. “We’re talking anywhere from $40 to $60 million per year.”

The fight to get the issue placed on the November ballot wasn’t easy. The issue wasn’t resolved in the regular General Assembly session, where debate caused the state to miss a deadline for approving the spending plan for fiscal year 2013.

That forced another special session to approve the spending plan. Then, after MGM Resorts International jumped in the game and provided something tangible for officials to see, a second special session was called specifically to put the issue to bed.

Those struggles really put Baker’s plan or any future plans to place a gaming facility in Prince George’s County in jeopardy. Despite that, the Baker administration knew there would be pushback.

“You had folks who had interests in how this was going to be resolved and they wanted to make sure that their concerns were addressed as well,” said Brad Frome, Baker’s deputy chief of staff. “That helped lead us to the bill that was adopted because it does take into account some of these other interests and it also kind of explains the delay and how long it took for the general assembly to address this issue.”

Those interests Frome speaks of would mostly come from David Cordish, owner of Maryland Live! casino at Arundel Mills, and residents in Anne Arundel County who believe that casino revenue and other potential income would be negatively impacted by a National Harbor facility.

Due to that, concessions were made to mitigate the possible damaging economic impact of a National Harbor casino to Maryland Live! casino at Arundel Mills and the Caesar’s casino, which would be located at the Inner Harbor in Baltimore. Maryland Live! would have its tax rate lowered 8 percent while Caesar’s rate would be lowered 7 percent.

MGM and Caesars also agreed to purchase the slot machines to be used at their facilities instead of the state purchasing the machines.

Then there is the Stop Slots group headed by former Del. Gerron Levi (D). She has consistently refuted numbers projected by the Baker administration and told the AFRO on several occasions that Baker should focus on fixing the county’s foreclosure crisis rather than adding slots. Despite the issue going to voters, Levi remains resolute about continuing the fight.

“We’re going to continue to oppose it and inform the public about damaging features of the dramatic expansion of gambling in Prince George’s,” Levi said. “This could leave a dramatic footprint for a predatory industry and it has the potential to change the face of our community.”

If Maryland voters approve the site, it’s not a given that it’ll be awarded to National Harbor. Rosecroft Raceway is also a possible site and its owner, Penn National Gaming, is eager to bid against MGM over the site.

However, odds are not in Rosecroft’s favor. The Baker administration will support the National Harbor bid as they believe it would generate more revenue because it would attract more people.

As a bit of leverage, Penn National has signed a two-year extension with Cloverleaf Standardbred Owners Association to keep alive harness racing at the facility only if Rosecroft is awarded a casino.

Neither Cloverleaf or Penn National officials responded to requests for comment, but Sharon Roberts, executive vice president of Cloverleaf said in a statement, “We are finally seeing our industry begin to thrive again and it would be terrible for the progress to end because a casino was placed at National Harbor.”

Despite the political wrangling Baker says he believes county residents want gaming at National Harbor. Baker is very optimistic that the referendum will be passed so that county residents will one day enjoy a MGM resort on the banks of the Potomac.

“I think people are looking at the overall prospects of bringing in revenues and creating anywhere up to 4,000 permanent jobs,” Baker said. “Overall, our numbers with the tracking we’re going informally; we have a great chance of passing it.

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Meanwhile, groups in support of a National Harbor casino say that Penn National is being disingenuous in its opposition of a resort casino at National Harbor. Howard Libit, spokesman for a group supporting the casino, For Maryland Jobs & Schools, which has received a reported $2.4 million from MGM, says that Penn National is just trying to protect its casino in Charles Town, W.Va. and not Rosecroft.

“This is a West Virginiafunded effort to deceive Marylanders and deprive them of the thousands of jobs and millions for our schools that a new world-class resort casino would bring to the state,” said Libit in an Aug. 30 statement.

That assertion is refuted

by Bailey who said, “Had our intention been to simply protect our Charles Town facility, we would have opposed gaming in Maryland from the start.”

Meanwhile, Libit and others who support the casino said that the facility could create 8,000 new direct and indirect jobs to the facility.

They say it could provide much-needed funding for Maryland education.

“No matter how many millions of dollars are spent protecting a casino in West Virginia, Maryland voters understand that a vote for question seven is a vote to keep Maryland competitive and create thousands of jobs and hundreds millions of dollars for their schools,” said Kristen Hawn, spokeswoman for Vote for Seven for Maryland Jobs and Schools.

According to Bailey, if Maryland residents vote yes on the referendum and the National Harbor site is awarded the bid, then Rosecroft’s days are numbered. She says horse racing will just not be sustainable at the facility.

“We recently signed an agreement with our horseman’s organization to continue live racing at Rosecroft in the hope that we can bring gaming to the site,” she said. “If we are unsuccessful, then we have no other choice than to shutter our doors.”

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Continued from A1 in Baltimore. “We are occupying the building and just plain staying there. We are going tostand our ground to change what is clearly unconstitutional.”

White Rock’s battle commenced on the day of the 143rd anniversary of the church, Nov. 13, when a representative of the UMC gave the Carroll County, Md., congregation a two-week notice that they had to leave the property or pay for the assets.

At the heart of the issue is language within the UMC Book of Discipline, the document governing UMC churches, which states that individual congregations hold any and all assets in trust for the conference. A state law was established in Maryland in 1976.

Conference officials said church officials and members know that any property belongs to the UMC. Members said they believe members should own the assets because in many cases they purchased the buildings and kept them up with little or no help from the conference.

“The United Methodist Church has been very effective in getting state governments to pick up this clause and put it into law,” said state Sen. Lisa A. Gladden (D-Baltimore City), who introduced a bill to have the Maryland law repealed. “I think this story is bigger than Maryland.”

Gladden’s bill never made it to a vote in Annapolis during the last legislative session, though testimony was heard from both sides.

Gladden adds that the asset forfeiture clause, which holds that church property must remain with the UMC if congregations decide to leave, is a key way of “ensuring membership.”

“Is it right? Probably not, because God is bigger than churches and religion,” she said, stating that congregations in California and Alaska are waging the same battle. “We should let people seek the Lord any way they want to. We don’t need to threaten them by taking their property.”

Schol told the AFRO he is not trying to close churches.

He has been accused by Black pastors of moving against

small, predominantly African American UMC churches in the conference. Some pastors said he is also consolidating some churches by joining two or three into one new congregation.

“We are not closing African-American churches, and when two churches merge, both have to agree. We can’t force them into that particular relationship,” he said.

According to Ianther Mills, regional team leader for Annapolis Southern Region of the UMC and dean of the bishop’s cabinet, congregations are discontinued only by the vote of churchmembers or by a district committee. Even then, congregations only close due to lack offunds, lack of members or unfit buildings.

UMC officials also denied allegations that Be the Change, a new Baltimore-Washington conference organization established to fight homelessness in Baltimore and Washington, D.C., has been closing churches to use the properties as shelters.

“The sole purpose and intention is to work with abandoned or vacant properties, orproperty we might get in other ways, and repurpose those properties for the good of the community,” he said. “And also to start new congregations.”

Projects for supportive housing to help the homeless get back on their feet have begun at a former churchin the 1400 block of Columbia Road, NW in Washington, D.C. Members of Calvary UMC, whose membership is mostly White, decided on their own to close, officials said.

Two older churches in the Baltimore area, Govan’s Boundary and New Hope UMC of Edgewood, have also been repurposed for new congregations, housing for the homeless and comprehensive services offered

by Be the Change.

“There is no intent or strategy to sell churches, or close them, to support this ministry,” said Anthony Hunt, former district superintendent for Baltimore.

Like White Rock, Warren Community Church, formerly known as Warren CommunityChurch Love Chapel, long ago decided to leave the conference. Warren Community officially disaffiliated with the UMC in 2007 and recently received a final

directive to vacate the property.

Rev. Ernest Thomas, pastor of Warren Community, wanted to buy back his church for $5,000, even though he says Baltimore-Washington UMC officials “never gave a dime towards that building in any form.”

His offer was denied.

“Of course they didn’t accept that, but we were trying to hold on…any way that we could because we understood exactly what that law means,” said Thomas. “You go to court to try fighting for control of your church, the courts are going to look at this law.”

Thomas appeared in court recently regarding the church property and an eviction notice given to the congregation.

Since that day, the small congregation has been officially put out of their meeting house. The locks have been changed.

The property is listed for sale at $75,000.

“I’ve been a member of Warren Church for more than 50 years,” said 72-year-old Thomas. “My father-in-law is on the deed for the church and his wife played piano for the church until she passed away. Their daughter, my wife, played the piano in that church until she couldn’t anymore, and she passed away in 2002.”

Rev. Kenneth Mitchell of Sunnyside New Life Community Church, formerly Sunnyside Methodist Episcopal Church, has also fought to keep the assets of his Frederick, Md., church.

“The deed is dated 1899,” said Mitchell. “The property of Sunnyside was acquired and purchased by the deceased family members and they left the property in charge of the trustee.”

The property came into question in 2008 when lead pastor, Erma Dyson, told the congregation the building was deemed unsuitable for worship. Dyson was the pastor of four churches at the time and according to Mitchell, wanted to merge the smaller congregations with her main facility when the Sunnyside congregation cried foul.

“The congregation decided that we no longer wanted to be a part of the United Methodist Church,” said Mitchell. “We wanted to move on and worship God as a independent church.”

Sunnyside was eventually able to re-buy their own property for $50,000, but not before spending almost $40,000 in legal fees.

a consistent advantage over Romney as the more empathetic and in-touch leader. But the sputtering economy is the topmost voter concern and Obama’s highest mountain to climb after more than 42 months of unemployment surpassing 8 percent, the longest such stretch since the end of World War II. No president since the Great Depression has been re-elected with joblessness so high.

A new report found manufacturing activity declined for a third

stage as the most popular figure in this year’s presidential campaign.

Michelle Obama earns higher favorability ratings than her husband, Romney, his wife, Ann, or either candidate for the vice presidency, according to the latest Associated PressGfK poll. And views of Mrs. Obama tilt favorably among independents and women, two focal points in her husband’s campaign for re-election.

Obama watched his wife’s address back in Washington, two nights before his own convention-closing speech in the 74,000-seat Bank of America stadium, if uncertain weather permits the outdoor venue. He closed a pre-convention tour of battleground states in Norfolk, Va., dispensing a case of White House-brewed beer at a fire station and summoning a crowd at Norfolk State University to resist apathy and make sure to vote.

Republicans are “counting on you, maybe not to vote for Romney, but they’re counting on you to feel discouraged,” he said. “And they figure if you don’t vote, then big oil will write our energy future, and insurance companies will write our health care plans, and politicians will dictate what a woman can or can’t

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two men who sparred, sometimes sharply, in the 2008 primaries, when Clinton was supporting wife Hillary’s campaign for the nomination.

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, the career venture capitalist, appeared nowhere in Mrs. Obama’s remarks. But there was no mistaking the contrast she was drawing when she laid out certain values, “that how hard you work matters more than how much you make, that helping others means more than just getting ahead yourself.”

Such subtleties were otherwise missing from the stage as speaker after speaker teed up to take a strip off Romney and the Republicans, answering the catcalls of last week’s GOP convention in kind. The party’s upand-coming Julian Castro, mayor of San Antonio, Texas, captured the tone in branding Romney a millionaire “who doesn’t get it.” Said former Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland, “If Mitt was Santa Claus, he’d fire the reindeer and outsource the elves.”

Polling gives Obama

straight month. The Treasury Department announced Tuesday that the government’s debt passed $16 trillion. And the latest unemployment report, coming Friday, offers more potential fodder for Romney’s case against his rival’s stewardship unless it shows marked improvement. The GOP candidate took a few days’ hiatus from the campaign trail, preparing in Vermont for three fall debates with Obama that could prove pivotal in this close election.

Recalling life before Washington, Mrs. Obama spoke of the “guy who’d picked me up for our dates in a car that was so rusted out, I could actually see the pavement going by through a hole in the passengerside door.” She described a marriage of kindred spirits, both from humble roots, and said the president’s work on health care, college loans and more all come from that experience. “These issues aren’t political” for him, she said. “They’re personal.”

“Barack knows what it means when a family struggles,” she said. “He knows what it means to want something more for your kids and grandkids.”

The first lady took the

do when it comes to her own health.”

Romney-bashing was the order of the night in Charlotte.

“Trust comes from transparency and Mitt Romney comes up short on both,” stated Senate leader Harry Reid. The Nevada senator darkly surmised that “we can only imagine what secrets would be revealed” if the wealthy Republican candidate released years of his tax returns. But, notably, Reid dropped his unsubstantiated claim that Romney had avoided years of tax liability.

Democrats roared when the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy was shown mocking Romney in their 1994 Senate race. “On the issue of choice, I am pro-choice, my opponent is multiple choice,” the late senator said as cheers grew louder. Romney once supported abortion rights, now opposes them, and has been criticized as a flipflopper on a number of issues.

Castro, the first Hispanic chosen to deliver a keynote address, recalled Romney’s support for mandatory health insurance when he was governor of Massachusetts, and his opposition to that federal mandate in Obama’s health care law. “Gov. Romney has undergone an extreme makeover, and it ain’t pretty,” he said.

In convention floor interviews, delegates said Obama had made a clear difference in their lives over four years.

Wisconsin delegate Kaeleen Ringberg said the president’s health care law extended her insurance and student loan aid kept her debt manageable. “I just graduated from college — I’m 23 — and I can stay on my parents’ health insurance for another three years while I try and make my way in the world,” she said. “That has helped me a lot, brought me a lot of security. I might not get a good-paying job for a while, but at least I have my health insurance.”

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Obama Needs to Project More than Hope The primary goal of the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C. this week is to highlight the sharp contrast between the policies of President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, his Republican opponent.

In the past, political conventions were used to count delegates to determine each party’s respective presidential nominee. That has changed in recent years, George Curry with the ballot outcome already determined by the time thousands of delegates roll into a city for the convention.

Today, the speeches are directed at millions watching on television, the Internet or a mobile device, not the people sitting in the convention hall.

Republicans concluded their national convention in Tampa and for the first time in 60 years, the GOP nominee didn’t make the argument that his party will do a better job in foreign affairs. President Obama took that issue away from Republicans by ending U.S. involvement in the war in Iraq, bringing troops back from Afghanistan and approving a mission that resulted in the death of Osama bin Laden.

With shifting U.S. demographics, the Tampa gathering may be the last national political convention at which Republicans or any other party can make a race-based appeal to White voters. Despite token appearances by former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Artur Davis, a former Democratic congressman from Alabama who couldn’t carry his own precinct in his bid for governor, Team Romney made a major appeal to its base. And the selection of Paul Ryan as his running mate served to underscore that point.

The problem for Republicans is that the election will largely be decided by undecided independent voters. And

Romney, a Massachusetts moderate-turned-conservative, can’t afford to appeal directly to that group without alienating ardent conservatives already suspicious of him.

Except for a speech to the NAACP annual convention in Houston, Romney has done little to appeal to AfricanAmerican voters. Not that it would do him much good. A recent NBC News/ Wall Street Journal poll showed Romney getting zero percent of the Black vote. Of course, that does not mean no Black person in America will vote for him. Instead, the zero was in a poll with a margin of error of 3.1 percent.

That means that Romney probably will not match John McCain’s unimpressive 4 percent in 2008. By comparison, George W. Bush captured 11 percent of the Black vote in 2004.

Both Obama and Bill Clinton were elected president without receiving a majority of the White vote. And Obama can do it again this year.

Look at how this plays out in the battleground state of North Carolina, which Obama carried by only 4,177 votes – or 0.3 percent – in 2008.

Blacks make up 22 percent of North Carolina’s population.

Over the past decade, 1.5 million people migrated to North Carolina – 61.9 percent of them non-White. According to demographers quoted by the Charlotte Observer, Obama can carry the state by winning just 36 percent to 37 percent of the White vote.

Obama’s larger problem is that after campaigning four years ago on a theme of hope and change, there is not much of either today. His severest critics note that after promising change–that’s about all they have left in their pockets after nearly four years of his leadership.

Of course, it’s impossible to bring about change by yourself. And Obama was naïve to believe that he could single-handedly change the political bickering in Washington.

The party out of power is always plotting to re-gain control.

However, Republicans reached a new low when Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell announced before Obama was sworn in that his top priority was to make sure Obama was a one-term president. And Republicans have sought to block

Obama’s major initiatives, including his signature Affordable Care Act. They outmaneuvered him on extending the Bush tax cuts.

On the campaign trail, Obama promised to extend the Bush tax cuts only for individuals earning less than $200,000 and couples making less than $250,000, a position favored by most Americans. However, Obama consented to a GOP plan extending all tax cuts supposedly in exchange for extending unemployment benefits. Obama should have stood his ground and forced Republicans to vote on whether to extend unemployment benefits to people who had lost their jobs.

House Republicans learned early that they could simply pretend to be interested in adopting bipartisan legislation. In an effort to court them, Obama would propose legislation that he hoped would appeal to conservatives. They would play along right up to the end and withdraw from the process, leaving Obama with proposals that even his base couldn’t support.

The test this week for Obama is to demonstrate that he isn’t the same naïve former U.S. Senator he was four years ago in Denver. With Republicans hell-bent on not seeing Obama return to the White House, he needs to show that he has more than just the audacity of hope.

George E. Curry, former editor-in-chief of Emerge magazine, is editor-in-chief of the National Newspaper Publishers Association News Service (NNPA) and editorial director of Heart & Soul magazine.

Why Marriage in Maryland Matters Let’s face it: Marriage for gay and lesbian couples is often perceived as a White issue. Yet, there are thousands of African Americans - our brothers and sisters, cousins, neighbors, and co-workers – who are gay, in committed relationships, and want to marry. My own cousin had to go to Canada to marry the man he loved. So it’s probably time the country started talking about the issue Julian Bond in more diverse terms- and time the African-American community started, well, talking about it.

And there’s no better place to begin this work than in Maryland, where a quarter of voters are Black. Marylanders are heading to the polls in November to uphold or undo the same-sex marriage law signed earlier this year by Governor Martin O’Malley. Same-sex marriage supporters, who believe in treating people fairly and equally under the law, have a 14-point lead - unheard of in the marriage battles. Most telling, African Americans in the state are now evenly divided. A year

ago a majority was opposed.

The Free State’s surge of momentum is due to the right people standing up and saying the right things. President Obama spoke out on marriage equality, followed by the NAACP. They yanked marriage for Black gay and lesbian couples out of the closet.

African Americans are now sitting around the dinner table talking about it and realizing at the end of the day it’s about treating people fairly and making families stronger. No longer do ignorance and prejudice dominate the debate.

Rev. Delman Coates of Mt. Ennon Baptist Church in Maryland’s Prince George’s County is a strong local voice who is always reminding people, especially his fellow ministers, that religious freedom is protected. Translation: no gay people will be walking down the aisle in a church unless that church agrees with it. Coates even saw an uptick in attendance to his 8,000-member mostly Black church, after he publically backed the bill passed by the state legislature.

Of four states with marriage equality on the ballot this fall, no win would be as sweet as Maryland’s. It would be the first state below the Mason-Dixon line where marriage for committed gay and lesbian couples is legal. No more fingers can be pointed at African Americans for standing in the way of equality (as they wrongly were, after Proposition 8’s win in California). And a victory would deal a serious blow to the

National Organization for Marriage, whose admitted strategy is to “drive a wedge between gays and blacks.” NOM needs to stop using Black people for their anti-gay crusade.

This is a pivotal time. In just the last two years, national polls show a majority of Americans support marriage for gays and lesbians. Part of this forward movement comes from the African-American community, half of which supports the issue. Right after President Obama’s May endorsement of marriage equality, a Washington Post/ABC News survey found that number to be 59 percent. Even Republicans are getting in the act. Were it not for GOP lawmakers in New Hampshire and Maryland earlier this year and New York last, marriage equality would not be legal in those states.

All of this is to say that I think the message of my late neighbor and friend, Coretta Scott King, is sinking in - in all communities. “Homophobia,” she said, “is like racism and anti-Semitism... in that it seeks to dehumanize a large group of people, to deny their humanity, their dignity and personhood.”

Maryland represents the first state in which marriage equality supporters are focusing, in a serious way, on African Americans.

Let’s hope it’s a win for everyone – African Americans and marriage.

Julian Bond is chairman emeritus of the NAACP, which is based in Baltimore, MD.

Illegitimate View on Rape I felt the spirit of Dr. Aaronnette White guiding my fingers for this column.

A couple of weeks ago, Aaronnette died suddenly at the premature age of 51 years. A rape survivor and a respected psychology professor, she was a fierce warrior for the reproductive rights of women, particularly African-American women.

During her brief stint in St. Louis during the 1980s, Jamala Thomas she organized black women (and some black men) to take out a full page ad in The St. Louis American condemning rape in the black community. It was a bold move that pulled the covers off an issue that had rarely received public scrutiny.

Recently Congressman Todd Akin (R) caused a firestorm when asked about his staunch opposition to abortion in the case of women getting pregnant after a rape. He gave this stunning explanation: “If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.”

GOP leaders ran as fast and far away from Akin as they could. Karl Rove snatched his money his American Crossroads

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and Crossroads GPS PAC monies from the Akin campaign.

The Republican National Committee chair, along with other party officials, demanded that Akin–who won the Republican primary for U.S. Senate on Aug. 7–step down.

VP contender Paul Ryan called the remarks “outrageous” and “indefensible.” I found this retort to be quite hypocritical as Ryan shares the same viewpoint. Ryan and Akin have cosponsored bills that are tearing away at the right to a safe and accessible abortion.

Last year, nearly 1,000 anti-abortion bills were introduced across the country. The laws have teetered on the absurd, such as forcing women to endure vaginal ultrasounds before abortions, or redefining the moment of conception. An Arizona law passed this year declared that pregnancy begins two weeks before conception!

The laws prohibit federal funding of abortion or birth control services resulting in defunding of groups like Planned Parenthood. Abortion clinics have been bombed, and doctors who performed abortions have been assaulted or killed.

The detrimental bills passed by Republicans also have attempted to redefine rape. They have coined new and confusing terms like “forcible rape” and “consensual rape.”

Akin’s comments amplified the voices of some of the 32,000 women who are raped each year but who make a conscious choice to keep their babies. Women like Shauna Prewitt. Did you know that the rapist fathers can sue for

parental rights? Prewitt knows all too well.

The attack on rape victims is unconscionable even though these draconian views on rape have persisted in conservative circles for a couple of decades. They have emanated from Dr. John Wilke, a butthead who must have bought his medical degree online at www.degreesforstupidpeople.com. All the other right-wing nuts defer to Dr. Wilke’s demented medical explanation: that women have some biological semen blocker that is released during rape.

I decided to consult a real ob-gyn doctor about the validity of these unscientific ideas; maybe I had missed some new research on the subject. I called up my niece, Dr. Rene Turner, who graduated summa cum laude from real medical schools (Xavier and Tulane) and now works with real women patients.

She totally debunked the pre-historic thinking about rape and pregnancies and expressed surprised that any sane person would promote such harmful myths.

This brings me all the way back to the work of Dr. White and countless others who have worked tirelessly to educate the general society on the issue of rape, to end the attacks on women’s reproductive rights and to bring about the personal and psychological security of women. We who believe in freedom and women’s rights should not rest until the lives, choices and dignity of all women are fully restored and protected.

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Dick Gregory and Dr. E. Fay Williams Robert G. Staton, Park director of the National Park Service/senior advisor to the Secretary of the U.S. Dept. of the Interior

Harry E. Johnson, president and CEO of the Washington DC Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial Project Foundation

Mayor Vincent Gray

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Harry E. Johnson; John McCaskill, P ​ ark Ranger and Dr. Ed Jackson, Jr., executive architect for The Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial Project

The Washington DC Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial Project Foundation hosted a special ceremony on August 28 in commemoration of the first anniversary of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial. The program, which was free and open to the public, included remarks from Harry E. Johnson,

Sr. President of the Foundation and Mayor Vincent Gray, among other dignitaries. Following the event, there was a special film screening of The Long Walk Home, a movie that documents two women’s lives during the famous 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott that was led by King.

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Dr. Ed Jackson; Jr., Robert Stanton and Richard W. Marshall, Chief Financial Officer, Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial Project Foundation

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Community Centenarian Saluted

Family and Friends gathered in the home of Lucy B. Stewart Speller on Aug. 4 to greet her as she celebrated her 108th birthday. Known as “Aunt,” and “Sister,” to many because she and her husband Wesley had no biological children of their own, they were ‘parents’ of many and were responsible for their success.

Lucy’s friends and relatives have benefited from her wisdom, advice and suggestions even when it wasn’t solicited.

During the party, Muriel Photo by Herb Quarles Browser, Ward 4 D.C. Lucy B. Stewart Speller celebrated her 108th birthday councilmember, her with recently in her home in Northwest Washington with a congratulatory letter on relatives and may friends. She’s showing two of the behalf of the residents in congratulatory messages. the ward; Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton placed a congratulatory message in the Congressional Record on Aug. 2, and Joan Williams, a close family friend, presented Lucy a plaque on which a birthday message was written. She also received a family picture and a congratulatory message from President and Mrs. Obama.

Lucy, born in 1904, is a member of Calvary Episcopal Church in Northeast Washington and was a Sunday school and Vacation Bible school teacher.

A common sight at the Speller home on Aug. 4 each year is the arrival, many without invitation, of relatives and friends to observe Lucy Speller’s birthday.

Bridge in D.C.

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Clara Berryhill and Norma Vincent (c) won the Grade B Open Pairs tournament sponsored recently by the Dubridgettes, an affiliate of the Washington Bridge Unit.

The tournament, an annual event, honored the memory of Frances La June Powell, who was president of the club at the time of her death. Sharing the moment with them are Delores Tolson and Elizabeth Wilson.

Duplicate bridge tournaments are held in the WBU Home located at 3801 Eastern Ave. in Mt. Rainier, Md., and are open to area duplicate bridge players.

Here’s the schedule: Bridge Masters - 7 p.m. on the second Friday (202-584-0043); Capitol – 11 a.m. each Tuesday – restricted (202-832-1504); Dubridgettes– 11 a.m. third Monday (202-723-7145); Eastern – 11 a.m. first Friday (301-552-3405); Kings & Queens - 11 a.m. fourth Friday (301-894-1141); Overtricks - 7 p.m. each Tuesday (301-593-4722; VIP – 2:30 p.m. third Sunday –dinner at 2 p.m. (301-589-8425); Y-Bridgettes – 11 a.m. each Wednesday (703-451-2560). Dates are subject to change.

For general information about the WBU or information about bridge classes, call Herb Quarles at 202-723-4407 or via email at hubertquarles@hotmail,com.

Multiple Styles, Personalities Enliven D.C. Market

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The three are a few of approximately 90 artists who showcase and sell their work every Saturday and Sunday at Eastern Market, seven blocks east of the Capitol.

Although different in many ways – from backgrounds to mediums to styles – the artists are united as those who brave the market weekly, rain or shine, hot or cold, to sell their artwork and share their creativity with the community.

“The artists contribute to make Eastern Market the interesting and unique place that it is,” Barry Margeson, the market’s interim manager, said.

Jamie Langhoff’s unique style makes her stand out among the market’s artists. At first glance, one might think her booth is filled with paintings. However, the 29-year-old D.C. resident uses fabric, from old clothing to scraps, and thread to create detailed and colorful wall hangings.

Down the street from Langhoff, Manatho Shumba Masani, 46, of Mount Ranier, Md., is known for giraffe sculptures he makes out of aluminum cans.

And Zachary Sasim, 37, of Hyattsville, Md., uses brush strokes and a palette knife to achieve his impressionist style. Many of his paintings are colorful depictions of iconic D.C. landscapes and imagery.

Art vendors have been included in the market since 1979, Margeson said. Built in 1873 as a place for vendors to sell food, the market maintains that function for the Capitol Hill neighborhood during the week, adding artists and other vendors on the weekends.

Arts and crafts vendors must apply to sell at the market and are chosen through a selection process about twice a year, Margeson said.

The market offers a variety of types of art, including paintings, photography, sculptures, wood carvings and jewelry.

Langhoff has been selling her artwork at Eastern Market since January.

Her brand, “Seeing in Fabric,” is representative of how she approaches her art.

Langhoff said she is inspired by the urban setting she lives in and “particularly all of those architectural and geometric man-made structures juxtaposed against the natural backgrounds setting of the organic shapes of trees and sunsets and clouds.” Telephone wires are a frequent subject of her art.

“I know all the fabrics that I have, and so when I see something I like, I automatically think about how I’d translate it into fabric depending on what fabrics I already have,” she said.

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Masani’s booth is one of the first visitors see when they come to the market from the Eastern Market Metro station.

His booth is normally crowded with people in awe of the creatures Masani spends hours making.

He said a frequent question is what machine he uses to cut the cans that he uses in artwork. He said they are usually surprised to find out that he only uses a pair of scissors.

After cutting the cans into thin slices, he uses a weaving technique to attach the aluminum pieces to a frame he has made.

Masani, who learned his signature style of art when he was in Zimbabwe studying music, began doing this type of art eight years ago.

His booth consists mainly of sculptures of spindly giraffes, from 12 inches to 6 feet 6 inches tall, which is the actual size of a newborn baby giraffe, and a smaller number of other animals or subjects.

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AFRO Sports Desk Faceoff

Should the Washington Redskins’ Old Stomping Grounds Be Renovated?

By Perry Green and Stephen D. Riley AFRO Sports Desk From soccer games to the AT&T Nation’s Classic, Washington, D.C.’s ancient Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium still provides an electric atmosphere for sporting events around the District. Throughout Saturday’s contest between the Howard Bison and the Morehouse Maroon Tigers, RFK was in rare form. Shaking stands, a vibrant crowd and a parking lot parade of parties, visions of the mid ‘80s when a dominant Washington Redskins team used to call RFK home had to dance through locals’ heads. But with FedExField as the dominant stadium residing in the Metro area, should officials even bother to renovate an ancient RFK? Perry Green and Stephen D. Riley debate.

Riley: I don’t see why the stadium hasn’t been touched. D.C. United still faithfully plays there and you have two major college football

games that are hosted there as well.

Considering its location in the city, D.C. high school football could easily hold its championship game there as well as being the site of other big-time matchups during the season. The proximity of the Metro transit system is a feather in its cap that FedExField doesn’t have. I’ve tinkered with my own ideas of just hosting all football-related events at Nationals Park but it’s nothing like the feel and familiarity of RFK.

Green: Time has definitely passed on old RFK. When you think of Washington, D.C. now, you think of state of the art stadiums such as Nationals Park or FedExField. RFK has passed its prime and investing any money into its revitalization would be foolish. That money could be served for a whole host of other projects around the area and keep in mind we’re talking about a stadium that doesn’t host any major games outside of the city’s professional soccer team.

Riley: Soccer games aside, we’re

talking about a stadium that could serve for the major venue for all high school football, soccer and lacrosse games. The AT&T Nation’s Classic was a huge success for the second straight year and I don’t see why the same success couldn’t be delivered to other areas. Just letting the stadium rot until the doors fall off doesn’t make much sense at all especially with all the sporting activities that happens around the area. For the past few years the I-95 Kickoff Classic has been held at Towson Stadium.

But how cool would it have been to host those games at RFK? Green: RFK holds a lot of sentimental value for the locals around the area but outside of its history, it really serves no use to the city other than an oversized parking lot at this point. There’s been talk about moving the Redskins back into D.C., but FedEx has been working just fine for the past few years despite the insane long lines and crazy parking rules. I absolutely despise FedEx’s location but it hasn’t

stopped the masses from venturing inside. Your idea is heartfelt but financially, it doesn’t make sense.

Riley: A renovation might be costly but putting an efficient football stadium in the nation’s capital is past due. It doesn’t make sense for one of the country’s leading cities to be without a modern football arena.

Call it financially foolish if you want but you’re not even factoring how much money the metro system or the arena would bring in if RFK was resurrected. And have you ever tried going to a Redskins game on Sundays? Don’t waste your time.

Considering how much traffic would be cleared up would be worth the price alone. The Redskins may even be able to play a game or two at a new RFK and give commuters a chance to erase the two to threehour drive to get into the stadium.

Traffic would be cleared around the Landover area along the beltway and the misery of football Sunday in the Metro area would be alleviated.

Green: I’ve factored all of that

in and a major renovation could still be in store but personally, it would make more sense to me to just use Nationals Park as a universal venue considering its closeness to the metro, size and modern adaptability.

Face it Riley, RFK was nice in its prime but times and newer venues have made the site virtually useless.

If anything, it’s the location of RFK that has the most value. Maybe if they completely knocked the whole stadium down and replaced it with a new state-of-the-art stadium, I’d be open to moving the ‘Skins back to Northeast, D.C., but that would cost too much. And a simple renovation of an old stadium that barely holds 46,000 fans just doesn’t compare to FedExField’s which seats 90, 000 people. That’s nearly 50,000 fans that will be left out of watching the game live, which adds up to a ton of money taken out of the pockets of Redskins owner Dan Snyder. It always comes down to the money, and renovating RFK just doesn’t make dollars so it doesn’t make sense.

Redskins Blast Tampa Bay, 30-3, in Final Preseason Action

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By Perry Green AFRO Sports Editor

Howard freshman quarterback Jamie Cunningham was named MVP for the second AT&T Nation’s Football Classic.

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Howard Takes AT&T Nation’s Classic In 30-29 Thriller over Morehouse

By Perry Green AFRO Sports Editor

Howard University took the second annual AT&T Nation’s Football Classic with a 30-29 victory over Morehouse College on a fourth –quarter touchdown Sept. 1.

In a thrilling, tightly-contested game with eight lead changes, Howard pulled away to win their first game of the 2012 college football season at RFK Stadium in Northeast Washington, D.C. Morehouse scored first with a short field goal by freshman kicker Dorian Greene, giving them a 3-0 lead at the top of the second quarter. Morehouse’s field goal came after a first-quarter attempt was blocked.

But Howard responded immediately on the next drive as junior quarterback Randy Liggins tossed a 50-yard touchdown pass to freshman tight end Justin Boyd, taking a 7-3 lead.

Liggin’s touchdown pass was beautifully orchestrated on a play-action rollout play.

Liggins connected with Boyd in stride and Boyd sped past defenders for the game’s first touchdown.

It didn’t take Morehouse long to answer, however, as they drove down the field on the next possession and scored their first touchdown of the game on a short run by sophomore running back Shelton Hamilton to retake the lead, 107.

Howard came right back on the next possession and scored another touchdown, this time a 42-yard pass from Liggins to freshman tight end Brandon Flanagan. The score gave Howard a 1410 lead at halftime.

Howard extended its lead to 17-10 after a short field goal by freshman kicker Matt Jacobs in the first few minutes of the third quarter. But Morehouse went on

to dominate Howard for the rest of the quarter, scoring two touchdowns in less than 10 minutes of action.

Morehouse senior running back David Carter rushed for two touchdown runs during the period, and went on to finish the game with 121 yards on 34 carries.

Howard head coach Gary Harrell benched Liggins midway through the third quarter and put freshman quarterback Jamie Cunningham in the game. After a sluggish start, the freshman got the got the offense rolling, leading Howard on a scoring drive capped with a short touchdown run by freshman running back William Parker. The score gave Howard a 24-23 lead with only two minutes left in the game.

That’s when it really got exciting.

Morehouse came back to score on the very first play of their next offensive possession with a 73-yard touchdown pass from junior quarterback Donnay Ragland to freshman receiver Devon Mann, retaking the lead 29-23. Ragland completed 14-of-25 passes for 238 yards and a touchdown.

Morehouse’s lead, however, lasted only seconds long before Cunningham marched Howard’s offense down the field on the ensuing drive for a game-winning touchdown pass to junior tight end David Wilson.

Cunningham was named the Most Valuable Player of the Game for his lategame efforts; he finished 10-of-11 for 79 yards and game-deciding touchdown.

Harrell explained after the game why he pulled Liggins for Cunningham. “We had seen a lot of good things from Jamie [Cunningham] in practice so we always looked at him as the future star of this team; he’s a great athlete that can and has a strong arm, but he was still inconsistent with his mechanics so we went with the veteran in Randy [Liggins],” Harrell said.

“Randy did a good job starting the game for us but he beat him self up too much later in the game after making some mistakes and lost his composure so we had to make the switch to Jamie.”

Harrell said after seeing Cunningham handle himself well in the game, he feels more confident in playing the true freshman and will give him the start as they head into their next matchup against Rutgers scheduled for Sept. 8.

Excitement before the game…

There were just as many people outside of RFK Stadium partying during AT&T Nation’s Football Classic Fan Festival, which ran from 11 a.m. until kickoff of the game. Students and alum from both Howard and Morehouse mingled as WPGC 95.5 FM radio station played music for every one in attendance.

Morehouse junior Winston Roberts told the AFRO that he and his buddies flew in from Atlanta to attend the Classic.

Roberts said the game was great but said he enjoyed the debate between Howard and Morehouse on Friday Aug. 31 even more.

“The debate was excellent,” Roberts said. “It was an exhibition so no winner was declared, but we all know that Morehouse really won.”

Howard sophomores Kaia Jones, a business major, and Sabrina Williams, a finance major, volunteered as assistants during the Fan Festival; they both joined fellow HU sophomore Rachael Solomon at the Fan Festival face-painting section to help show off their school pride.

The 2012 Mr. and Ms. Howard University, Chinedu Okpala and Leovina Charles, also made a grand appearance at the pregame Fan Festival.

“This is a great experience to be a part of,” Charles told the AFRO. “Howard vs.

Morehouse; it doesn’t get any better than this!”

The Washington Redskins beat the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in lopsided fashion, 30-3, on Aug. 29 in Game Four of the 2012 NFL preseason at FedEx Field in Landover, Md. The fourth and final game of NFL preseason play is always the most boring game to watch because typical starters don’t play. Most head coaches don’t want to see any of their best players getting injured in the last of the meaningless games, so they bench their starters and sometimes even the secondstring players, while letting third-string players and everyone else still fighting for a roster spot play the entire game. It’s a chance for the coaching staff to get a final evaluation of players they may still be on the fence about as far as whether or not they should keep them or release them from the team.

One player for the Redskins that may have made a good case for why the coaching staff may want to keep him around was Richard Crawford, a defensive back who was taken in the seventh round of this past year’s NFL draft. Crawford made an impressive interception against the Buccaneers, his second total interception recorded this preseason.

Still, Crawford told reporters he still doesn’t feel like he’s safe from being cut.

“I’m new to this business, so I don’t really have a confidence level,” Crawford said to the media after the game. “I’ll be by my phone tomorrow and see what happens.”

Another backup player, Roy Helu, Jr., also had an impressive showing against the Buccs. Helu had

started some games for the Redskins last season when other players ahead of him in the lineup went down with an injury. But this summer, Helu dealt with an injury of his own, causing him to miss action earlier in the preseason. He showed he could still carry the load though against Tampa Bay, rushing for 90 yards and a pair of touchdowns.

Rookie quarterback Kirk Cousins, currently the third-string quarterback for the Redskins, started the game against Tampa and finished completing 15-of27 passes for 227 yards and an interception.

The only starter for Washington that played Wednesday night was new kicker Billy Cundiff, who was quickly picked up by the Redskins after being cut less than a week ago by the Baltimore Ravens.

Cundiff converted three field goals against Tampa Bay, including a 39-yarder.

But he also proved why it may have been wise for Baltimore to cut him as he missed a 46-yarder wideright that caused the Skins crowd to boo him. But Cundiff is still confident he’ll kick well in his new home in Washington.

“It’s a different environment, and to be honest with you, I think it’s a good thing because they expect perfection,” Cundiff said. “And even though perfection is unattainable, if you try to be perfect and you come pretty close, you’re going to have a really good season.”

Redskins coach Mike Shanahan told reporters he also feels Cundiff will kick well this coming regular season.

“Obviously, he would like to be 100 percent,” Shanahan said. “But he was 3-for-4, and hopefully he’ll be 4-for-4 once we get to the season.”

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Community Calendar Sept. 6-9

Prince George’s County Fair Show Place Arena, 14900 Pennsylvania Ave., Upper Marlboro, Md. Various times.

This annual fair features live animal demonstrations, food, music and children’s activities and much more. For more information: 301-925-8300.

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Divine Style DC Fall Fashion Show & Soiree Huckleberry Fine Art

Gallery, 12501 Nebel Street, Rockville, Md. 7-11 p.m.

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Hip-Hop Legend Common Lincoln Theatre, 1215 U St., N.W. D.C. 6:30 p.m. Hung Tao Choy Mei Leadership presents this event, which honors rapper Common. Common will be interviewed live on stage for seventy-five minutes. Following the interview, various musicians will perform. For more information: 202-328-6000.

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Perderedbelieved to appeartofor Show sons beaheirs 6 7 Cause Hearing scheduled for or legatees September of the deWednesday, 12, cedent who do not re2 0 1 2 a t 11 : 0 0 a . m . i n ceive a copy JM-12 of this notice Courtroom before 11 12 Judge A.25 Dalton. by mailCarol within daysYou of have the right to see custody its first publication shall of inform the minor child or to chalso the Register of lenge the adoption. However, 16 Wills, name, 17 in orderincluding to do so, you must address and relationappear at the Show Cause ship.

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SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA FAMILY COURT DOMESTIC RELATIONS BRANCH ADOPTION Adoption Case No. 12-ADA-123 EX PARTE IN THE MATTER OF THE PETITION OF J.H.G. and S.C.T. FOR ADOPTION OF MINOR CHILD CAROL ANN DALTON Judge ORDER FOR PUBLICATION AND POSTING

This matter is before the Court upon consideration of Petitioners´ Motion For AlterADVERTISE Your native Service on A.J. and Truck DRIVER JOBS the Unknown Biological Father. Petitioners contend that in 106 newspapers for the Barker Foundation has one low cost of $495. been unable to locate A.J., or the unknown biological faYour 25 word classified ther. The Affidavit of the asad reaches over 4.1 signed pregnancy counselor, MILLION regional which is incorporated herein by reference, lists the steps and local readers. Call that were taken to locate A.J. Wanda today at 1-855and the unknown biological father.

721-6332 x 6 for more The law requires that service information or email her of the notice of adoption and order to show cause shall be at wsmith@mddcpress. made on each party and on com. any other person whose consent to the adoption is necessary and who has not executed a written consent to the adoption or a relinquishment of parental rights or had his or her parental OCEAN CITY, rights terminated. Super. Ct. Adoption R. 4(d). Although MARYLAND. Best personal service is generally selection of affordable preferred, the Superior Court rentals. Full/ partial Adoption Rules provide circumstances in which service weeks. Call for FREE by posting or publication is brochure. Open daily. permitted. “Upon a determination that [personal] serHoliday Real Estate. vice will not be effective, the 1-800-638-2102. Online Court may order posting or publication of the notice.” Sureservations: www. per. Ct. Adoption R. 4(e)(3). holidayoc.com When determining whether personal service will be effective, the Court must asTYPESET: Tue Sep 04 15:43:28 EDT 2012 LEGAL NOTICES sess whether the childplacing agency made diligent efforts. The Court of Appeals Superior Court of has held that a showing of diligent but futile efforts to asthe District of certain the whereabouts of Columbia the defendant is a prerequiCivil Division site to an order substituting Case No. 0006430-12 publication for personal serIN RE: vice. Bearstop v. Bearstop, Walter Anderson 377 A.2d 405, 408 (D.C. App. Crump 1977). “It is only when the serving party is unable to efApplicant fect personal service that ORDER OF provisions for other types of PUBLICATION notice to a parent concerning CHANGE OF NAME proceedings to terminate the Walter Anderson Crump havparent-child relationship may ing filed a complaint for judgbe given.” In the Matter of ment changing Walter AnE.S.N., 446 A.2d 16,17(D.C. derson Crump name to App. 1982).

Walter C. Anderson and havWHEREFORE, it is this 7th ing applied to the court for an day of August, 2012, hereby Order of Publication of the ORDERED that Petitioners´ notice required by law in such Motion for Alternative Sercases; it is by the Court this vice by Posting and Publica8th day of August, 2012 tion is GRANTED. It is hereby.

FURTHER ORDERED that ORDERED, that a copy of the Domestic Relations clerk this Order be published once shall post the attached Noa week for three (3) consecutice of Adoption Proceedings tive weeks, in The Afro in the above-referenced American Newspapers, a adoption case in the Domesnewspaper of general cirtic Relations Clerk´s Office culation of the District of for a period of fourteen (14) Columbia; and it is further days. It is ORDERED, that publication FURTHER ORDERED that must begin no later than 12 the Petitioners shall publish days after the filling of the apnotice of the pending adopplication; and it is further tion petition in the WashingORDERED, that the FINAL ton Afro-American newsHEARING on this application paper once a week for three to change name be held TYPESET: TuewillSep 04 15:42:51 EDT 2012 successive weeks.

The noin Judge-in-Chambers, tice is to read: Room 4220 In the District of Superior Court of Columbia at 500 Indiana the District of Columbia SUPERIOR COURT OF Avenue NW Washington DC Domestic Relations Branch 20001, on the 27th OF day of THE DISTRICT Family Court September, 2012 at 3:30 pm.

COLUMBIA Case No. 12-ADA-123 If any person desires to opFAMILY COURT Notice of Pending pose this application, that Adoption personDOMESTIC or his or her attorney A.J. or Unknown Birth Father, RELATIONS must be present at the hearyou are hereby notified that BRANCH ing or file written detailed an adoption petition is pendobjections five (5) days in adADOPTION vance of theCase hearing Adoption No. with ing before the Superior Court of the District of Columbia Judge-in-Chambers and mail 12-ADA-123 concerning the minor child, a copyEX to the applicant PARTE IN or ap- A.S.P., born on December plicant’s counsel; and it is furTHE MATTER OF 20, 2011 to Yanice Y. Perther THE PETITION OF all guero. You are hereby orORDERED, that: (Check dered to appear for a Show thatJ.H.G. apply) and S.C.T. ADOPTION OF the Cause Hearing scheduled for o FOR the applicant must send Wednesday, September 12, MINORfor CHILD application change of 2 0 1 2 a t 11 : 0 0 a . m . i n name and notice of final CAROL ANN DALTON Courtroom JM-12 before hearing to the DC Chief of Judge Judge Carol A. Dalton. You Police,ORDER 300 Indiana FORAvenue, have the right to see custody NW Room 5080, Washington PUBLICATION AND of the minor child or to chalDC 20001, the Department of POSTING lenge the adoption. However, Corrections and the Court This matter before the in order to do so, you must Services andis Offender SuCourt upon consideration of appear at the Show Cause pervision Agency personally Petitioners´ Motionor Forcertified AlterHearing or file a written or by registered native Service on A.J. and objection with the Adoption mail and show proof of serthe Unknown Biological FaClerk, Family Court, Room vice by filling the affidavit/ ther.

Petitioners contend that JM-300, Superior Court of declaration of service. the Barker Foundation has 0 the District of Columbia, 500 the applicant must send the been unable tofor locate A.J., orof I n d i a n a Av e n u e , N . W. , application change the unknown biological faWashington, D.C. 20001 name and notice of final ther.

Theto Affidavit of the asprior to the hearing. hearing the current probasigned pregnancy counselor, IT IS SO ORDERED. tion, parole or supervisory rewhich is incorporated herein August 24, 2012 lease officer personally by by reference,orlists the steps Publication Date registered certified mail that were taken to locate A.J. Carol A. Dalton and show proof of service by and the biological Judge filling theunknown affidavit/declaration TYPESET: Tue Sep 04 father.

(Singed in Chambers) of service.

The law requires that 0 8/24, 8/31, 9/7 if incarcerated in a service jurisdicoftion theother noticethat of adoption and the District of order to show shallmust be Columbia, thecause applicant Superior Court of made each party and on send on the application for the District of any other person whose conchange of name and notice of District of Columbia sent the adoption is necesfinaltohearing to the Federal sary and who has not exPROBATE DIVISION Bureau of Prisons personally ecuted a written consent to Washington, D.C. or by registered or certified the adoption or a relinmail and show proof of ser20001-2131 quishment of parental rights vice of mailing by filling the Administration No. oraffidavit/declaration had his or her parental of ser2012ADM812 rights vice. terminated. Super. Ct. Takako Suzuki Adoption R. 4(d). Although SO ORDERED personal service is generally Decedent JUDGE preferred, the Superior Thomas S. Donnelly A TRUE COPY Court TEST: Adoption Rules provide cirCLERK, Esq cumstances in which service SUPERIOR COURT THE Sullivan & Barros, LLP by posting or DISTRICT OFpublication COLUMBIAis 1990 M Street NW permitted. “Upon deter8/24,a8/31, 9/7 Suite 200 mination that [personal] service will not be effective, the Washington DC 20036 Court may order posting or Attorney publication of the notice.” SuNOTICE OF per. Ct. Adoption R. 4(e)(3).

APPOINTMENT, When determining whether NOTICE TO personal service will be CREDITORS effective, the Court must assess whether the childAND NOTICE TO placing agency made diligent UNKNOWN HEIRS efforts. The Court of Appeals Ikuko S. Turner, whose has held that a showing of address is 2410 diligent but futile efforts to asRockwood Road, Accocertain the whereabouts of keek, MD 20607 was apthe defendant is a prerequisite to an order substituting pointed personal reprepublication for personal sersentative of the estate of vice. Bearstop v. Bearstop, Takako Suzuki, who died 377 A.2d 405, 408 (D.C. App. on March 10, 2012 with1977). “It is only when the out a will, and will serve serving party is unable to efwithout Court supervifect personal service that provisions for other types of sion. All unknown heirs notice to a parent concerning and heirs whose proceedings to terminate the whereabouts are unparent-child relationship may known shall enter their be given.” In the Matter of appearance in this E.S.N., 446 A.2d 16,17(D.C. proceeding. Objections App. 1982).

WHEREFORE, it is this 7th to such appointment day of August, 2012, hereby shall be filed with the ORDERED that Petitioners´ Register of Wills, D.C., Motion for Alternative Ser515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd vice by Posting and PublicaFloor Washington, D.C. tion is GRANTED. It is 20001, on or before FURTHER ORDERED that the Domestic Relations clerk March 07, 2013. Claims shall post the attached Noagainst the decedent

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CLASSIFIED Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2012ADM766 Willa Carter Decedent Joseph A. Baldinger, Esq 7910 Woodmont Ave. Suite 1103 Bethesda, MD 20814 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS

Margaret Battle, Joan Marshman, and Patricia Clark whose address are 3419 Carpenter St. SE DC Washington DC 20020, 3703 Dunlap St., Temple Hills, MD 20748, and 2601 Branch Ave. SE Washington DC 20020 were appointed personal representatives of the estate of Willa Carter, who died on April 29, 2012 with a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before February 24, 2013.

Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before February 24, 2013, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Date of Publication: August 24, 2012 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Margaret Battle Joan Marshman Patricia Clark Personal Representatives TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OFTue WILLS TYPESET: Sep 04 8/24, 8/31, 9/7

Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2012ADM733 George Bell Thomas Jr. Decedent Robert M. McCarthy Esq 4405 East West Highway Suite 201 Bethesda MD 20814 301-654-3730 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO 15:53:13 EDT 2012 UNKNOWN HEIRS Donnell Thomas, whose

address is 1524 F Street, NE Apt 212, Washington DC 20002 was appointed personal representative of the estate of George Bell Thomas, Jr. who died on March 6, 2012 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before February 24, 2013.

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Date of Publication: August 24, 2012 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Donnell Thomas Personal Representative 202-398-2783 TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS 8/24, 8/31, 9/7

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TYPESET: Tue Sep 04 15:55:44 EDT 2012 LEGAL NOTICES LEGAL NOTICES LEGAL NOTICES LEGALEDT NOTICES TYPESET: Tue Sep 04 15:55:02 EDT 2012 TYPESET: Tue Sep 04 15:44:16 2012 LEGAL NOTICES TYPESET: Tue Sep 04 15:47:06 15:44:38 EDT 2012 Superior Court of Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2012ADM116 Ray Blackburn Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Tanya LaNice, whose address is 2706 Lorring Drive, #304, Forestville, MD 20747 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Ray Blackburn, who died on April 22, 2011 with a will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before March 07, 2013. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before March 07, 2013, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Date of Publication: September 07, 2012 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Tanya LaNice Personal Representative 301-793-6393 TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS 09/07, 09/14 & 09/21

the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2012ADM811 Willet Rose Moore Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Rosita Cary, whose address is 3926 Ames Street, NE, Washington, D.C., 20019 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Willet Rose Moore, who died on June 01, 2012 without a will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before March 07, 2013. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before March 07, 2013, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Date of Publication: September 07, 2012 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Rosita Cary Personal Representative 202.397.7694 TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS 09/07, 09/14 & 09/21

Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2012ADM759 Osceola H. Hankins Decedent Suzanne M. Snedegar, Esq 4824 Edgemoor Lane Bethesda, MD 20814 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS

Louis O. Hankins and Charles M. Hankins, whose address are 2927 S Dakota Ave, NE Washington DC 20018 and 5073 8th Street NE, Washington DC 20017 were appointed personal representative of the estate of Osceola H. Hankins, who died on April 14, 2011 with a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before February 24, 2013.

Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before February 24, 2013, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Date of Publication: August 24, 2012 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Louis O. Hankins Charles M. Hankins Personal Representative 202-674-0069 703-980-8275 TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS 8/24, 8/31, 9/7

Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2012ADM800 Jesse Earl Green Decedent

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Lorna Hunt, whose address is 1304 Farragut St, NW, Washington, DC 20011 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Jesse E. Green AKA Jesse Earl Green, who died on June 22, 2012 with a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before February 28, 2013.

Claims against the decedent (or to the probate of decedent’s will) shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before February 28, 2013, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Date of Publication: August 31, 2012 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Hughie D. Hunt, II, Esq. Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS 08/31, 09/07, 09/14

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Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2012ADM760 Jesse James Porter Sr. Decedent W. Alton Lewis 1450 Mercantile Lane Suite 155 Largo, MD 20774 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS

SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Foreign No. 2012FEP72 Date of Death June 13, 2012 Paul Gus Pappas Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT OF FOREIGN PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE AND NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2012ADM782 Margo Cecelia Robinson Decedent Darlene C. Jackson 1220 L Street NW Suite 100 Washington DC 20005 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS

Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2012ADM577 Inetta B. James Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS

Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2012ADM815 Irene Purchas Decedent Wesley L. Clarke 1629 K Street Suite 300 Washington DC 20006 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS

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Jesse J. Porter, Jr., whose address is 600 Ava Circle, NE. Washington DC 20017 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Jesse James Porter, Sr., who died on August 17, 2011 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before February 24, 2013.

Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before February 24, 2013, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Date of Publication: August 24, 2012 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Jesse J. Porter, Jr. Personal Representative 202-345-7685 TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS TYPESET: Tue Sep 04 8/24, 8/31, 9/7

Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2012ADM772 Judith Boykin Fields Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS

Rhodell Gene Fields, Omari Jawhar Fields, and Ayana Kai Fields whose address are 9307 Macswain Pl, Springfield, VA 22153, 6626 Waning Moon Way, Columbia MD. were appointed personal representatives of the estate of Judith Boykin Fields, who died on February 8, 2012 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs a n d h e i r s w h o s e whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before February 24, 2013.

Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before February 24, 2013, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Date of Publication: August 24, 2012 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Rhodell Gene Fields Omari Jawhar Fields Ayana Kai Fields Personal Representatives 703-913-7774 TRUE TEST COPY TYPESET: Sep 04 REGISTER OFTue WILLS 8/24, 8/31, 9/7

Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2012ADM794 Earl Donald Ware, Sr. Decedent Carl V. Angelis 1217 S. Street, NW Washington, DC 20009-4327 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS

Linda Ware, whose address is 2412 Ainger Place, SE, Apt 121 B, Washington, DC 20020-3452 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Earl Donald Ware, who died on March 28, 2012 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before February 28, 2013. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before February 28, 2013, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Date of Publication: August 31, 2012 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Linda Ware Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS 08/31, 09/07, 09/14

Nancy Pappas whose address is 113 Pennsylvania Ave, Westminster, MD 21157 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Paul Gus Pappas, deceased, by the Register of Wills Court for Carroll County, State of Maryland on July 23, 2012.

Service of process may be made upon India C. James, 3135 Apple Road, NE Wa s h i n g t o n D C 2 0 0 1 8 whose designation as District of Columbia agent has been filed with the Register of Wills, D.C. The decedent owned the following District of Colombia real property: 7137 Georgia Ave., NW Washington DC 20012-2333 Claims against the decedent may be presented to the undersigned and filed with the Register of Wills for the District of Columbia, Building A, 515 5th Street NW, 3rd Floor, Washington DC 20001 within 6 months from the date of first publication of this notice. (Strike preceding sentence if no real estate.)

Nancy Pappas Personal Representative(s) 443-244-3014 TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS Date of first publication: August 24, 2012 Name of newspapers and/or periodical: The Daily Washington Law Reporter The Afro-American TYPESET: Tue Sep 04 8/24, 8/31, 9/7

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Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2012ADM423 Grimm Eley Stephenson Decedent Sabina M. Lofty, Esq 1629 K Street, Suite 300 Washington DC 20005 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS

Mamie D. Stephenson, whose address is 2407 21st Place NE, Apt 2 Washington DC 20018 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Grimm Eley Stephenson, who died on September 18, 2002 without a Will, and will serve with Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before February 28, 2013.

Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before February 28, 2013, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Date of Publication: August 31, 2012 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Mamie D. Stephenson Personal Representative 202-529-7570 15:50:12 EDT 2012 TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER WILLS TYPESET:OFTue Sep 04 8/31, 9/7, 9/14

Superior Court of the District of Columbia Civil Division Case No. 0006958-12 IN RE: Donna Maria Harris Applicant ORDER OF PUBLICATION CHANGE OF NAME

Donna Maria Harris having filed a complaint for judgment changing Donna Maria Harris name to Doña Maria Harris and having applied to the court for an Order of Publication of the notice required by law in such cases; it is by the Court this 24th day of August, 2012 hereby.

ORDERED, that a copy of this order be published once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks, in Afro American Newspapers, a newspaper of general circulation of the District of Columbia; and it is further ORDERED, that publication must begin no later than 12 days after the filling of the application; and it is further ORDERED, that the FINAL HEARING on this application to change name will be held in Judge-in-Chambers, Room 4220 In the District of Columbia at 500 Indiana Avenue NW Washington DC 20001, on the 12th day of October, 2012 at 3:30 pm. If any person desires to oppose this application, that person or his or her attorney must be present at the hearing or file written detailed objections five (5) days in advance of the hearing with Judge-in-Chambers and mail a copy to the applicant or applicant’s counsel; and it is further ORDERED, that: (Check all that apply) o the applicant must send the application for change of name and notice of final hearing to the applicant’s creditors personally or by registered or certified mail and show proof or service be made by filing the affidavit/ declaration of service.

SO ORDERED JUDGE A TRUE COPY TEST: CLERK, SUPERIOR COURT THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 09/07, 09/14 & 09/21

Jenell D. Joyner, whose address is 5932 9th Street NW Apt 34, Washington DC 20011 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Margo Cecelia Robinson. who died on November 1, 2011 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before February 28, 2013.

Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before February 28, 2013, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Date of Publication: August 31, 2012 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Jenell D. Joyner Personal Representative 15:48:25 EDT 2012 202-905-3978 TRUE TEST COPY TYPESET: Sep 04 REGISTER OFTue WILLS 8/31, 9/7, 9/14

Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2012ADM781 Eleanor C. Cobbs Decedent Bradley A. Thomas Esq 4201 Connecticut Ave NW Suite 400 Washington DC 20008 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS

Cassandra Hardison aka Cassandra E. Garnes Hardison, whose address is 2751 31st Place NE, Washington DC 20018 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Eleanor C. Cobbs. who died on July 10, 2012 with a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs a n d h e i r s w h o s e whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before February 28, 2013.

Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before February 28, 2013, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Date of Publication: August 31, 2012 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Cassandra Hardison Personal 15:56:52 EDT 2012 Representative 202-832-5307 TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER WILLS TYPESET:OF8/31, Tue Sep 04 9/7, 9/14

Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2012ADM775 Joseph L. Thomas Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS

James E. Tillery whose address is 608 Roxboro Place, NW Washington DC 20011 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Joseph L. Thomas, who died on April 2, 2011 with a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before February 28, 2013.

Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before February 28, 2013, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Date of Publication: August 31, 2012 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter James E. Tillery, Sr. Personal Representatives 202-710-8597 TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS 8/31, 9/7, 9/14

Cecilia Vinson-Payne, whose address is 903 South Orme Street, Arlington, VA 22204 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Inetta B. James, who died on March 31, 1999 without a Will, and will serve with Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before February 28, 2013. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before February 28, 2013, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Date of Publication: August 31, 2012 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Cecilia Vinson-Payne Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY TYPESET: Sep 04 REGISTER OFTue WILLS 08/31, 09/07, 09/14

Superior Court of the District of Columbia 15:48:48 EDT 2012 Civil Division Case No. 0007153-12 IN RE: Sherry M. Adamson Applicant ORDER OF PUBLICATION CHANGE OF NAME

Sherry M. Adamson having filed a complaint for judgment changing Sherry Masume Adamson name to Sherry Adamson and having applied to the court for an Order of Publication of the notice required by law in such cases; it is by the Court this 31st day of August, 2012 hereby.

ORDERED, that a copy of this order be published once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks, in Afro American Newspapers, a newspaper of general circulation of the District of Columbia; and it is further ORDERED, that publication must begin no later than 12 days after the filling of the application; and it is further ORDERED, that the FINAL HEARING on this application to change name will be held in Judge-in-Chambers, Room 4220 In the District of Columbia at 500 Indiana Avenue NW Washington DC 20001, on the 19th day of October, 2012 at 3:30 pm. If any person desires to oppose this application, that person or his or her attorney must be present at the hearing or file written detailed objections five (5) days in advance of the hearing with Judge-in-Chambers and mail a copy to the applicant or applicant’s counsel; and it is further ORDERED, that: (Check all that apply) o the applicant must send the application for change of name and notice of final hearing to the Bankruptcy Court personally or by registered or certified mail and show proof or service be made by filing the affidavit/ declaration of service. o the applicant must send the application for change of name and notice of final hearing to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency, Washington Field Office, 2675 Prosperity Avenue, Fairfax, Virginia 22031 personally or by registered or certified mail and show proof or service be made by filing the affidavit/declaration of service.

SO ORDERED JUDGE A TRUE 15:50:49 EDT COPY 2012TEST: CLERK, SUPERIOR COURT THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA TYPESET: 04 09/07, Tue 09/14Sep & 09/21

Superior Court of the District of Columbia Civil Division Case No. 0006445-12 IN RE: Reisha Rae-Albury Newman Applicant ORDER OF PUBLICATION CHANGE OF NAME

Reisha Rae-Albury Newman having filed a complaint for judgment changing Reisha Rae-Albury name to Celine Renee Newman and having applied to the court for an Order of Publication of the notice required by law in such cases; it is by the Court this 8th day of August, 2012 hereby.

ORDERED, that a copy of this Order be published once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks, in The Afro American Newspapers, a newspaper of general circulation of the District of Columbia; and it is further ORDERED, that publication must begin no later than 12 days after the filling of the application; and it is further ORDERED, that the FINAL HEARING on this application to change name will be held in Judge-in-Chambers, Room 4220 In the District of Columbia at 500 Indiana Avenue NW Washington DC 20001, on the 28th day of September, 2012 at 3:00 pm.

If any person desires to oppose this application, that person or his or her attorney must be present at the hearing or file written detailed objections five (5) days in advance of the hearing with Judge-in-Chambers and mail a copy to the applicant or applicant’s counsel; and it is further ORDERED, that: (Check all that apply) 8/24, 8/31, 9/7

Action Involving Property VICKI JEFFRIES 11805 Brookeville Landing Court Mitchellville, MD 20721 PLAINTIFF vs.

THE ESTATE OF ESTHER MAY WIRE Serve: ESTHA WIRE WALPER, Execturix P.O. Box 1086 Pinehurst, NC 28370 and THE ESTATE OF CHARLES E. WIRE Wesley L. Clarke, whose ad- Serve: MARVIN M. WIRE, dress is 1629 K Street, NW, Executor # 3 0 0 , Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C . P.O. Box 1086 20006 was appointed per- Pinehurst, NC 28370 sonal representative of the and estate of Irene Purchas, who THE ESTATE OF ESTHER died on August 23rd, 2010 MAY WIRE without a Will, and will serve Serve: MARVIN M. WIRE, without Court supervision. All Executor unknown heirs and heirs 105 North Forth Street whose whereabouts are un- Lakeside, Oregon 97449 and known shall enter their appearance in this proceed- THE ESTATE OF CHARLES WIRE, JR. ing. Objections to such appointment shall be filed Serve: C. RAYMOND WIRE, with the Register of Wills, Executor D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3911 Bradley Lane 3rd Floor Washington, D.C. Chevy Chase, MD 20815 20001, on or before March and 07, 2013. Claims against the THE ESTATE OF ESTHA decedent shall be presented WIRE WALPER to the undersigned with a Serve: PRESTON E. WIRE, copy to the Register of Wills SR, Executor or filed with the Register of P.O. Box 1086 Wills with a copy to the Pinehurst, NC 28370 undersigned, on or before and March 07,2013, or be forever THE ESTATE OF PRESTON barred. Persons believed to E. WIRE, SR be heirs or legatees of the PRESTON W. WIRE, SR, decedent who do not receive Executor a copy of this notice by mail 4925 Loughboro Road, NW within 25 days of its first pub- Washington, DC 20016 lication shall so inform the and Register of Wills, including THE ESTATE OF PRESTON name, address and relation- W. WIRE 4925 Loughboro Road, NW ship.

Washington,DC 20016 Date of Publication: and September 07, 2012 THE ESTATE OF JEAN Name of newspaper: WIRE MURPHY Afro-American JEAN WIRE MURPHY Washington Law 15:53:48 EDT 2012 3069 University Terrace, NW Reporter Wesley L. Clarke Washington, DC 20016 Personal and Representative THE ESTATE OF JOAN 202-257-9730 MYRL WIRE WOOD JOAN MYRL WIRE WOOD TRUE TEST COPY 5500 Stewart Street REGISTER OFTue WILLS TYPESET: Sep 04 15:56:23 EDT 2012 09/07, 09/14 & 09/21 Milton, Florida 32570 and THE ESTATE OF MARVIN M. WIRE Superior Court of Serve: MARVIN WIRE, JR., the District of Executor Columbia 105 North Forth Street Civil Division Lakeside, Oregon 97449 Case No. 0006965-12 and MARVIN WIRE, JR., IN RE: EXECUTOR Eddie Scott Polonio 105 North Forth Street Applicant Lakeside, Oregon 97449 ORDER OF and PUBLICATION THE ESTATE OF RAYCHANGE OF NAME MOND WIRE Eddie Scott Polonio having 3911 Bradley Lane filed a complaint for judgment Chevy Chase, MD 20815 c h a n g i n g E d d i e S c o t t and Polonio name to Eddie Don’e THE ESTATE OF MINNIE Polonio and having applied LEE WIRE to the court for an Order of Serve: MARVIN WIRE, JR., Publication of the notice re- Executor quired by law in such cases; it 105 North Forth Street is by the Court this 23rd day Lakeside, Oregon 97449 of August, 2012 hereby. and ORDERED, that a copy of THE ESTATE OF MARthis order be published once GARET WIRE a week for three (3) consecu- Serve: MARVIN WIRE, JR., tive weeks, in Afro American Executor Newspapers, a newspaper of THE DISTRICT OF COLUMgeneral circulation of the Dis- BIA trict of Columbia; and it is fur- Serve: Vincent Gray, Mayor ther 1350 Pennsylvania Avenue, ORDERED, that publication NW must begin no later than 12 Washington, DC 20004 days after the filling of the ap- and TYPESET: Sep 04 15:24:08 EDT OF 2012 plication; andTue it is further THE DISTRICT COLUMORDERED, that the FINAL BIA HEARING on this application Serve: Office of Attorney to change name will be held General for the District of i nINJTHE u d g eSUPERIOR - i n - C h a m b e r s , Columbia COURT OF Room 4220 In theTHE District of Attn: Darlene Fields DISTRICT OFIndiana 441 4th Street NW, Suite Columbia at 500 Avenue NW Washington DC 1060N COLUMBIA 20001, on DIVISION the 12th day of Washington, DC 20001 CIVIL October, at 3:30 Civil 2012 Action No. pm. If and any person desires to op- All Unknown owners of the 2005 this CA 2912 L (RP)that pose application, property described below, Action Involving person or his orProperty her attorney their heirs, devisees, perVICKI must JEFFRIES be present at the hear- sonal representatives, and 11805 ing orBrookeville file writtenLanding detailed executors, administrators, Court objections five (5) days in ad- grantees, assigns or succesMitchellville, MD 20721 vance of the hearing with sors in right, title, interest, PLAINTIFF Judge-in-Chambers and mail and all persons having or vs. a copy to the applicant or ap- claiming to have any interest THE ESTATE OF and ESTHER plicant’s counsel; it is fur- in the leasehold or fee MAY therWIRE simplein the property and Serve: ESTHA WIRE WALORDERED, that: (Check all premisis in the District of PER, Execturix that apply) Columbia described as folP.O. Box 1086 o the applicant must send the lows: Pinehurst, NC for 28370 application change of Square 4065, LOT 0801: and name and notice of final With cross streets at Neal THE ESTATE hearing to OF the CHARLES applicant’s E.creditors WIRE personally or by Street to the north, West Virginia Avenue to the west, Serve: MARVIN M. WIRE, registered or certified mail Montello Avenue to the east, Executor and show proof or service be and Morse Avenue to the P.O. Box 1086 made by filing the affidavit/ south and adjacent to and Pinehurst, NCof28370 declaration service. abutting the east of 1167 and SO ORDERED Neal Street in NE, WashingTHE ESTATE OF ESTHER JUDGE ton, D.C. MAY WIRE A TRUE COPY TEST: Defendants.

Serve: MARVIN M. CLERK, WIRE, ORDER OF Executor SUPERIOR COURT THE PUBLICATION 105 North Forth Street DISTRICT OFTue COLUMBIA TYPESET: Sep 04 15:58:53 EDTwith 2012 In accordance D.C. OfLakeside,09/07, Oregon 97449 09/14 & 09/21 ficial Code §47-1375, the and object of this proceeding is to THE ESTATE OF CHARLES secure the foreclosure of the WIRE, JR. Superior Court of right of redemption in the folServe: C. RAYMOND WIRE, the District of lowing real property located Executor District of Columbia in the District of Columbia, 3911 Bradley Lane 15:46:27 EDT 2012 and sold by the Mayor of the PROBATE DIVISION Chevy Chase, MD 20815 District of Columbia to the and Washington, D.C. Plaintiff in this action and asTHE ESTATE OF ESTHA 20001-2131 sessed to THE ESTATE OF WIRE WALPER Administration No. ESTHER MAY WIRE, THE Serve: PRESTON E. WIRE, ESTATE OF CHARLES ED2012ADM822 SR, Executor WIN WITH and/or their P.O. Box 1086James, JR Lawrence known and unknown heirs, Pinehurst, NC 28370 Decedent which property is described and NOTICE OF as Square 4065, Lot 0801, THE ESTATE OF PRESTON APPOINTMENT, located between Morse E. WIRE, SR Street to the south, West VirNOTICE TO SR, PRESTON W. WIRE, ginia Avenue to the west, Executor CREDITORS Montello Avenue to the east, 4925 AND Loughboro Road, NW NOTICE TO and Neal Street to the north Washington, DC 20016 in NE adjacent to and and UNKNOWN HEIRS Natasha James-Waldon, abutting the east side of 1167 THE ESTATE OF PRESTON whose W. WIREaddress is 621 Lee Neal Street.

Street, Perth Amboy, New The complaint states, among 4925 Loughboro Road, NW Jersey, 08861 was appointed o t h e r t h i n g s , t h a t t h e Washington,DC 20016 personal representative of amounts necessary for reand demption have not been the estate Lawrence THE ESTATEof OF JEAN James, JR, who died on July paid.

WIRE MURPHY 26th, WIRE 2012 MURPHY with a Will, and P u r s u a n t t o t h e C h i e f JEAN 3069 University Terrace, NW will serve without Court su- Judge´s Administration OrWashington, 20016 heirs der Number 02-11, it is this pervision. AllDC unknown and a n d h e i r s w h o s e 27th day of August 2012.

ORDERED by the Superior THE ESTATE are OFunknown JOAN whereabouts MYRL WIREtheir WOOD shall enter appearance Court of the District of ColumJOAN MYRL WIRE WOOD in this proceeding. Objec- bia, that notice be given by the insertion of a copy of this 5500 Street tionsStewart to such appointment order in The Afro-American Milton, Florida 32570 shall be filed with the Regis- Newspaper, having a general and ter of Wills, D.C., 515 5th circulation in the District of THE ESTATE OF3rd MARVIN Street, N.W., Floor Columbia, once a week for M. WIRE Washington, D.C. 20001, on three (3) successive weeks, Serve: MARVIN WIRE, JR., or before March 07, 2013. n o t i f y i n g a l l p e r s o n s Executor Claims against the decedent interested in the real property 105 North Forth Street shall be Oregon presented to the described above to appear in Lakeside, 97449 undersigned with a copy to this Court by the 12th day of and the Register of Wills or December 2012, and reM A R V I N W I R E , J Rfiled ., with the Register of Wills with deem the real property by EXECUTOR a copy to the undersigned, on payment of $65,530.95, to105 North Forth Street or beforeOregon March 07,2013, Lakeside, 97449 or gether with interest from the be forever barred. Persons date of real property tax cerand believed to beOFheirs THE ESTATE RAY-or tificate was purchased; court MOND WIRE legatees of the decedent who costs and attorney’s fees, ex3911 Bradley Lane do not receive a copy of this penses incurred in the pubChevy 20815 noticeChase, by mailMD within 25 days lication and service of procand of its first publication shall so ess by publication and for THE ESTATE OF MINNIE inform the Register of Wills, reasonable fees for the title LEE WIREname, address and search, all other amounts including paid by the petitioner in Serve: MARVIN WIRE, JR., relationship. accordance with the proviExecutor Date of Publication: sions of D.C. Code §47-1361 105 North Forth September 07, Street 2012 through 1377 (2001 ed), et Lakeside, Oregon 97449 Name of newspaper: seq., or answer the complaint and Afro-American or, thereafter, a final judgTHE ESTATE OF MARWashington ment will be entered foreclosGARET WIRELaw Reporter ing the right of redemption in Serve: MARVIN WIRE, JR., Natasha James-Waldon the real property and vesting Executor Personal in the plaintiff a title in fee simTHE DISTRICT OF COLUMRepresentative ple.

BIA Magistate Judge 732-826-8186 Serve: Vincent Gray, Mayor J.E. Beshouri TRUE TEST COPYAvenue, 1350 Pennsylvania A TRUE TEST COPY: REGISTER OF WILLS NW 09/07, 09/14 & 09/21 09/07, & 09/21 Washington, DC09/14 20004 and THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

LEGAL NOTICES

Serve: Office of Attorney General for the DistrictOF of SUPERIOR COURT Columbia THE DISTRICT Attn: Darlene Fields OF 441 4thCOLUMBIA Street NW, Suite PROBATE DIVISION 1060N Washington, DC 20001 Washington, D.C. and 20001-2131 All Administration Unknown owners No. of the property described below, 2012ADM814 their heirs, devisees, perEstaterepresentatives, of sonal and Wilhemena Alexander executors, administrators, Deceased grantees, assigns or successors inNOTICE right, title, OFinterest, and allSTANDARD persons having or claimingPROBATE to have any interest in the isleasehold orthat feea Notice hereby given simplein thebeen property petition has filed in and this premisis in the District of Court by Wesley L. Clarke for Columbia describedincluding as folstandard probate, lows: the appointment of one or Square 4065, LOT 0801: more personal representaWith cross astreets at or Neal tive. Unless complaint an Street to the north, West Virobjection in accordance with ginia Avenue the west, Superior CourttoProbate DiMontello Avenue theineast, vision Rule 407 isto filed this and Avenue to the CourtMorse within 30 days from the south and adjacent date of first publicationtoofand this abutting the east of 1167 notice, the Court may take Neal Street in NE, Washingthe action hereinafter set ton, forth.D.C. Defendants.

0 in the absence of a will or ORDER OF to the proof satisfactory PUBLICATION Court of due execution, enter In accordance with D.C. an order determining that Ofthe ficial Code §47-1375, decedent died intestate. the object of this proceeding is to 0 appoint an unsupervised secure the foreclosure of the personal representative. right of redemption in of theWills folRegister lowing real property located Clerk of the in the District of Columbia, Probate Division and by the Mayor of the Datesold of First Publication District of Columbia to the August 31, 2012 Plaintiff in this action and asNames of Newspapers: sessed to THE ESTATE OF Washington ESTHER MAY WIRE, THE Law Reporter ESTATE OF CHARLES EDWashington WIN WITH and/or their AFRO-AMERICAN known unknown heirs, Wesley and L. Clarke which 1629 Kproperty street is described as Square 4065, Lot 0801, Suite 300 located between Morse Washington DC 20006 Street to the Signature of south, West Virginia Avenue to the west, Petitioners/Attorney TYPESET: Tue Sep 04 Montello Avenue to the 8/31, 9/7,east, 9/14 and Neal Street to the north in NE adjacent to and abutting the east side ofof 1167 Superior Court Neal Street. the District of The complaint states, among o tDistrict h e r t h i nof g sColumbia , that the PROBATE DIVISION amounts necessary for reWashington, D.C. demption have not been paid. 20001-2131 P uAdministration r s u a n t t o t h e No. Chief Judge´s2010ADM41 Administration Order Number 02-11, it is this Harmon 27th day ofBethea August 2012.

Decedent by the Superior ORDERED AnitaofIsicson Court the District of Columbia, that notice be given by 4616 Fessenden the insertion Street, NWof a copy of this order in The WashingtonAfro-American DC 20016 Newspaper, having a general Attorney in the District of circulation NOTICE Columbia, once aOF week for AFTER weeks, three (3) successive n o t i fDISCOVERED ying all persons interested in theAND real property WILL described above toOF appear in NOTICE this Court by the 12th day of APPOINTMENT, December 2012, and reAnita Isicson, whose address deem the real property by is 4616 Fessenden Street, payment of $65,530.95, toNW, Washington,D.C. 20016 gether with interest from the was appointed personal redate of real property tax cerpresentative of the estate of tificate was purchased; court Harmon Bethea, who died on costs and attorney’s fees, exDecember 18, 2009 with a penses incurred in the pubWill. Objections to such lication and service of procappointment or to the proess by publication and for bate of decedent’s Will shall reasonable fees for the title be filed with the Register of search, all other amounts Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, paid by the petitioner in N.W., 3rd Floor Washington, accordance with the proviD.C. 20001, on or before sions of D.C. Code §47-1361 October 7, 2012. Date of through 1377 (2001 ed), et Publication: seq., or answer the complaint September 07, 2012 or, thereafter, a final judgName of newspaper: ment will be entered foreclosAfro-American ing the right of redemption in Washington Law the real property and vesting Reporter in the plaintiff a title in fee simAnita Isicson ple.

Personal Magistate Judge Representative J.E. Beshouri 202.237.7400 A TRUE TEST COPY: TRUE TEST COPY 09/07, 09/14 & 09/21 REGISTER OF WILLS 09/07,Wed 09/14 & 09/21 TYPESET: Sep 05

Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2012ADM825 Linda Diane Daye Decedent Bradley A. Thomas, Esq. 4201 Connecticut Ave, NW, Suite 400 Washington DC 20008 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS

Alexis J. Daye, whose address is 163 Uhland Terrace, NE, Washington,D.C. 20002 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Linda Diane Daye, who died on June 8, 2012 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before March 07, 2013.

Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before March 07,2013, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Date of Publication: September 07, 2012 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Alexis J. Daye Personal Representative 202.465.2018 TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS 09/07, 09/14 & 09/21

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