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Town-Gown Duo Prevails gown, which is in stark relief in Ward 22.

by PAUL BASS New Haven Independent

“We all have to live here,” she said at the polls at Wexler-Grant School Tuesday night. When she was growing up, she said, “there was an unwritten rule” that Yale and the city don’t mix. “I never bought into that,” she said.

A team of candidates representing the Dixwell neighborhood and a bordering sliver of Yale University scored a clear victory in a crowded ward committee election.

The five-way election for two open 22nd Democratic Ward Committee co-chairs took place Tuesday. It was the only one of 30 wards in town to have a contested co-chair race. Ward committees’ main function is to endorse candidates for elected office, though some committees take on broader communitybuilding roles; each ward has two co-chairs.

The 22nd Ward is split between the Dixwell neighborhood and Yale’s Ezra Stiles and Morse residential

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Dancy, Diaz thank supporters Tuesday night.

colleges.

Victoria Dancy, a project manager and part-time adjunct at Gateway Community College, ran for co-chair as a team with Yale student Gabrielle Diaz.

They captured 189 and 194 votes at the machines, according to the

final tally (including absentee ballots).

The ward’s alder, Jeanette Morrison, worked hard on their campaign. Morrison said she has tried since first winning her alder position five years ago to bridge the divide between town and

“We are so excited to work with you all,” Diaz told two dozen or so supporters who gathered inside the entryway to the Wexler-Grant polling station.

“We are so excited to work with Jeanette.”

Dancy thanked opponents Cordelia Thorpe, Angela Watley, and Helen Powell for “this wonderful race.” Thorpe, who was an incumbent, captured 81 votes; Watley, 81; Powell, 54.

“It’s hard to beat a machine,” Watley remarked.

Author’s Corner: Markia Jones

by Christian Lewis,

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ICN Staff Writer I had the pleasure of meeting and connecting with another author from New Haven, Markia Jones; she’s a poetry writer, an actress, and a playwright. She’s such a sweet-hearted person, and down to earth. Markia is currently writing her first play, which is titled, The Good Man. I hope you all enjoy her interview and grab copies of both of her poetry books, which are titled, My Thoughts and Truth Serum.

Allow me to present to some and introduce to others, Author, Playwright & Actress Markia Jones.

Where are you from?

English class I fell in love with it.

I wrote a poem and I loved it! I started writing more and more and the rest is history. Writing is my outlet. It allows me to express my feelings with no filter and no care of what anyone thinks. It doesn’t talk back, judge me, or argue with me...it just allows me to be me. I always say poetry is my therapy.

Is there anything in particular you find difficult in writing?

I don’t necessarily find anything difficult with writing, but I don’t like to writer’s block. It annoys me, but when I come out of it, I’m a force to be reckoned with! Lol Do you see writing as a career?

I was born and raised and New Haven.

I definitely can see writing as a career. Would I do it as my only career, No.

When & why did you begin writing?

What books have most influenced your life?

I began writing in the 9th grade.

When I learned about poetry in

PUSH, by Sapphire, and The Coldest Winter Ever, by Sista

Souljah. These books are so powerful and deep to me. I like when I’m reading a book and can imagine myself there or imagine what’s going on in the scene I’m reading. I get all that and more from these two books.

Are experiences based on someone you know or are they your own?

More than half of my poetry is my own experiences. My poetry is basically an open book to my life.

If you had to choose a writer as a mentor, who would it be?

ven.

What was the hardest part about writing your books?

There was nothing hard about it because they were a collection of poems that I wrote from the heart. In my eyes, there’s nothing hard about writing from the heart.

Do you have anything specific you want to say to your readers?

I want my readers to know that I appreciate them and I hope that my poetry can help at least one person through their situations. If I can help at least 1 person, then my job is complete.

This is kind of hard because I actually have 2 writers I would choose as mentors. They would be Sista Souljah and Zane.

Where can interested readers find your books?

Are you self-published or did you sign on with a publisher?

What is your preferred method for readers to get in contact with you or follow you?

My books were published through a local publisher, Sonje Williams. Her publishing company is called You 2 Books and it’s based Downtown in New Ha-

I have my books on hand.

Anyone interested in purchasing a copy can contact me via email. My email address is mrkjones82@gmail.com.

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efitting from the ex-prisoners’ bounty: A project the four lifelong friends launched themselves.

They call it “365 Entertainment.”

As in the 365 years they were supposed to rot in jail.

by PAUL BASS New Haven Independent

Darcus Henry tasted freedom in the form of two pieces of mint chewing gum.

Henry wasn’t allowed to chew gum during the 13 and 1/2 years he spent in prison along with three lifelong friends from Quinnipiac Terrace for a murder they claimed they didn’t commit.

Never “Forever” MELISSA BAILEY PHOTO Henry with son Darcus Jr. upon his release from custody.

Darcus Henry didn’t used to be someone with money to throw around. He grew up in Fair Haven’s Quinnipiac Terrace public-housing development. The Old Q Terrace. The rundown, drug-infested projects that the rg/ index.php/archives/entry/ this_is_public_housing/”city later tore down and rebuilt.

They were supposed to spend their full lives in prison for that murder. Henry’s sentence was 100 years.

Inside Cheshire Correctional and MacDougall-Walker Correctional Institutions, the rules forbade chewing gum. Henry missed it. He thought about it.

And he believed that once day that he’d be free again.

That belief turned true. The Connecticut Supreme Court ordered Henry and his three friends freed in 2013 because the state had messed up at their trial. The state’s key witness had testified that he hadn’t struck a deal to have any charges reduced in any separate criminal cases against him. It turned out he had. And the state hadn’t corrected the record.

On July 25, 2013, Henry and his three friends Seth Adams, Carlos Ashe, and Johnny Johnson

PAUL BASS PHOTOS Henry:

jailed for life, then released & recompensed.

walked out of state Superior Court on New Haven’s Church Street (in video) into the arms of their family and into freedom.

opening it as soon as I purchased it,” popped two sticks into his mouth.

Henry looked forward to that first stick of gum. But it was daylight out, and the month of Ramadan. Henry had converted to Islam while in prison. He couldn’t eat until sundown.

“It was good to chew gum to be able to do something that you wanted to do that they told you couldn’t do. I had the freedom to chew gum, to make that decision to chew gum.”

“When the sun went down around 8:30, I went to the 24hour” store on Whalley Avenue, he recalled.

Henry, who is 40 years old, talked about his life’s changing fortunes during an appearance on WNHH radio’s “Dateline New Haven” show. His case has returned to the headlines, because

He selected a pack of Trident mint-flavord gum. “I started

He was free.

the state awarded Henry and his three friends $4.2 million apiece to compensate for the years they lost behind bars. That case has proved controversial; the state claims commissioner who awarded the money has resigned in part over some public officials’ criticism that he shouldn’t have awarded the money.

Henry’s mother and grandmother, the late Dalzenia and Virginia Henry, were tenant leaders at the old Quinnipiac. They started a group called Tenants Against Drugs Dammit! They also organized kids’ activities.

Henry said he grew up with plenty to do, with no sense of lacking because he was poor.

Henry shrugged off that criticism during the WNHH interview. He spoke instead of the way people he’s always known and some he hasn’t have reacted to his receipt of the money.

He was 20 years old, living in West Haven and working as a barber, on Dec. 14, 1996 when a group of men shot at another group of men at 2 a.m. at the

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#BlackGirlMagic I’m So Here For It! women and girls in ways that nothing else has. It’s all about confidence and soul and excitement, and the grind and the hustle and our struggle and our beauty. We know as Women and girls of Color we are unique and extraordinary, but so often we are not celebrated for all the amazing things we gift to the world. #BlackGirlMagic includes all of us from every walk of life, Celebrity Women, Teachers, Lawyers, Politicians, Doc-

tors, Authors, Students, Mothers, Daughters, Cousins and Friends, and Sorors. Each of us lifting and sharing and building on legacies and histories that have shaped us and defined us and carried us to this present moment.

Yes, there are those that say #BlackGirlMagic is superficial and does nothing to address discrimination and economic disparity and so many other ills plaguing us as people of Color around the world. That would

be true on some level. I will not argue that point. However, I do know that we need #BlackGirlMagic to wrap around us like our own super power. Why can’t we see ourselves magical? Why can’t we see ourselves as incredible, strong and resilient Women of Color? We make it happen and often looking fabulous! So Cheers and Hooray to us as we take this hashtag as our cape and move through the world connected and in love.

#BlackGirlsRock #BlackGirlBrilliance (my hashtag) #BlackGirlMagic!

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We are in the height of social media usage from everything to social justice activism, affirmations and personal discovery. Hashtags are a way to tag a topic of interest so that others may find and follow and or stand in solidarity with.

There are hashtags for EVERYTHING! I’ve started a few myself. But my most favorite viral hashtag is BLACK GIRL MAGIC! YES! Black Girl Magic just expresses the essences of Black

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Dr. Seuss Would Have Been Proud Curt Leng read to a class of third graders at Church Street School in Hamden.

by STAFF More than 75 volunteers gathered among eight schools Tuesday to get over 2,500 students excited about reading and to celebrate Dr. Seuss’ birthday. The lesson of the day: Reading is fun!

The volunteer reading took place in eight schools, reaching over 100 classrooms and 2,500 students in New Haven, Hamden, and West Haven; and featured more than 90 community volunteers from Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven Police Department, Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Yale University’s West Campus and more. United Way and its partners also donated a set of Dr. Seuss’s classics to each of the 100 classroom libraries.

“It’s really important that we read [with our children],” Mayor Toni Harp said. Studies show children who read frequently develop stronger reading skills.

In fact, children who are read to several times a week gain

The reading celebration, part of the national Read Across America Day, was organized by United Way of Greater New Haven to honor Dr. Seuss’ birthday by engaging the community in the effort to foster a love of reading among our youngest students.

New Haven Police recruits were among the volunteers.

more than a year’s advantage in reading levels by age 15.

“Reading proficiency by third grade is the most important predictor of high school graduation and career success,” Laoise King, vice president of education initiatives at United Way of Greater New Haven,

said. “Yet every year, more than 80 percent of low-income children miss this crucial milestone. We are here today to support them, to get them excited about reading, and most importantly do our part to ensure this milestone is no longer missed.”

Read Across America Day, which celebrates Dr. Seuss’s birthday and the joys of reading, expects more than 45 million readers throughout the country, both young and old, to pick up a book and read.

“A person’s a person no matter how small,” Hamden Mayor

“The benefits of reading are so far reaching that it is something that is definitely worthwhile, and I would ask every parent with school children read at least a half hour each day,” West Haven Mayor Edward O’Brien said as he highlighted the importance of reading. Hamden and West Haven joined New Haven in United Way’s annual Read Across America day celebrations for the first time this year.

“We are excited about partnering with United Way and their efforts to encourage student success,” Leng said.

Harp Budget Holds Line On Taxes “We’re really proud we can do something in these areas. Many cities cannot,” Harp said.

by PAUL BASS

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New Haven Independent

Mayor Toni Harp Monday released a proposed $525 million general fund budget for the coming fiscal year that boosts spending on libraries and school-based nurses while avoiding a tax increase.

In fact, some New Haveners would see taxes go slightly down car taxes, which under a new state law will be capped at 32 mills. The overall mill rate would remain at 41.55.

The administration by law needed to present a budget by Tuesday to the Board of Alders, which will now commence months of deliberations on it.

“With a solid financial foundation, all plans are possible,”

Three big factors enabled Harp to propose increases without raising taxes:

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Harp announcing new budget proposal.

Harp declared at a City Hall press conference.

Her proposed budget would raise the city’s contribution to the public schools by $5 million over this year, to $185 million. The Board of Ed voted last week to seek a $7.5 million increase.

The proposed budget would add seven school-based nurse positions as well as three city librarians.

In addition, the Harp administration plans to add $6 milliion to shore up the city’s various medical and pension plans.

The city is counting on state aid to increase rchives by $15.6 million as a new law takes effect governing the Payments in Lieu of Taxes (PILOT) formula for reimbursing cities for tax-exempt properties. Harp and city finance officials said they’re still counting on that money even though the state is preparing massive cuts to plug a sudden $1 billion deficit for the coming year. If that changes, Harp said, then the city would make cuts, too. -mayormonday“On WNHH radio’s “Dateline New Haven” program Monday, Mayor Harp said she

believes New Haven’s clout at the state Capitol both State Senate President Martin Looney and State Rep. Toni Walker, co-chair of the legislature’s Appropriations Committee, come from the city augurs well for protecting that money. Reached Monday afternoon, Rep. Walker said it’s too early to know for sure. She envisions some cuts to cities, probably in education, but not necessarily in PILOT. “It’s going to be difficult. I can’t guarantee anything right now,” Walker said.

“Right now we’re still going through the reviewing process.

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New Haven Reads Grows

by ALLAN APPEL

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New Haven Independent

For years one of the city’s premier tutoring programs has had to say “I’m sorry” to a long waiting list of kids who desperately need help to start reading at an early age.

That’s about to change, as New Haven Reads Friday morning cut the ribbon on a shining new 2,000 square foot site in the Marlin Building business complex at 85 Willow St., the organization’s fourth site in town.

The location, in a renovated space on the second floor of the old Marlin firearms factory’s Building A, will be home to about 150 tutors and their new kids, mainly from grades kindergarten through fifth, for a once-a-week sessions. The site will open early in April, said New Haven Reads Executive Director Kirsten Levinsohn.

A battery of already excellent readers and writers of the _news_lives_east_rock_record_launched/ ”East Rock Community Magnet School newspaper The East Rock Record were in attendance for the opening festivities.

They sat in the first row in the brightly lit and painted new space paying rapt reportorial attention to speakers, who included Mayor Toni Harp, and New Haven State Reps. Roland Lemar and Toni Walker and State Sen. Gary Winfield.

These officials, who helped secure grant money for the new center, used small red, blue, and green colored kid scissors to cut the ribbon.

Levinsohn said that the state’s recent $160,000 grant for two years to New Haven Reads has helped mightily in the 15-year-old organization’s

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Rock Record reporter Natalie Maynard (at right) grills the politicians.

ability to open this fourth New Haven site. The other three are all in the Dixwell/ Science Park area.

The organization currently serves about 500 kids with 400 tutors, largely in one-on-one tutoring, but also with a summer program, clubs, and a book bank, she reported.

NHR is known for being highly organized and evidence based, with a structured, productive hour tailored to each child. About 95 percent of the kids in the program raise their reading levels, some dramatically, said Susan Netter.

Nette, a former high school English teacher, has been an NHR tutor for seven years.

Netter said she is currently reading graphic action material with a boy tutee and a book called The School Mouse with her girl tutee. The girl has a pet hamster at home, named Hazel.

“She loves mice.”

The tutors get to know their kids and their school and home lives well, becoming mentors.

About 46 percent of the tutors have been with their kids for two years or more, said the group’s outreach coordinator, Keri Humphries. Levinsohn has been tutoring the same two kids for six years. One of them calls her her “fairy godmother,” she reported.

Winfield told a story to the young reporters from The East

Rock Record of how a single book about the civil rights movement lying on the shelf in his childhood home got his attention. He said he didn’t think the book, the only one in the house, had even been read by his father. Winfield picked it up. It drew him in, led him to other books,and to other opportunities, and, in effect, transformed his life, he told the kids.

He said he frequently drops

by NHR, especially in the summer, and reads to the kids. “I’m a serial reader. I’m a [NHR] board member. I’m all in,” he said.

One of the The East Rock Record reporters asked Winfield the prescription for

converting a kid to reading.

“I’m an advocate of a kid reading whatever they want,” just as he had done, Winfield responded.

Levinsohn said the facility a month ago did not have the spiffy new rugs, furniture, books, and paint job, but now it does. The center still needs new iPads, tablets, and educational games to help kids read.

That’s all itemized on the website, where people can go to contribute.

About 45 percent of the group’s tutors are college students, many from Yale and Southern. The new site’s proximity to the East Rock neighborhood will be a plus for tutor recruitment. The location, so close to Wilbur Cross High School, will also make it easier to recruit more tutors there; currently about 50 of the 400 tutors are high school kids, said Tanya Smith, the group’s educational director.

And, of course, East Rock Community Magnet School is right across Willow Street from the new site.

Access to tutors will now no longer be a schlep across town for the many Fair Haven kids involved in the program, and the new site is both along a bus line and also almost within sight of the exit from Highway 91, making it easier for tutors, for example, from the Shoreline communities to come to their after-school appointments and to park easily at the Wilbur Cross High School parking lot.

The annual budget of New Haven Reads is $650,000, with about half coming from individual donations, and half from foundations’ support and other grants, Levinsohn added.

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expects to have as many as 1,700 workers there.

by ALIYYA SWABY New Haven Independent

Winstanley broke ground on the development in June 2013, with the intention of having it ready in 2015.

Alexion Pharmaceuticals finished moving back home to New Haven after almost 16 years in the suburbs, and opened the doors to 1,200 new downtown workers and counting.

Yale University President Peter Salovey said Monday he is “proud to give the building back and let them move in.”

Born in Science Park in 1992 before moving to Cheshire in 2000, Alexion recommitted to New Haven when promised up to $51 million in state aid from Gov. Dannel Malloy, contributing to an effort to reverse suburban-oriented planning around Route 34.

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the problem.” She said she’d like to see the state explore alternative ideas like legalizing, and taxing, marijuana.

• The Harp administration is expecting income from building permit fees to hit $15 million this year because of development projects planned by Yale and Yale-New Haven Hospital, among others. The city took in $12 million in permit fees this year and $17 million the year before, according to Budget Director Joe Clerkin. Both those totals exceeded city budget estimates.

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City, state officials celebrate opening Monday.

as families helped by the company’s medical output, gathered Monday morning to celebrate the completion and opening of Alexion’s new $100 million 14-story headquarters at 100 College St. Alexion CEO David Hallal

said the new building will bring together the company’s employees under one roof for a shared purpose.

“It’s a place that will nurture the highest levels of scientific collaboration and innovation to benefit our patients,” Hallal said.

Alexion originally signed a lease with developer Carter Winstanley to take up threefourths of the building at 100 College St., with Yale taking up the rest. Then the company’s officials realized it had grown enough that it would need the whole space. Alexion now

At Monday’s celebration, Hallal pointed out families in the audience who have benefited from the biopharmaceutical company’s drugs fitting he said, since Monday was Global Rare Disease Day, raising awareness of diseases affecting only hundreds or thousands of people around the world.

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The company’s best known drug is Soliris, which treats patients with two rare lifethreatening blood disorders, paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH) and Con’t on page 19

Ms. White received the Thurgood Marshall Award

• The hiring of three new firefighter classes has slashed overtime costs. A year ago overtime costs sometimes topped $250,000 a week, Harp said.

Now they’re running at about $30,000 a week, according to city Controller Daryl Jones. He said the proposed budget conservatively estimates the weekly cost at $36,000.

At Quinnipiac Law School In

Jones said the city’s not adding to the rainy day fund this year, which it increased to $1.2 million last year (which was higher than before, but still far below industry standards). Jones and Clerkin said the higher priority this year was to shore up retirement and medical funds.

Black Firefighters.

attendance to support Ms. White were Billy Augustine, President of the New Haven Firebirds and Gary Tinney Director of the Northeast Region of the International Association of Professional

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Fairfield University: No Evidence That Students Were In Brown Makeup or Blackface

by Christine Stuart Fairfield University officials said Tuesday that based on their investigation thus far, they don’t believe that any of the students who attended a racially themed party this past weekend were “wearing brown makeup or were in blackface.”

University officials launched an investigation Monday into an off-campus party that was reportedly advertised as a “ghetto” themed event, but which other students complained was racial in nature.

“We have received no confirmation that any students were wearing brown makeup or were in black face at this party.

We have seen no photographic evidence and students who have been interviewed have also given no indication that that occurred,” Teddy DeRosa, associate director of Public Relations & Community Relations, said in a statement.

University officials have thus

far been unable to determine whether other photographs circulated on the Internet and shared with university officials and news media were taken at the party. The university is still investigating.

Meanwhile, there will be a student-led forum Wednesday on campus to talk about the incident.

“It is meant to be an open dialogue forum for students to not only talk about the party, but to also talk about why it happened, what are the issues surrounding it, etc. The forum is

only open to the campus community,” DeRosa said.

Anif McDonald, president of the Fairfield University Student Association, said the event that occurred over the weekend “perpetuated stereotypes surrounding diversity, and was also very upsetting for those students who are from diverse cultures.”

in dialogue with friends around this issue regardless of how uncomfortable it may be. I am proud to be a student at Fairfield University, and I am encouraged that students, along with faculty, staff and administration can work together to make this campus the best that it can be.”

He said the incident “does not reflect the Jesuit mission of Fairfield University or the deep cultural values that the university stands for.”

Fairfield is a private, Jesuit and Catholic university with an enrollment of about 3,500 undergraduate and 1,200 graduate students. According to CollegeData.com, tuition and expenses at Fairfield University total $61,275 annually.

McDonald added: “I have encouraged my peers to engage

Learn To Swim With LEAP LEAP is preparing for another season of swimming lessons.

LEAP, the youth academics and recreation agency, is providing swim lessons for a fee for children and adults who want to learn to swim or who already know the basics but want to improve their skills.

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Classes are currently provided for children ages 5 to 15, and adults 18 and up. All participants may take swim classes whether they are in LEAP’s regular programs or not. Swim classes are provided at the agency’s pool at 31 Jefferson St. New classes start about every six weeks and run for five weeks.

Classes are held twice a week.

You can sign up for either Mondays and Wednesdays, or Tuesdays and Thursdays.

Classes run for 45 minutes and start at either 6 pm or 7 pm.

The full five-week program (10 total classes) costs $100 per

child and $120 per adult, and must be paid in advance.

Discounts are not given if you miss a class. You can pay at the front desk at LEAP via check or with cash. Checks can be made payable to “LEAP”.

You can sign up for swim

classes by stopping by the LEAP office, filling out an application and waiver form for your child.

To make things easier, print out and fill out the form beforehand and bring it with you. You can also can call 203- 773-0770 to see what times and spaces are still available.

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atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome.

“From the founding of the company to today, we have had the ability to see the unseen,” he said.

Alexion’s new headquarters is in an area the city is moving to fill with community organizations and local businesses on and around the former Route 34 Connector “highway to nowhere,” which got filled in as part of the Downtown Crossing project..

“You can’t build a new building without the infrastructure to support it,” U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro said. She called on the federal government to devote more money to the National Institute of Health, which has not seen a significant investment since 2003. DeLauro thanked the field of bioscience for getting her through ovarian cancer; she will celebrate 30 years free of cancer March 31.

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Mayor Toni Harp said she was happy to welcome Alexion back.

“It highlights the need to invest in infrastructure in order to create jobs at all skill levels,” Harp said.

“It will enable New Haven to stay on the cutting edge of development and biotech research.”

She said Alexion will contribute to bolstering the jobs pipeline in the city, partnering with Gateway Community College and Southern Connecticut State University to avenindependent.orgcontinue building a bioscience “career ladder” for students.

After the event, Harp spoke on WNHH radio’s “Dateline New Haven” program about how Alexion’s opening represents “a future for New Haven if not for all of Connecticut” in biotech.

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She noted that in addition to researchers, managers, nurses, scientists working in labs and on drug trials, 100 College St. will spin off “Synergies” in the local economy, from support businesses like dry cleaners and sandwich shops to repair people.

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Cortnee Walton Makes WBCA Good Works Team

By Vincent R. Crawford Special to the NNPA News Wire from the Arizona Informant

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More than 100 NCAA Division I nominees competed for five spots on the prestigious 2016 Allstate Women’s Basketball Coaches Association Good Works Team. The team honors college basketball players that have dedicated themselves to bettering the lives of others through giving back to their communities. One of those award winners was University of Louisville’s Cortnee Walton, who graduated from St. Mary’s in Phoenix, Ariz.

“It’s a great honor,” said Walton, who is a 6-foot-3 redshirt junior forward for the Cardinals. “It just feels like I’m having fun.” A lot of great players were nominated and not chosen.

“We were very fortunate growing up. My family is big on giving back because we believe in a higher power. We need to give back, that’s how my parents (Kristina and Christopher) raised me, to help people.”

Walton was selected along with George Mason’s Taylor Brown, Northern Iowa’s Stephanie Davison, Utah’s Danielle Rodriguez, and Georgia Tech’s Katarina Vuckovic. The

University of Louisville’s No. 13 Cortnee Walton was selected to the 2016 Allstate Women’s Basketball Coaches Association Good Works Team. Walton is the only Cardinal to play and start in each game and second on the team in rebounding (7.7 RPG). (GoCards.com)

women will be recognized at the 2016 NCAA Women’s Final Four, in Indianapolis. Voting panels of former coaches, college basketball athletes and media chose the recipients. College and NBA/WNBA greats Grant Hill and Tamika Catchings led the panel.

“It’s cool if you do not play basketball, but it’s also very important to give back,” said Kristina. “We brought Cortnee up in church and gave her that foundation of knowing the Lord, but it’s all her. You can plant the seed, but it’s up to her to grow and she’s definitely doing that.

“This means that the things she learned here, she’s carried it on and it means a lot to us as a family to know that Cortnee is honoring us on and off the court.

We are very proud of her.”

Walton has volunteered her time to Family Scholar House (disadvantaged families); Girls

on the Run (teaching life skills); Women 4 Women (fundraising); Maryhurst (mentoring girls with behavioral disabilities); Bring Peace Home (family violence prevention); Read to Achieve (literacy importance); and Healthy Hoops Clinic for Kids (for asthmatic kids).

“We brought Cortnee up to be more community service minded and volunteerism was a requirement at St. Mary’s,” said Christopher, Cortnee’s father.

“Cortnee is a hard worker and she does the dirty work on the court and in the community. Volunteering came natural to her and she carried it onto her college career and she got awarded for it. It’s a great accomplishment and a great award.”

Academically, Walton graduated last year with a bachelor’s in communications and is pursuing a master’s in sports administration. On the court, 11thranked Louisville (22-6) is 13-1 in the ACC and Walton is the only Cardinal to play and start in each game. She is second on the team in rebounding (7.7 RPG) and fifth in scoring (6.4 PPG).

Walton’s sister, Brandee, plays for New Mexico State and her brother, Isaiah, is a starter for St. Mary’s.

Beverly Hills, CA — Bold, spectacular, unforgettable and soul stirring are just a few words used to describe the nominees’ of this year ’s 25th Annual NAACP Theatre awards. Winners of the 2015 NAACP Theatre Awards will be announced and celebrated during a star-studded Red Carpet Press Conference on Sunday March 6, 2016, 5pm at the Nate Holden Performing Arts Theatre/Ebony Repertory Theatre located at 4718 W Washington Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90016 Hosted by 4x NAACP Theatre Award winning playwright and producer Kinnik Sky, nominated thespians will enjoy an evening of lime lights and media fanfare commencing with a VIP prereception as the NAACP lauds the contributions of the most stellar theatrical performances.

Celebrity announcers include: Jason George (Grey’s Anatomy), Richard Lawson (Saints and Sinners), Obba Babatunde’ (The Bold and the Beautiful), Renee Lawless (The Haves and Haves Nots), Margaret Avery (Being

Mary Jane), Ella Joyce (Being Mary Jane), Harold Bell (Raising Whitley), Richard Gant (THE GAME).

This year’s Equity Theatre nominations include an array of phenomenal productions including “Porgy and Bess” with an outstanding nine nominations – Best Choreography, Best Lead Female and Male, Best

Supporting Female and Male, Best Director, Best Musical Director and lastly Best Costumes. Securing seven nominations including recent OBIE award winner Trip Cullman in the category of “Best Director of a Musical – Equity” along with nominations for Best Lead Male and Best Supporting Male.

“Above the Fold” ties with seven nominations of its’ own produced by The Pasadena Playhouse with “Best Lead Female nomination for multiAward winner Taraji P. Henson.

Locking in five nominations are both “Maurice Hines is Tappin Thru Life” attaining a Best Choreographer nom for Maurice Hines and “The Tallest Tree in the Forest” with Moises Kaufman up for Best Director.

In the category of Local Theatre nominations “Knock Me A Kiss” based on the story of Yolande Du Bois, the pampered and only daughter of scholar and activist W.E.B. Du Bois takes the lead with six nominations including Ashlee Olivia and Rosie Lee Hooks as Best Lead Female-Local.

“Bag Lady”, “The Magic Flute” and “Sassy Mamas” all received five nominations including a Best One-Person Show and Best Playwright to Tammi Mac, Best Director of a Musical for Mark Dornford-May and Best Producer collectively to Vanessa Paul & Alex Morris.

Rounding out the local category all with four nominations each include “The Brother’s Size” and “Low Hanging Fruit” for Best Ensemble Cast plus “Bus Stops” with a first time nomination for Jaimyon Parker in the Best Producer and Best Supporting Male category.

Associate Producer CeCelia Antoinette of the NAACP Theatre Daytime Awards says, “I’m pleased to be a part of an organization that recognizes and honors BLACK EXCELLENCE in Theatre.”

The goal of the Beverly Hills/ Hollywood NAACP’s Board of Directors is to take the starstudded NAACP Theatre Awards Gala to the next level by merging the awards show and festival into one entity. The 2015 live show was changed to an online format to give the creative/production team time to develop the platform to merge festivities inclusive of live theatre, as well as awards honoring excellence in theatre, into a four day event to be held Fall 2016.

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Mark Zuckerberg Tells Facebook Employees: “Stop Crossing Out Black Lives Matter Signs”

He continued: “There are specific issues affecting the black community in the United States, coming from a history of oppression and racism. ‘Black lives matter’ doesn’t mean other

lives don’t – it’s simply asking that the black community also achieves the justice they deserve.”

“Deeply hurtful and tiresome” “This has been a deeply hurtful

and tiresome experience for the black community and really the entire Facebook community,” Zuckerberg also said.

Although, Facebook seems to be standing up for diversity, the

company does admit that only 2 percent of it’s workforce are Black, despite their efforts to recruit and retain more diverse candidates. But many have credited Zuckerberg for speaking up about the importance of the nationwide “Black Lives Matter” campaign.

The slogan that took hold in the black community and beyond to protest incidents and a history of police brutality and racial inequality. But not all agree Naturally, however, not all agree with Zuckerberg’s comments. For example, BreitBart.com criticizes Zuckerberg for not tell his employees that “Black Lives Matter Are Pathologically Dishonest” and that “Black Lives Matter Hates Free Speech”.

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Menlo Park, CA — Mark Zuckerberg, multi-billionaire founder and CEO of Facebook, has recently issued a companywide memo chastising employees who, despite his earlier warnings, have been crossing out the phrase “Black Lives Matter” and writing “All Lives Matter” on the company’s free expression walls at their campus in Northern California.

In the memo sent to all employees, Zuckerberg says that he has never had to make rules about what can be written on the chalkboards. However, he considered these acts “malicious.”

He told employees: “This has been a deeply hurtful and tiresome experience for the black community and really the entire Facebook community, and we are now investigating the current incidents.”

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Katherine Mary Dunham: Noted for Innovative Interpretations of Ritualistic and Ethnic Dances

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Katherine Mary Dunham was an American dancer, choreographer, author, educator, and social activist. Dunham, who directed her own dance company, had one of the most successful dance careers in American and European theater of the 20th century.

Dunham had a very stern and religious upbringing. Born in Chicago, she was the daughter of Fanny June Taylor, a fairskinned divorcee of French Canadian ancestry, and Albert Dunham, a hard working tailor.

After the death of her mother, her father remarried and moved to Joliet, Illinois, where Dunham then attended dance school. At the age of nine, she staged her first dance production for a church fundraising project, which ultimately grossed thirtytwo dollars.

In high school, Dunham excelled in music and athletics, both of which merged into her love for dancing. She attended the University of Chicago and financed her education by giving dance lessons.

In 1936, she received special field training through a research project in the West Indies from Northwestern University. She

later won a Julius Rosenwald Travel Fellowship to the West Indies where she she studied the life of the Koromantee tribe for two years, a group of people brought over from the Gold Coast of Africa.

In 1938, she joined the Federal Theater Project in Chicago. Two years later, she formed an allblack company, which began touring extensively by 1943. She traveled to New York as a dance director, and appeared in “Cabin In The Sky” and “Stormy Weather.” Dunham died in 2006.

You Can’t Take Our Crowns: The Impact Of Slavery On Black Women’s Hair During the 1400s and 1500s, before European slave ships arrived to Africa, hairstyle was very important to black women. Many would spend hours, or even days, on their hair, using special combs and oils to form locks, plaits and twists. The adornment of both the head and hair was an important part of the dress, especially in West Africa, where most blacks in America have their origins.

When slaves were captured, their hair was cut off, in order to begin the process of eradicating their sense of culture and identity.

They were then given head-wraps to use protect against harsh weather and the spread of head lice. When hair grew back, there was no time to form elaborate hair styles. Originally, these headwraps were given to both sexes but later were used exclusively by women. In some places in the South, women were required by law to secure their hair in these wraps.

While the head-wraps signified poverty and inferiority to the slave owners, to the women they became a source of communal and personal identity. The style in which head-wraps were worn depended on the region, and also dif-

fered slightly for each individual.

The wearer would tie her wrap uniquely, developing a style and look that suited her. In this way, the head-wraps gave the women a sense of liberty and empowerment.

Slaves who worked indoors did not have the need for head-wraps and often braided their hair. They were also out of risk of contracting ringworm, which would stop the hair from growing and cause bald patches, that the head-wraps were used to conceal.

In the 1800s, ships stopped bringing slaves from Africa and

the value of slaves increased.

Slaves stopped working on Sundays, which gave women time to style their hair. During the week, they would continue to cover their heads with the wrap but would remove it for church. However, they were still unable to regress to the African styles as the combs they had previously used and palm oil were not available in America. Instead, women had to wash and condition their hair using butter, kerosene and bacon grease, and brushed it with the carding combs used for the sheep.

The hair of those in West Africa ranges from anywhere between kinky to loosely curled. During the years leading up to the abolition slavery, many black women wanted to straighten their hair, as “good hair” was considered to be straight. They often used dangerous chemicals, such as lye mixed with potato. The notion “good hair” was fortified by house slaves or free blacks, who frequently had straight hair due to the fact that they were at least partially white.

However, the good fortune of these people was not often due to their looks but rather to the help they received from their white relatives.

Mahala A. Dickerson: First Black Lawyer to Prosecute

“Equal Pay Cases” for Women Professors

by Jae Jones BlackThen.com “In my life, I didn’t have but two things to do. Those were to stay black and to die. I’m just not afraid to fight somebody big…Whenever there’s somebody being mistreated, if they want me, I’ll help them.” – Mahala A. Dickerson Mahala Ashley Dickerson was the first African-American woman to be admitted to the Bar associations of Alaska and Alabama. Dickerson grew up in Alabama on a plantation owned by her father. She later became close friends with Rosa Parks while attending a private school.

In 1935, Dickerson graduated from Fisk University. She later married Henry Dickerson and

had triplets. She divorced her husband, and when her sons were 6, she went to Howard University School of Law, becoming one of four women to

graduate in her class of 1936. In Indiana, she married Indianapolis attorney and later presidential candidate Frank R. Beckwith.

Dickerson was first to prosecute on of the first equal pay cases on behalf of female university professors, as these women were receiving lower salaries than their male colleagues. She was awarded the Margaret Brent Award from the American Bar Association, an honor also given to U.S. Supreme Court Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sandra Day O’Connor in 1995. Dickerson practiced law well into her nineties and was an advocate for the underprivileged and poor.

She died in 2007 at the age of 94.

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Freedom Tastes Like Mint — & $4.2M Farnam Courts housing development. One of the men, Jason Smith, died. Police weeks later obtained warrants to arrest Henry and his three friends for the murder, largely on the testimony of two of the other shooting victims.

The police said the men belonged to the Q Terrace-based Island Brothers and had shot the victims, members of the Ghetto Boys, in a gang-related dispute.

Henry said he didn’t believe that up until the time when the jury verdict came down, he didn’t believe he’d be convicted. Because, he said, he knew he didn’t do it. He said he had gotten in trouble in his youth at times (“I wasn’t a choir boy”). But he insisted he never belonged to a gang. “I from Quinnipiac projects. We called each other ‘Island.’” He said “it stumps me” how his name emerged as a suspect in the witness’s mind.

Henry said he had been at a nearby bar the night of the shooting, the old Melebus Club, then gone home by 2 a.m. “I had like six different people” who vouched for his whereabouts. He said he had no idea who shot up Smith and his crew or why.

The jury concluded otherwise.

On Dec. 14, 1999, Henry began what was supposed to be a remaining lifetime as a prisoner.

“I never thought it would be forever,” he recalled. “I was innocent. I’m a fighter.”

One of the hardest parts of serving time in jail involved missing his two boys. They were born in the year before Henry went to jail. At first they visited each month, then as little as once a year. “I wrote to them all the time,” he said.

Like other inmates insisting on their innocence, Henry and his three friends, who were locked up together, obtained lawyers and studied the law themselves.

Through a Freedom of Information Act request they obtained a transcript of a sentencing of one of the key witnesses against them, Andre Clark, in a separate crimi-

nal matter. The transcript included the information that Clark had received a break on his sentence in return for testifying against Henry and his crew. The state prosecutor did not correct Clark on the stand.

That was in 2001. It took another 12 years, including an appellate court ruling and then finally a Connecticut Supreme Court ruling, before Henry was freed. And then came a new set of challenges. Like rebuilding a life.

One change struck Henry upon his release: “Everybody had a cell phone. Everybody was always on the phone. It was weird to be able to call anywhere in the world, for free.”

This time he wasn’t downsized.

He left on his own, in January.

Why did he leave?

“I got $4.2 million,” Henry responded.

“I just smile at people another way” now.

The claims commissioner came up with the figure by calculating “$2.4 million for loss of liberty, $1.1 million for loss of earnings and future earnings capacity, $200,000 for loss of reputation, $100,000 for physical and mental injuries and $200,000 for legal fees and expenses,” according to a report in the CT Mirror.

How has Henry’s life changed so far now that the former life inmate is free and rich?

Before going to jail, Henry had done some rapping under the name Darky B. He rapped a few times in prison, recorded a few tracks once he won his freedom.

But that wasn’t paying the rent.

“I feel the same as I did without the money,” Henry said. “It hasn’t hit me yet. It might never hit me. I feel the same as I did without the money. I’m humbled.”

Like other released inmates, Henry was having a hard time finding employers willing to hire him. He landed a position packaging women’s clothes at a Branford warehouse; six months later he was laid off. He then found work clearing out foreclosed homes for a local firm, which, he said, again downsized him out of the job after six months. Next Henry put up wood framing for the new Centerplan apartment complex rising on College Street until the crew reached the top floor and no longer needed framers.

Except for the people showering him with requests for business seed money.

Meanwhile, Henry and his three friends remained in touch.

They launched a a hip-hop concert and event-staging business called 365 Entertainment. They put on some shows, started building up the business. The name came from the cumulative number of years they’d been sentenced to serve in prison.

Henry kept finding paying gigs: He became a downtown “ambassador,” paid $10.10 an hour to stroll the streets in a bright uniform and smile at passersby.

“Daily,” he said. “Everybody friends, family, people I’ve never seen before. Everybody knows” he has millions.

He’s not investing in other businesses right now, he said.

“Every idea’s not [necessarily] a good idea,” Henry reasoned.

He said he and the 365 Productions crew are working on making their business viable. Their next show is in Charlotte, Virginia.

Meanwhile, Henry purchased a home in the suburbs. (He declined to say where.) A quiet place. He hopes one of his sons will be coming to live with him there soon. (His son Darcus Jr. appeared on WNHH radio’s “One World” program recently to discuss Black History Month.)

Henry never believed that his life had ended when Connecticut sentenced to a century behind bars, he said. Now he has that life back, and it’s just beginning.

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even happier for my 86 year-old grandmother who was an activist during the Civil Rights era. “I never thought I’d see it; at least not in my lifetime”, was what my Granny said of seeing a Black man take the oath of office. But as time passed, I watched that big smile on her face become grim. Not only did she think she’d never see a Black man become president, she probably never thought she’d live to see the pure, unadulterated hatred of White America rise to levels that rivaled that of the Civil Rights era when police departments would sic trained dogs on elderly Black women during demonstrations. America had essentially relapsed.

I have family members who have struggled with the demon of drug addiction. My mother included. The addiction itself is hell. When the person hits what is called “rock bottom,” he or she may get help. If the addict gets too cocky, careless or cavalier about their environment they may “relapse.” Sometimes, the relapse is worse than the initial addiction. America’s addiction to racial discrimination based on the philosophy of White Supremacy is back with a vengeance; like

never before. Just as the addict relapses, essentially, because the disease never left, America’s relapse on race is indicative of a sickness that never left. And “44” was the catalyst.

Obama has been called the greatest gun salesman in America. Gun production has doubled under his administration and some say his presence in the White House gave the industry a $9 billion dollar boost. The hate groups that peppered the landscape of America in the 60’s resurfaced in full force. The number of “hate groups” in America increased by 500 during the Obama era. The racially charged rhetoric of hate that we heard in the 60’s is more acceptable in America now more than ever.

Mass shootings “went platinum.” And let’s not even talk about racial profiling, excessive force and state sanctioned murder by police departments nationwide. When angry White officers couldn’t get their hands on Obama, any young Black male would do.

White America took their hatred for him and his current residency in the White House out on us.

Black America suffered under the Obama administration, because redneck America

couldn’t stand to see a seed of Africa governing this nation’s affairs.

Right Wingers ballyhooed, “we have to take our country back.” They shared memes of the First Lady of the United States Michelle Obama portrayed as a chimpanzee. Hate crimes increased, Black churches were burned (just like in the 60’s) and Dylann Roof took us way back into America’s dirty past when he murdered nine innocent Black people in a church in South Carolina. The nationwide street protests against injustice that we saw in the 60’s are back in full effect.

The Black Lives Matter movement was created due to this atmosphere. Even Beyoncé put her two cents in with her new single “Formation,” a tribute to decades of protests against injustice in America. We thought that after electing the first Black president that we were a hop, skip and a jump from Heaven.

Instead, ALL HELL BROKE LOOSE. During the president’s first term, we heard commentators, pundits and other optimists use the term “Post-Racial America.”

Now you hardly hear these words uttered. It is because having a Black president with a

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“It’s been a looooooong; a long time coming, but I know, a change gon’ come.”

-Sam Cooke (A Change Gonna Come; 1964) It was 1964, in the throes of the Civil Rights movement, when Sam Cooke released his classic anthem “A Change Gonna Come.” Many don’t know that it was inspired by Cooke’s experience being turned away from a “Whites Only” hotel in Louisiana. He’d been humiliated in front of his wife despite his status as a popular entertainer. The song became pivotal to the soundtrack for the movement towards social change, racial tolerance and the dream that Dr. King so eloquently summoned from the soul of Black America. The hope was that, just as slow drops of water have the power to wither a rock over time, that the stone of White supremacy would ultimately wither away one march at a time, one sit-in at a time, one song at a time.

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was enacted the same year. The Voting Rights Act came on its heels a year later. Over the next four-plus decades a cascade of legislation, social programs, setasides and mass movements took Black America on socioeconomic roller coaster ride in this country. For every step we took forward, it seemed like we were pushed two paces backwards. Every win was followed by two or three losses.

Sam was still sangin’ while Black America was still left hangin.’ Then, it happened.

Forty-four years up from the Civil Rights Act of 1965, the 44th president of the United States of America, a Black man named Barack Hussein Obama, was sworn-in as Commander in Chief of the nation that our forefathers built with Black hands. Change had finally come.

I was happy to see it. I was

Black First family exposed America for what she really is: not a post-racial nation but a most racial nation. It exposed that America’s addiction to White Supremacist values existed under the surface all along. She was “geeking” to show her truest colors and President Obama provided her fix. As his final term comes to a close, much is being debated concerning whether or not the Obama presidency advanced the cause of Black America. I say, if Obama’s presidency did nothing else for Black America, it showed us where we still stand in this matrix called American society. If his presidency did nothing for us, it solidified that this nation still sees us as second-class citizens and that the hatred of the past still pulsates in the present. I still jam that Sam Cooke song every now and then, but even Ray Charles can see that change for the masses of our people has not come.

So as we close out this chapter of our 461st year sojourn in this nation, the question becomes “what do we do?” Now that we are clear on where we stand, how do we respond? Do we put our hope in Hillary and waste more precious years trying to get apple juice from an orange? Or do we go back to what was working for us before we were sold these legislative lies and political pipe dreams? Black Wall Street was built without a Black president. Let us unite like never before, pool our resources, practice cooperative economics, purchase land, open and support Black-owned businesses, empower Black media and function as a nation within a nation. Eight years of Obama showed us that even after 50 years under Civil Rights legislation, we still have not overcome. I appreciate the wake-up call. Now let’s get up and do something for ourselves.

Together, we can do what a Black president couldn’t.

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Housing Authority of the City of New Haven Invitation for Bids Winslow- Celentano Hydronic Upgrades The Housing Authority of the City of New Haven (HANH) is currently seeking Bids for Winslow- Celentano Hydronic Upgrades. Bids will be received until March 4, 2016 at 3:00 PM. A Pre-Bid Conference will be held at 360 Orange Street, New Haven, CT 06511 on Wednesday February 17, 2016 @ 11:00 AM. A complete copy of the requirement may be obtained from HANH’s front desk at 360 Orange Street beginning on Wednesday, February 10, 2016 @ 3:00 PM. Request for electronic copies of the request should be emailed to bids@newhavenhousing.org.

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The Glendower Group, Inc, an instrumentality of The Housing Authority City of New Haven is currently seeking Proposals for Compliance Consultant Services. A complete copy of the requirement may be obtained from Elm City’s Vendor Collaboration Portal https://newhavenhousing.cobblestonesystems.com/gateway beginning on Wednesday, March 9, 2016 @ 3:00 PM.

The Glendower Group, Inc Request for Proposals

Real Estate Broker Services The Glendower Group, Inc, an instrumentality of The Housing Authority City of New Haven is currently seeking Proposals for Real Estate Broker Services. A complete copy of the requirement may be obtained from Elm City’s Vendor Collaboration Portal https://newhavenhousing.cobblestonesystems.com/gateway beginning on Monday, March 7, 2016 @ 3:00 PM.

Seeking WBE drywall suppliers and subcontractors for New Haven housing authority project. Please email info@tecconllc.com if interested.

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Off load & load trailers, Lift 50 lbs., operate trucks and forklift. Resumes to RED Technologies, LLC, 173 Pickering St., Portland, CT 06480; Fax 860-342-1022; Email to lkelly@redtransfer.com RED Technologies, LLC is an EOE.

K-MAN GLASS CORP. Looking for an apprentice who we would sponsor for three years and assist the qualified candidate in acquiring a State of CT Glaziers License.

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