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by Darius Martin, Intern correspondent, The Inner-City News

For these three teenage gentlemen, an achievement of a lifetime was given to them when they graduated from Post University on May 12th.

Jesus Neron, Tobi Aminu, and Loneil Howard were able to graduate from high school with not only their high school diploma, but also their Associates Degree. For two years, the boys had been hard at work, taking college courses arranged by and paid for by their prinicipal, Craig Drezek. I spoke with Mr Drezek on the confidence in the program after the boys’ recent success, what his expectations were when he first started this program, a possible expansion of the program to other schools, and if they plan on establishing more college readiness programs like the Post program for the entire high school. “I think it’s been a tremendous opportunity for the students involved, given the hurdles this school has had to go through over the years,” says Drezek. “A sense of pride as well at the fact that since the start of this

Photos: Lonell Howard. Tobi Aminu (left) Jesus Neron (right)

program, we had four students successfully completing their two-year degrees along with high school.

Highville is no stranger to hurdles as the school went from being a top school that parents would kill to have

their kids in, to a school left reeling and in recovery after unfortunate events. However, when the Post program was brought about, according to Mr Drezek, there was no fear of failure. “I knew that if we failed, it

ty, then pay for an independent inspection because he doesn’t trust the city to do so itself.

“I’m tired of this case,” Avallone said In early June, the judge ordered the city to hire an independent inspection company to review lead abatement work that the city had previously signed off on as complete. That independent inspection company ultimately found 10 examples of improperly abated lead paint hazards at the apartment, and another 20 examples of dangerously high lead dust samples.

“I’m tired of the actions and inactions of the City of New Haven,” Avallone said after reading the independent inspection company’s report and discussing next steps with the attorneys.

“When I look at this report and I see the deficiencies, I’m appalled.”

The case started in April as an attempted eviction for non-payment of rent.

Nearly three months and a half-dozen hearings later, the case has completely transformed into into a referendum on the quality and timeliness of the city Health Department’s lead inspections,

lead abatement plans, and post-abatement reviews.

This has been a recurring legal problem for the city as of late. Just last week, another housing court judge offered a similar, if less sharply worded, denunciation of the quality and response time of the city’s Health Department in addressing the city’s lead paint “public health crisis.”

Avallone ordered the city to coordinate a redo of the abatement work, then bring in the same independent inspection company for a follow-up review. After that review, the parties are to reconvene in Avallone’s court likely sometime in August to discuss the subsequent abatement and inspection work.

“I don’t know whether this is an issue of communication within the city,” Avallone said, “or a lack of professionalism, a lack of training, or a bunch of lawyers arguing about things when the issue here is the child’s safety. I will not tolerate any future delays.”

“This ought to be a direct message to the people of the city of New Haven,”

would be a guide for how college will be.” “We sat down and thought about what we were lacking and what we needed to equip the students with in the college-readiness field. “The success would inspire others to make these types of decisions to feel better prepared for life after high school, and just having the advantage of not only the college workload and the experience, but the mindset you must take on.”

Now the boys weren’t able to partake in the entire college experience but Mr Drezek says that could change moving forward with the Post program. ”We’re talking with other local schools about residency plans, and giving the experience of living on campus. Given the recent successes, Drezek feels like the program can move into “Phase 2.”

“We’re looking at the second phase and the problems that we may face due to the state budget cutbacks, and how it would impact our NOMAD program.” “However, we are still reaching out to local schools to continue building the program.”

I spoke with the three graduates and

they described how the journey had impacted the both of them. “Looking back, this really is a testament to who we are as individuals and what we can accomplish when we set our minds to strive for greatness,” says Tobi Aminu. “Seeing how much goes into being a full-time college student, I definetly feel a bit more prepared for when I start my semester in the fall,” says Loneil Howard. The third and final recipient of the Associates degree, Jesus Neron, talked about the grind that the boys had to go through to get to their ultimate goal. “Lots of long nights of discussion boards and classes with deadlines, but what matters was that we had each other’s back, making sure the other one was slipping up or if they needed help with anything. Having that made getting to the graduation day so much sweeter.”

The three graduates have a bright future ahead of them as Tobi and Loneil will be attending Sacred Heart University, while Jesus will be attending Central Connecticut State University.

Another Judge Rips City On Lead

by THOMAS BREEN NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT

A second Superior Court judge ripped into the city’s handling of a child lead poisoning case, declaring that he is “appalled” at the city’s delays and deficiencies in completing an adequate abatement and inspection of the child’s apartment.

His critique comes just five days after another judge criticized the city’s Health Department for not prioritizing children’s safety in a different lead poisoning case before the court.

On Tuesday afternoon, Judge Anthony Avallone delivered the latest scathing critique of the city’s lead inspection and abatement work from his bench in the third-floor housing court at the New Haven Superior Court at 121 Elm St. His statement came after a brief check in with defense, plaintiff, and city lawyers about a court case involving the landlord and the groundfloor tenants of the two-family home at 75 Sherman Ave. He ordered the city to coordinate another lead abatement of the proper-

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THOMAS BREEN PHOTO Legal aid intern Alden Pinkham and Attorney Amy Marx, Attorney Ori Spiegel, City’s Counsel Roderick Williams in court Tuesday.

he continued. “Get this done. Get it done right. Get it inspected by an independent agency, because I don’t

trust the inspection of the Health Department of the city.”

Food Stamps Fight Looms THE INNER-CITY NEWS - July 11, 2018 - July 17, 2018

by CARLY WANNA NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT

U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy encountered several New Haveners on food stamps during his “Walk Across Connecticut.” One day after finishing the walk, he promised to fight an effort to scale food stamps back.

Murphy Monday morning carried his conversations from the prior weekend to the CitySeed food policy organization on Grand Ave, where he met with approximately 30 local activists to discuss the SNAP program and his vow to urge the House to pass the Senate’s version of the Agricultural Improvement Act of 2018, also known as the Farm Bill a proposal which mostly maintains current nutritional government programs through the next five years.

The House and the Senate have both passed different versions of the bill, and now have to reconcile them.

“I’m not jumping for joy over the Senate bill but given where we are today, I will take it. And I voted for it. The House bill is a different story,” said Murphy.

The Senate bill which passed on June 28 in an 86-11 vote would maintain the level of standing programs like Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, also known as SNAP or food stamps. The Senate version would encourage food stores to incentivize SNAP households to purchase more healthful foods and allow farmers to certify once for farmers’ markets instead of signing up individually among other added provisions.

The House passed its own version of the Farm Bill on June 21 by a slimmer two-vote margin. According to some estimates, the House’s version would result in two million people losing eligibility for food stamps partially through nationwide requirements that force individuals to recertify every 30 days that they are working. Exceptions include full disablement and caring for a child under six years of age. Individuals out of work for 90 days or more would lose eligibility for SNAP for the next year.

“It’s punitive. The people who voted for this bill in the House hate poor people so much that they decided to make you ineligible for food stamps for one to three years if you are out of work for a short period of time,” said Murphy.

Murphy said many residents require soup kitchens and SNAP to survive.

He encountered one such New Havener, Tommy O’Neill, on the New Haven Green in the final stretch of his 70 mile “Walk Across Connecticut,” which he completed on Sunday.

After briefing the room at CitySeed, the senator turned the floor to the constituents sitting before him, many of who represent various activist groups around the area.

Witnesses to Hunger a advocacy group focusing on the nutritional difficulties mothers of limited means face had 13 attendees at Monday’s roundtable talk, including Melissa Driffin, a mother, college graduate and recovering substance abuser. She shifted the conversation to direct discussion of employment, sharing her difficulties in job attainment due to her record. She said she has a “red tape” barring her from hire.

Merryl Eaton of Mothers for Justice, an advocacy group focused on welfare reform, pointed to the need for healthier lifestyles. She called for more research exploring the connection between poor health and higher healthcare and Medicaid costs.

“If we talk about the sheer math of what happens when people are hungry, when they’re eating poor quality food, how healthcare costs go up,” said Eaton.

Mark Griffin of Focus Act Connect Everyday lives in the Dwight neighborhood. He said he regularly encounters mothers who cannot afford to meet nutrition needs of their family, not to mention sustain a healthy diet.

He said that a decrease in funding for programs like SNAP would be met with increased food theft in attempts to provide for families.

“With this problem, it’s going to turn into a bigger problem,” said Griffin.

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3 More Firefighters Promoted

by ALLISON PARK NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT

Kenyatta Harris knows carbon monoxide is a silent killer, so he risked his life to save seven people from a house in a CO emergency.

As a captain in the New Haven Fire Department Harris saved lives on a daily basis. As of Friday, he has even more responsibility.

He was one of three firefighters were promoted in a morning ceremony at the New Haven Fire Training Division. Harris was promoted to battalion chief, L. Stanley Slubowski to captain, and Firefighter James Carew to lieutenant in a dominoeffect promotion chain after former Battalion Chief James Kottage’s recent retirement.

The promotions followed a larger ceremony on Tuesday, at which the department promoted 24 firefighters.

Fire Chief John Alston said he’s “very excited” about the “first big wave of promotions” in over 20 years. With around 40 new recruits, Alston looks forward to a “different mixture” of members, not only in terms of race and gender but also a group that’s “multi-generational.”

Alston said he’s looking forward to a department with a “greater sense of stability” and advised the newly promoted firefighters to “study and sacrifice.”

As a battalion chief, Harris will oversee 36 people on his team and direct firefighters in action, analyzing the fire ground, reading the building and deciding where to post the crew.

The men were seated on a stage to take their sworn oaths Friday morning in a room full of proud family members, firefighter recruits, and current NHFD members.

Alston reminded the men that with the new positions comes “greater responsibility.” He emphasized the importance of “aptitude and attention to detail” while maintaining “professionalism at all times.”

“I feel great you know. It’s unbelievable. It’s been a long time coming,” said a beaming Harris. He entered the fire academy in December 1995, was promoted to lieutenant in 1999 prior, then served five years as a captain.

Now, as Battalion Chief, Harris said he hopes to “grow the department” in the current “transition wave” into a “21st-century firefighter department.”

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Harris, Slubowski, and Carew.

Newly minted Captain Stanley Slubowski said he was “overwhelmed and happy” about the promotion. Slubowski said hopes to “bring back” a focus and “a family feeling” in the fire department.

“It’s not just a workplace, but a working family, which is what it’s

supposed to be,” he said. Slubowski has been serving at the NHFD for 11 years, staring as a Squad One firefighter based at the Whitney Avenue firehouse prior to his promotion to Squad Two lieutenant at Ellsworth Avenue.

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Books, Then Sundaes THE INNER-CITY NEWS - July 11, 2018 - July 17, 2018

by ALLAN APPEL

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Spirite Watson led the way helping to read an inspirational book about a powerful hat and what it means to be a foreigner.

Jayden Bolden thought the sundaes were particularly good with chocolate sauce and a ton of sprinkles.

And Valentine Moore was so comfortable with the reading and the event, he fell fast asleep on Marge Wiener’s leg for 15 minutes.

That was the scene in Newhallville as a summer series called “Books and Sundaes on Mondays” at the Harris & Tucker School.

It was one of the activities organized by the school’s director Kim Harris as part of the One City Initiative, a collaboration of the city’s 12 different community management teams to stage family-friendly activities, one per day in each neighborhood for 60 days of the summer.

Harris, One City Initiative’s founder, said that an new edition of her books-and-ice cream event will take place every Monday from 3 to 5 p.m.. It is one of about 800—and growing—events being listed on the One City site.

On the website, you can follow the links to print out a citywide “passport”

and then take that sheet to events around town. Get the passport stamped, to qualify for cards and other rewards when One City concludes with ceremonies and big fun on the Green on Aug. 26.

A the reading event Monday, Jayden Bolden was first in line to get the vanilla ice cream, the foundation of his sundae, after he and his group of eight kids finished reading Tomi Ungerer’s neologism-filled euphonious tale, set in 19th Century Italy, called The Hat. That book was brought to the group and read in the school’s cool, downstairs basement play room by Marge Wiener, an operating room nurse, the chair of the Westville/West Hills Management Team, and one of Harris’s co-movers and shakers in the One City management teamled movement.

Harris came downstairs after supervising the second reading group of toddlers out back in her school’s yard. She noticed that Valentine Moore had literally fallen asleep on Wiener’s leg, having tucked his arms inside his T-shirt, perhaps against the brisk air conditioning.

“One of the wonderful things about these collaborations,” said Harris, “is that my kids get a chance to touch people they wouldn’t normally.”

The story of Benito Badoglio, the book’s protagonist, is not one which her kids might have chosen themselves, she said. Nor would they normally have come in contact with a white operating room nurse, or the local politicians and other notables whom Harris has lined up to read to her kids at future Books and Sundaes on Mondays.

Before Valentine fell asleep, Wiener and Spirite Watson, her co-reader, talked about the meaning of “foreigner,” a word used in the story. Jayden Bolden wanted to know, and Wiener guided the group in a discussion of the answer.

Jayden said a foreigner is someone who wants to come to America.

“Why do people want to come to America?” Wiener asked.

“Because they want to see the good things we have,” Spirite Watson replied.

And so the discussion went, until it was sundae time upstairs.

Harris said she plans to take her summer camp kids to check out the Mitchell Branch Library’s art club in Westville.

The New Haven Free Public Library’s Readmobile will begin to make its appearance at next week’s Books and Sundaes on Mondays and for all the Mondays throughout the summer, Harris said.

ALLAN APPEL PHOTO Readers Marge Wiener and Spirite Watson, and Valentine Moore

participating in his own way.

Teacher Tikara George (foreground) and high school intern Pinky Jones serve up the ice cream.

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An Open Letter from America’s Children

By Ron Harris, NNPA Newswire Guest Columnist

Dear U.S. Media, Democrats, Republicans, Independents and to the concerned Americans who poured out into the streets to protest Donald Trump’s cruel and faulty immigration policies, What about us?

We understand and applaud your response to this administration’s malevolent separation of immigrant families from their children—policies and practices so un-American and shocking that they have come to dominate the national conversation. Your immediate, visceral response to evil spurred you into action.

But there is another evil, a pervasive, chronic and unrelenting wickedness that we, your children, live with every day. We are being shot down on the nation’s streets, locked away in juvenile facilities, poisoned by dangerous drinking water, threatened and harassed by neighborhood gangs, left homeless, either alone from abuse or with parents that cannot afford to put a roof over our heads. We live in neighborhoods bereft of adequate food sources and with fathers and mothers so wrought with financial and psychological instability they can’t provide our needs.

And because our nation has lived with this reality so long, it has become almost accepted. It has become quietly and unconsciously perceived as part of the norm, part of the landscape, like the air we breathe, until little by little it becomes so caustic that it kills us or chokes us into action. Unfortunately for us, your children, you haven’t reached that point.

There are 408,000 of us, American children, who also have been separated from our families and placed in the care of others, like the 2,000 immigrant children who you took to the streets to protect. Many of us languish in foster care with little hope of ever being united with our parents or extended families. As we watched the huge crowds that stretched across 700 U.S. cities Saturday. We saw the signs proudly held high that read, “Family Separations Are Cruel.” And we thought, “Yes, they are.” What about us? Where is our march? Where is our media coverage?

Half of us currently in foster will be homeless within six months after growing too old for the system. We are unprepared to live on our own. We

have limited education and no social support. About a quarter of the rest will be homeless within two to four years of leaving the system. Some of us will become part of the 20,000 U.S. children annually forced into prostitution.

Another two million of us this year will separated from our families and placed behind bars and in juvenile custody. Many of us, like Clarice, one of twin 14-year-old sisters in Montgomery County, Md., can’t go home because there is no suitable home to go to. Her parents are homeless, and authorities can’t release her to an unstable home. Other parents are dysfunctional or can’t provide the guidance we need. So, we go behind bars because there are not enough treatment facilities for us.

We want a march, too, one for better schools for all, because you recognize how the hopelessness created by faulty education diminishes lives and leads to incarceration – that 32 percent of white males in juvenile custody dropped out of school, and that nearly half of African-American and Hispanic male youth behind bars also quit.

Media reported how families from El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Mexico are fleeing to the U.S. to escape gangs in their countries. Many of us live in gang-infested neighborhoods, too. In cities like St. Louis, Baltimore, New Orleans, Detroit, Cleveland, Las Vegas, Kansas City, Mo., Memphis, Newark and Chicago, the 10 U.S. cities with the highest murder rate, we have long understood their terror. We understand their fear.

In Chicago, a city rife with street gangs and where at least 16 children have been murdered in the first six months of this year, more than 50,000 people demonstrated for the rights of

immigrants fleeing gangs in countries few of them have ever visited.

Ironically, they never marched for the children slain this year in a city they traverse every day: Maysia Woodard, 12 mos.; Damarcus Wilson, 16; Deshawn James, 17; Rhomel Wellington, 17; Mateo Nathan Aguayo, 2; Joseph Smith, 16; Jose Agular, 14; Jayton Jones, 17; Erin Carey, 17; She’Vaughn O’Flynn, 12; Jechon Anderson, 11; China Lyons-Upshaw, 17; David Thomas 16; Parris Purdis, 17; Kyle McGowan, 17, and Jazmyn Jester, 15, who was among four people murdered and 13 others shot over 17 hours on a Tuesday and a Wednesday in May. Where do families like theirs emigrate to escape the violence?

Many of us live in poverty, one of every four children in Arizona, Georgia, California, Kentucky, Texas, Nevada, New Mexico and New York, one in three in the nation’s capital. At least 2.5 million of us will spend some period of life this year homeless; maybe a month, maybe six months or maybe the whole year. Most of us will spend at least one day every month without food.

Look at us. Pivot your cameras and microphones to us, as well. We are your children, and there is real evil that plagues us too.

What about us?

Ron Harris is a journalist, adjunct professor at Howard University and co-author with Matthew Horace of the new book “The Black and The Blue, A Cop Reveals Crimes, Racism and Injustice in America’s Law Enforcement.”

This article was originally published at BlackPressUSA.com.

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New Haven, CT. - Sisters of Today and Tomorrow hosted its 10th Annual National #Leadership Conference last week at Yale AfAm Culture Center in New Haven, CT. The program consisted of workshops on self-esteem building with Maya Welfare, health & wellness with Body Workers LLC, College planning with Dr. Christina Cousin of Quinnipiac University and vision board development with Deborah B. Wright, as well as a powerful Sisters Circle led by three outstanding young women: Ashley Warner bka DJ BOB, Maya Welfare and Jonèt Nichelle.

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A Call to End Gang Violence

by ALLISON PARK NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT

“Enough is enough! Stop the violence!”

That cry arose in Beaver Hills Tuesday evening, On Tuesday evening, as over 50 people gathered on the corner of Carmel and Percival Streets to hold a vigil for the past week’s wave of gun violence across town. The event drew pastors, preachers, police, and local neighbors.

The feeling of unity and fellowship was immediate from the beginning of the event, which started in hand-held prayer. The evening continued with speakers from throughout the community sharing their sentiments and pleas for action from members of the community. The event took place at the scene of one of two Tuesday shootings. Four shootings were reported in three days in New Haven; Mayor Toni Harp attributed the spike to a “turf war” between gang members recently released from prison.

“We need to stand together,” Beaver Hills Alder Jill Marks, an organizer of Tuesday’s vigil, told the crowd. When she heard about the Carmel Street shooting, she said, “My heart just dropped. [We should] be able to feel free amongst neighbors.”

“We have to stand up as one community,” echoed Edgewood Alder Evette Hamilton. Citing the participating of young people in gang violence, she called on the community to “steer our children in a positive direction.”

“This is our neighborhood and I’m not giving it up to gun violence,” she proclaimed, with shouts of agreement rippling through the crowded street corner.

“There’s gloom … a cloud hanging over our city,” said Pastor Kelcy Steele of Zion Church. He said that the “church should be outside four walls.” He also offered some practical solutions to the issue amongst young people in the community who are involved with gun violence.

“We need to do more than pray on our knees,” he said. “We must pray and we must act upon it.” He suggested that people “open up camps” for children in the streets, “give [teenagers] jobs” so that they’re not in the streets, and simply talk and “open up ourselves to our young people.”

“What are you going to do?” challenged Board of Alders President Tyisha Walker-Myers, who represents West River. She said she was “reluctant to come here to speak” at first be-

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Alders Jill Marks (with microphone) and Evette Hamilton (at left).

Beaver Hills Alder Richard Furlow.

Community organizer Rev. Scott Marks.

cause she’s “tired of marching”, “losing people in the streets,” vigils, and the “same old rhetoric.” But she stood by her devotion to fight for her community and said that people should ask teenagers “what they need.”

Clipboards were passed through the

crowd with signatures of people who vowed to stop the violence and believed “enough is enough.” The evening ended with a group prayer in a circle. Police officers joined their hands with the rest of the crowd.

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CT Immigrant Community Turns Out To Support Two Young Children Cruelly Separately By Trump Administration “Connecticut Must Fight To Dismantle the Systems that allows our Government to Kidnap Children from their parents”

Bridgeport, CT - Today in Bridgeport, two asylum-seeking children, forcibly taken from their parents in Texas as a result of Trump’s cruel “zero tolerance policy” at the border and shipped 2,000 miles to Connecticut by immigration officials. Connecticut Legal Services and the Yale Worker and Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic are representing the two children and have filed an injunction with the Federal Government, asking the administration to reunite the kids with their asylum seeking parents.

Vanessa Suarez, Unidad Latina en Accion, “We demand that these children be reunited with their parents immediately. It is unjust to force these kids to go through this process without their parents. They came to the United States with their parents seeking political asylum and it is their right to go before a judge together. These children know nothing of the inhumane and cruel injustice system that we have.

They know nothing of borders and immigration policies. We will not let them go through this alone. There is an entire community here to support and defend them. We are all watching what the courts do. We fight for these 2 children and for their parents who are more than 1,800 miles away detained in Texas. The judge may have denied their parents from being physically present with their kids in court today,

but we will fight until they are reunited and safe. This is the time when families need each other the most” Sonia Hernandez, Bridgeport Parent Leader from Make The Road CT, “My family is one of the many families living under the fear caused by ICE. There are many people who are in the same situation as me, but out of fear they do not say it. That is why today I want you to join me in raising your

voice against the hatred and racism of the president and this inhumane administration.”

Connecticut Immigrant Rights Alliance (CIRA) is led by immigrant groups directly impacted by deportations including Connecticut Students for a Dream, Connecticut Bail Fund, Hartford Deportation Defense, Make the Road CT, Unidad Latina en Accion (ULA), and Windham Immigrant

violence, he said.“I’ve been surrounded by trauma my whole life.”

In 2010, Howard decided to join the military to learn “discipline.” But from there, the trauma got even worse.

In 2012, he was deployed to Afghanistan, where he was surrounded by ubiquitous violence and constant deaths. But all he could think about was his people back in New Haven.

“When someone dies in New Haven, we all feel it,” said Howard. When he arrived back in New Haven after he served in the army, Howard said, he learned the “power of positivity and life coaching.”

From there, his entire life took a turn for the better.

He now proudly calls himself a “veteran mentor, youth mentor, everybody’s mentor.” Howard said he teaches young people about the importance of a positive mindset, physical health, “being connected with life,” and most importantly, values that help students discover their “passion and purpose.”

Alexis Ward also fearlessly stepped up at the event Thursday night to tell her story. Ward, a certified life coach based in Bridgeport, also had an adverse coming-

of-age experience, leading her to work in youth development for over 10 years.

When prompted about her story with trauma she was quick to say, “Well I’m black, so it started first before I was born, systematically.” With a grandmother addicted to hard drugs, a mother involved in abusive relationships, and trusted male family members who molested her, Ward realized her need to fend for herself “at a very very young age.”

“I didn’t want to see that for myself or my future,” she said, so she delved into reading and research to figure out how she can help herself and her community. She “transformed the energy that was created from pain into passion and purpose,” leading her to receive a degree in sociology and a certificate in life coaching. She said that although “all of us” have pain, “we can use it to be productive” so we can “thrive despite the trauma.”

“Trauma for me is happening all the time, but the process of healing that trauma is also happening at the same time,” she said.

“All of us have what we need inside of us to heal.” She compared the process to going to the gym: Mental wellness comes from “consistent work” in order to build up

Rights Coalition (WIRC). CIRA includes civil rights, faith, labor, and other organizations including Planned Parenthood Votes!, ACLU of CT, Action Together CT, Women’s March CT, Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR-CT), Connecticut Shoreline Indivisible, Fairfield County Indivisible, and more.

Along with the national #DefundHate coalition, we call on our mem-

bers of Congress to say no and vote against wasting taxpayer dollars on an abusive and deadly immigration enforcement system. We want our tax dollars used to strengthen our families and communities by investing in education, housing, nutrition and health care programs that provide opportunity and increase well-being.

They Rose From Trauma To Help Others Heal

by ALLISON PARK

NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT

“Where do I start?” Yahkeem Howard said with a forced smile, when asked about his life story. Then he spoke about growing up in and out of an abusive foster care experience with no mother, brothers in jail, and no paternal presence in his life, then joining the streets.

Howard, who’s 27, was among dozens of people who shared personal stories at a PTSD Awareness Month discussion at City Hall about cultural trauma in the black community. The event, which drew around 60 people, was sponsored in part by CannaHealth and Minorities for Medical Marijuana.

Howard said that in foster care he was “beat” and “touched inappropriately” as he to navigate his way through a rocky adolescence. By middle school, Howard saw the streets as his best option. He said he joined the “bad guys so they [could] protect me.”

Howard joined gangs and adopted them as his second family. But growing up in New Haven, where in-gang violence was deadly, Howard was forced to be in a position where he was still losing loved ones. “I lost over 100 friends in New Haven” to gang

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Meeting attendees share personal stories with cultural trauma while growing up in New Haven.

“spiritual stamina”.

“Be patient with the process,” she advised.

Kyisha Velazquez, an integrative therapist and director of clinical services and community programs at Integrated Wellness Group, also talked about turning her own traumatize experiences into constructive hep for others. At the end of the discussion, Velazquez offered a solution to the

group: “Be honest with yourself and reflect: Where are you?”

The evening was a nearly two and a half hour emotional rollercoaster with the group riding on each other’s highs, but at times feeling the pain woven in their stories. It ended with a collective sense of fearlessness from hearing each other’s shared stories and experiences, and a determination to transform their life for the better.

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Debate Challenge Issued in Race for Treasurer

HT Barbers Snag Narrow Win

by CARLY WANNA

NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT

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Dita Bhargava

Shawn Wooden

by Christine Stuart HARTFORD, CT — It’s not easy being on the underticket. So candidates are doing what they can to get some attention.

In the race for state treasurer one candidate is calling on her Democratic primary opponent to debate.

Dita Bhargava of Greenwich wrote a letter to Shawn Wooden of Hartford essentially challenging him to an actual debate.

The two have criss-crossed the state and have been at forums together, but have not formally debated.

“After weeks of trying to get you to engage, I have to say that I’m really puzzled by why you won’t debate me,” Bhargava wrote in a public letter to Wooden.

The two are expected to meet for a candidate forum in Hartford on July 25.

“Let’s be clear: the candidate forum scheduled in Hartford at the end of July is not a debate,” Bhargava said.

“We’ve done dozens of these forums to date and so far no one - excluding you - has confused them with a debate.”

Wooden said that “Every day, I talk with voters about how I can put my pension fund investment experience to work for working families. This race is not about me or any other candidate

- it’s about the people of this state.

That’s why I welcome opportunities to meet and engage with voters and look forward to participating at the Hartfords Votes event on July 25.”

Bhargava didn’t hold back.

“What does it say about your campaign and how you would run the Treasurer’s office when you won’t leave your hometown and have a discussion with actual voters? What are you so afraid of?”

Bhargava, the former vice chairwoman of the Connecticut Democratic Party, is a first time candidate for statewide office. Bhargava, who has 20 years of experience in investment management — one of the primary functions of the treasurer’s office—had been running for governor before State Treasurer Denise Nappier announced she wouldn’t seek re-election.

Wooden, an attorney with Day Pitney who focuses on investment and securities law, is the former Hartford city council president. He also got into the race after Nappier announced.

Wooden received the Democratic Party’s endorsement at the convention in May. He also received the Working Families Party endorsement Tuesday, but didn’t pick up an endorsement from the AFL-CIO, which declined to offer any endorsement in the race after interviewing both candidates.

Jean Stanley’s smooth layup put the HT Barberz up 43-42 in a see-saw battled against Who’s Next in the 90-plus degree Sunday in Lincoln Bassett Park. Then Who’s Next raced down the court for one last chance at victory.

It was opening day of a six-week annual basketball tournament hosted by the Newhallville Neighborhood Corporation a nonprofit corporation dedicated to aiding the community through programs like the tournament. Community members field 10 five-person teams to take the court each Sundays.

“They come from other high schools and stuff. Legends, supposedly,” quipped Anthony Calder of HT Barberz.

The tournament began as a small program in 2000 led by Gary Gates –– president of Newhallville Neighborhood Corporation.

According to Gates, each week pulls about 100 players, with the last week attracting even higher numbers of community members.

The Sunday games attracts people on two different levels –– through the basketball games of primarily young men (although all are welcome to participate) and the provision of free hot dogs and hamburgers to passersby.

“Disenfranchised communities” like Newhallville too often lack these types of events, Gates said. “It gives people an opportunity just to have a great time and enjoy the day. Nothing other than having great moments in life.”

The HT Barberz-Who’s Next match-up showed how competitive the games get.

While Who’s Next put the first points of the game on the scoreboard , the HT Barberz enjoyed a comfortable lead for most of the first half, entering into the second half up 25-21. Who’s Next returned to the court hungry, setting an ambitious pace with an opening three pointer from Davon Warner, the team’s leading scorer with eventually 17 points. Soon after, Warner racked off another three pointer to briefly pull ahead of their opponents.

Just as the HT Barberz’ momentum seemed to be slipping, Calder provided an energizing dunk. It didn’t count for the score; he had travelled. Still, with his team rallying and the crowd cheering, the HT Barberz had regained its footing eight minutes into the second half, and pulled ahead once more.

Who’s Next wasn’t folding. Following a timeout, Deshawn Murphy of Who’s Next provided a dunk that again closed the gap against the HT Barberz, bringing the score to 37-37 with less than five minutes remaining in the game. Who’s Next then claimed a 40-39 lead with two minutes remaining.

With another dunk Keith “DC” Cothran gave the HT Barberz the lead that would stick with their team for the final minutes of the game. Stanley’s final lay-up brought the team to 43. Who’s Next fought for two more points on the scoreboard, lagging by one point.

Who’sNext regrouped during a final timeout, but fouls called against the team in the

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CARLY WANNA PHOTO Jean Stanley prepares to shoot

Burgers await the tourney’s participants. last moments of the game crystallized the HT Barberz slender triumph in the sweltering heat.

Many players Sunday veterans of the tournament. Tyquise Burney the highest scorer for the winning team, putting up 14 points grew up near Lincoln-Basset Park and has participated in the tournament in past years.

He once dreams of the pros; he said he enjoys the ability to play recreationally in his neighborhood.

“The kind of player I am, I like being competitive. I like having fun, too. Basketball’s fun to me, but being competitive – it

drives me,” said Burney, who now attends Central Connecticut State University.

Individual coaches from around the community craft their dream teams by reaching out to players they know through their play in various high school and college leagues.

In the end, the result is a free tournament driven by teams constituting anywhere from numbers nearing those of Who’s Next –– which flaunted more than 15 players to the modest five playing for HT Barberz.

“We had five,” Calder noted, “but we still took the” game.

Cops Flee PD

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by PAUL BASS

NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT

Two centuries of experience vanished form the police department as 10 veteran cops retired in June, joining an exodus of both younger and older cops.

Thirty-four cops have either retired or resigned so far in 2018, compared to 31 in all of 2017, according to the department.

That leaves the department with 389 cops and 106 vacancies out of 495 budgeted positions, according to Police Chief Anthony Campbell.

The exodus has two main causes: • Other departments have been poaching young cops by offering as much as tens of thousands of dollars more per year and better benefits to work in lower-crime communities.

So far in 2018, six cops Ross Von Nostrand, Jinette Marte-Vasquez, Anthony Tarantino, Keron Bryce, Tyler Zajac, Jazmin Delgado have left for

departments ranging from Hamden, New York, Newington, and Meriden, and (in Von Nostrand’s case) the federal Drug Enforcement Agency.

• Some cops with more than 20 years of service especially if they support families felt they couldn’t afford not to retire. That’s because they may end up paying tens of thousands of dollars more for health insurance after they retire, unless they retire now. The cops have been working without a contract for two years now.

Negotiations have failed to produce a new contract; last week the police union voted 291-4 to reject the city’s last best offer. So for the first time since 1978, the police contract will go to arbitration. And most observers predict that the city will succeed in eliminating a current $525 cap on monthly health premiums for retirees.

And, Police Chief Anthony Camp-

bell predicts, the exodus may have only just begun.

Retirement Rush In June alone, Capt. Patricia Helliger, Lt. Elisa Tuozzoli, Lt. Darci Siclari, Sgts. Albert McFadden, Jr. and Eric Scott, Detectives Von Norstrand and Jeffrey Goodwin, and Officers David Rivera, Elvin Rivera, John Palmer, Leslee Witcher, and Steve Silk all put in for retirement. Many specifically identifiedthat the contract uncertainty as the reason.

Another 31 cops are eligible to retire. On Dec. 7, 37 more will become eligible.

Based on conversations with Campbell, the police chief anticipates another wave of retirements. Arbitration may take six months to two years, based on previous history; if it happens more quickly, he expects cops to rush to hand in papers before the health care change takes effect.

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MARKESHIA RICKS PHOTO Class Of March 2015 at graduation: 10 have already left

the force.

“People are applying for jobs right now. I know they are. They’re getting their resumes done. They don’t like this uncertainty,” Campbell said Monday.

Mayor Toni Harp and other officials

have said the city is in a squeeze: It needs to offer cops better pay and benefits to keep them. But the city has entered a financial crisis, with limited money available for raises or Con’t on page 14

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Cops Flee PD benefits improvements. Some, like retired Assistant Police Chief John Velleca, have suggested slashing the size of the force, arguing that the city doesn’t need expensive walking beats to keep crime down. Harp responded on her “Mayor Monday” program on WNHH FM that walking beat-focused community policing has kept down the crime rate, and the city can’t afford to sacrifice that.

“Crime is down; that is a great thing.

Part of the reason crime is down is we had 439 officers at our peak over the past couple of years. Walking beats.

Project Longevity interaction. With a reduced police force, some of it is going to suffer,” Chief Campbell agreed. “This city is accustomed to a certain style of policing. They’re accustomed to high visibility.”

Police union President Craig Miller said cops are feeling dispirited by the lack of a contract and stagnated wages while they work hard to cover staffing shortages.

“We’re working double shifts. I talked to one guy last night he worked double shifts three nights in a row.

We’re running on fumes,” Miller said.

Miller said the the city’s last best contract offer shortchanged the cops, especially in light of raises for other city employees : “I felt betrayed. I felt insulted when the other unions received higher percentage increases than us and then they turned around and gave raises to executive management and confidential employees after they told us they didn’t have the money.” He said that had agreed not to “litigate” the contract in the press, so he didn’t want to divulge the specifics of the city’s offer beyond saying it contained lower raises than those given the other units and the top execs.

Meanwhile, suburban departments are aggressively luring away cops from New Haven as early as two or three years after they graduate from the academy.

Consider the class that graduated from the academy in March of 2015.

It had 35 original members. Ten already left for other departments by the end of 2017, according to the city’s human resources office. The list includes some early standout officers, like “Cop of the Week” Tiffany Ortiz, a New Haven native. Ortiz

went to work in Norwalk in 2017.

New Haven minted another 59 new officers in 2016. Eight of them have already left the department, according to the human resources office’s records.

Cops who leave after less than three years on the job must reimburse the city $4,000 toward the cost of their training — which in reality costs the city more like $60,000. They’re often happy to give considering how much more money they’ll be making elsewhere, and in fact their new departments often cover the cost as a sweetener.

New Haven cops start at $44,400 a year. Officer salaries top out at $68,287. Hamden starts cops at $76,000. They earn $83,000 after four years. Cops there also get better medical and retirement benefits than New Haven cops do.

How can New Haven compete?

Campbell said he stresses to potential applicants that New Haven offers a more challenging and interesting career to cops interested in tackling homicide and sexual assault investigations, serving on SWAT teams, cooperating with feds on big cases.

Campbell said he hopes to replenish some of the empty ranks with two upcoming police academy classes, with a total of 72 approved recruits. Campbell delayed the first class, originally scheduled to start last week, to launch an internal affairs investigation following the revelation that two officers had filed false background check reports. Campbell said Monday that he anticipates being able to start that class by the end of July now that the internal review is almost done.

But ultimately, Campbell argued, “the city has to make a decision: Do you raise more taxes to ensure that you have an attractive salary for your officers and benefits for your officers?

“Many people get into this for public serice. At the same time they have families and student loans and debts to pay. In New Haven you’re doing hard-core police work. If you can go somewhere else and get $20,000 and more to do work that isn’t as risky or as challenging, that’s a huge incentive. You’ve got a family and kids looking to spend time with you and go to college and have bills” to pay.

Bill Withers At 80:

“We All Need Somebody To Lean On”

by Carter Higgins, BDO Contributor

Award-winning Bill Withers created a number of hits that we still hear now, either as the original hits or as samples for some of today’s greatest hip-hop songs. Singles like “Lovely Day”, “Grandma’s Hands”, “Use Me” and “Ain’t No Sunshine” all came from the mind of Bill. But many didn’t know that the artist went through a tough time and that’s what inspired one of his biggest hits.

“Men have problems admitting to losing things,” he said. “I think women are much better at that. . . . So, once in my life, I wanted to forgo my own male ego, admit my own depression and to losing something, so I came up with… ‘Ain’t no sunshine when she’s gone / It’s not warm when she’s away / Ain’t no sunshine when she’s gone / And she’s always gone too long, any time she goes away.’”

“Ain’t No Sunshine” gave Withers his first gold record, earned him a Grammy, and, with later hits such as “Lean on Me” and “Use Me,” forms the cornerstone of a small but indispensable section of the American songbook.

A new documentary about Withers, “Still Bill,” is an no-nonsense, confident attempt to look inside the personality of a man who wrote so well and then walked away from it all in 1985, adding only a handful of songs to his legacy since then.

Actually, the bravery of Withers to admit that he needed help with others is what allowed him to write “Lean on Me,” maybe the best-known song to friendship and family, released in 1972.

If you remember, some of the lyrics go like this: Sometimes in our lives we all have pain We all have sorrow But if we are wise We know that there’s always tomorrow Lean on me, when you’re not strong And I’ll be your friend I’ll help you carry on For it won’t be long ‘Til I’m gonna need Somebody to lean on…

At one point in his documentary, Withers says he would like “for my desperation to get louder.”

The sixth of six children, William Harrison Withers, Jr., was born on July 4, 1938, in Slab Fork, West Virginia.

The town’s only viable industry was

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coal mining, and Bill, Jr., was the only man in his family who did not end up working in the mines. When he was three years old, his parents divorced, and Withers eventually moved eleven miles east, to Beckley, where he was raised primarily by his mother’s family; he was an asthmatic and a stutterer.

Eager to leave West Virginia, he joined the Navy when he was seventeen, and spent nine years in the service. While stationed in Guam, he took to singing in local bars, favoring material by artists like… … Johnny Mathis. After settling in Los Angeles, in 1967, and landing a job installing toilets on airplanes, Withers met the trombonist and pianist Ray Jackson, who helped him make the demo that got him signed to the independent Sussex label.

Withers says that he is an untrained musician, and his songs bear him out, not because they lack sophistication but because they ignore tendencies that deserve to be ignored more often.

“Ain’t No Sunshine” is a two-minute song with only three verses, a bridge that repeats two words twenty-six times—“I know”—and no chorus to speak of. Withers likes to form guitar chords that he can simply move up and down the neck without alter-

ing the position of his fingers. This simple approach leaves room for his baritone voice to map out subtle, articulate melodies. As he put it, “it’s 1970, 1971 or something, you know, I’m this black guy coming out sitting on a chair with an acoustic guitar.”

Withers’s gift lies in the immediacy of his scenarios and in how few words he needed to turn around a thought: his common explanation for how he reached conclusions as a writer is “I was feeling what I said.” His willingness to express his most awkward emotions was matched by an intolerance for unsubstantiated shows of emotion. As he told Ellis Haizlip, the host of the television show “Soul!,” in 1971, “I’m sick and tired of somebody saying ‘I love you’ with both arms up in the air like that. I can’t believe that.”

Withers made his vulnerable moments as sharp as his angry moments, and his angry songs were as complex as his love songs. “Just As I Am” and its follow-up album, “Still Bill,” will still reign as some of the best songwriting and heartfelt singing of his generation or the next.

Wither’s genius, in front of and behind the mic, was honored in 2015 as one of the inductees into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

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New Book Explores Black Christian Experience in White Churches

By Nadine Matthews, Special to the AFRO

Being pregnant is hard enough for any woman. Trying to write a book while you’re pregnant can feel positively unbearable.

Austin Channing Brown tells the AFRO, “It was physically difficult. I was so tired.

I just wanted to take a nap all the time.

Trying to write when you’re nauseous, the baby’s little foot would be all up in my rib cage. You just can’t get comfortable. It was the biggest obstacle every time I had to sit down and write.”

Fortunately she feels incredibly passionate about the subject of her book, which helped her to push through and complete it.

I’m Still Here: Black Dignity In The Face of Whiteness is a memoir of a Black woman who has navigated White spaces since childhood. The book is also an intriguing chronicle of the not often enough explored realm of the Black Christian experience in White Evangelical churches and associated organizations. “I wanted to write a book that said to other Black women in particular, you’re not alone. As you give of yourself to these ministries and institutions I just wanted to affirm the experience and our perception of reality.”

Activist writer and speaker Channing Brown became interested in making this her life’s work while in college. “In college I had a mentor who was doing this same exact work. She would travel, preach and speak and do consulting for organizations that really wanted to be diverse,” she says.

The exposure made her realized that her

challenges were in fact universal. There were many Black women facing the same issues as her.

She eventually moved on to working with Evangelical organizations. Presumably with Christianity as a unifier, those spaces would have been safer for her to occupy. However, that wasn’t the case. In the book she says, “Being a Black woman in the professional world of majority-White non-profit ministries was far more difficult than my younger self could imagine.” She writes of her first-hand experiences with church organizations who couldn’t see past race.

Some of her recollections makes the reader flinch. In one instance, after completing a training class and closing with a prayer, a White male participant raged at her for no less than twenty minutes repeatedly charging, “Trayvon Martin was no victim.” When Channing Brown could not be persuaded to his way of thinking, he demanded to speak to whoever was “really in charge.”

Unlike many around her, Channing Brown expected Trump’s rise to political power.

“I was not even a little bit surprised,” she says. Her experiences in a diverse church, were like the canary in the coal mine. She recalls “I encountered racism on a regular basis because of this work. Racism didn’t rear its ugly head during the Trump campaign. It started as soon as Obama took office.”

Coinciding with Obama’s victory, she observed a rise in evangelical circles of doomsday scenarios. “I heard conversations where Obama was referred to as the

anti-Christ,” she recalls. “I remember going to a new church right before the election when it was looking like Obama was going to win, and a woman stood up and said God told her that there were going to be earthquakes, basically the world was about to explode. There was almost a decade of anger [at Obama’s presidency].”

She is still optimistic about the church.

“I am still proud that there is a segment of the church that is still focused on justice.

And yes, a majority of evangelicals support Trump, but there are lots of organizations that do read the Bible differently. There are

churches at the borders trying to keep families together, folks who are raising money to pay attorneys to help people. There are still a lot of churches fighting to be on the right side of history,” she says.

She is the first to admit that her work is psychically exhausting, as it is for many Black women in similar situations. For survival she laughingly suggests, “If you find that you’re really the only one, get out.

Everybody needs a friend.”

On a more serious note she offers, “Find other like minded folks. I don’t think I would have made it through my college

experience if it wasn’t for Black women; as professors, as teachers but also my peers.”

She also encourages women to “Remember you’re a whole person. So fight, but also dance, twerk in the mirror, eat good food, fall in love. Be a person, don’t give your whole self to the fight.”

Austin Channing Brown’s, ‘I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made For Whiteness,’ is a memoir of a Black woman who has navigated White spaces since childhood. (Courtesy photo)

OP-ED: Rep. Maxine Waters Takes Strong Stand for Fair Housing at HUD New Legislation Would Restore Revoked Protections and Rules

By Charlene Crowell, NNPA Newswire Columnist When Dr. Ben Carson was named Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), many housing and civil rights advocates wondered how a world-renowned neurosurgeon would direct the future of housing in America. By his own admission, he arrived at HUD with no governmental experience or active interest in housing’s history either.

Despite those professional shortcomings, Secretary Carson swiftly began a series of actions that triggered broad and sustained criticism from civil rights and housing policy advocates. On Secretary Carson’s watch, HUD proposed billion-dollar budget reductions, increased rental

fees for public housing tenants, removed explicit language on fair housing from the agency’s mission statement, and halted efforts that require local communities receiving HUD funds to address fair housing needs.

In sum, Secretary Carson has acted like a man on a mission with no time to spare.

This past January, Carson also announced a suspension of a key rule known as Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH). The rule that went into effect in July 2015 required any state, locality, or public housing authority receiving HUD funds to have a plan and timeline that incorporates community concerns to actively address fair housing issues in their locales.

Although civil rights and consumer protection advocates have brought legal challenges to reverse the suspension of AFFH and other misdeeds, the wheels of justice continue their characteristically slow and deliberate pace.

But California Congresswoman Maxine Waters recently stepped up to file legislation designed to cure many of the regressive ills pushed

by Secretary Carson. On June 26, she introduced a bill entitled, Restoring Fair Housing Protections Eliminated by HUD Act of 2018 (H.R. 6220).

“The Department of Housing and Urban Development is supposed to create strong communities; expand access to affordable housing; and enforce fair housing rights,” said Congresswoman Waters. “Unfortunately since becoming Secretary, Ben Carson has taken numerous steps to eliminate fair housing protections for the most vulnerable families in this country.”

The following day, June 27, the House Financial Services Committee, chaired by Rep. Jeb Hensarling of Texas, convened a hearing with Secretary Carson.

“Over the last 20 years, the HUD budget has doubled, whereas the family budget, which pays for it, has

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increased by less than double digits,” said Rep. Hensarling. “In fact, HUD’s budget has grown faster than almost every other federal budget function, including social security, education, and national defense.

HUD resources have not been the challenge, HUD’s focus and success has been.”

Speaking next as the Committee’s Ranking Member, Congresswoman Waters offered a completely opposite perspective on HUD and Secretary Carson. In her remarks, Rep. Waters underscored that her new legislation was intended to revoke key actions by Secretary Carson and return them to HUD’s fair housing agenda. Those actions included restoring: Fair housing language to the agency’s mission statement with the specific inclusion of text stating “inclusive and sustainable communities free from discrimination”; HUD’s AFFH rule as soon as practically possible following the bill’s enactment;

HUD’s Local Government Assessment Tool that helps state and local jurisdictions to comply with the AFFH rule within 30 days of enactment; a A requirement that the HUD Secretary report to Congress a Secretary-directed review of fair housing complaints that involve an online platform. Additionally, the Secretary’s report to Congress would include: an analysis of trends and risks related to discrimination, steps to address such discrimination, and the status of complaints filed.

The legislation also includes a requirement that owners and operators of HUD-funded homeless shelters to post a notice informing clients of their rights under an agency rule regarding gender identity. This rule affects any grantee receiving funding through the agency’s Community Planning and Development program.

Before yielding back the balance of her time, the Ranking Member Con’t on page

THE INNER-CITY NEWS - July 11, 2018 - July 17, 2018

Inspiring young people to discover their future.

To a young person, there’s nothing more motivating than a goal and the guidance to achieve it. For dozens of New Haven high school students, goals have become rewarding careers with the support and guidance of Yale New Haven Hospital.

Our School-to-Career program gives students in area high schools a unique opportunity to get hands-on training from Yale New Haven Hospital professionals, preparing them for their own careers in health care. The program, a combination of volunteer and paid internships, is a first step to college and vocational training that has led to rewarding jobs throughout the healthcare industry, including right here at Yale New Haven.

It makes us proud to know that we have played such a vital role in their success through School-to-Career. It’s another example of our commitment to caring beyond the bedside. ynhh.org/community

Priscilla Torres, Patient Care Associate, Yale New Haven Hospital and graduate of the School-to-Career program with mentor Nancy Busch, Patient Services Manager, Yale New Haven Hospital.

Yale New Haven Hospital was awarded the 2017 Foster G. McGaw Prize for Excellence in Community Service from the American Hospital Association. The McGaw Prize is awarded annually to a single healthcare organization that provides innovative programs that significantly improve the health and well-being of its community.

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INNER-CITY NEWS July 27, 2016 -- August 02, 2016 THE INNER-CITY NEWS - July 11, 2018 July 17, 2018

***HELP WANTED***

Dispatcher

NOTICE

TOTAL FENCE LLC currently has a full time opening for a fence installer foreman.

SOON ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR HARBOUR TOWNHOME APARTMENTS

Galasso Materials is seeking a motivated, organized, detail-oriented candidate to join its truck dispatch office. Responsibilities include order entry and truck ticketing in a fast paced materials Candidates must have at least 5 years of fencing experience, strong commumanufacturing VALENTINA MACRI RENTAL HOUSING PREAPPLICATIONS AVAILABLEand contracting company. You will have daily innication skills, the ability to provide clear and detailed instructions to their teraction with employees and customers as numerous truckloads crew and management, a reliable form of daily transportation, a valid driver’s of material cross our scales daily. We are willing to train the right license, have the ability to obtain a DOT medical card and to a physical HOME INC, on behalf of Columbus House andagree the New Haven Housing Authority, individual that has a great attitude. NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE. andisdrug testing as required. accepting pre-applications for studio and one-bedroom apartments at this develReply to Hiring Manager, PO Box 1776, East Granby, CT 06026. opment located at 108 Frank Street, New Haven. Maximum income limitations apEOE/M/F/D/V. A valid CDL and current OSHA card are encouraged.

ply. Pre-applications will be available from 9AM TO 5PM beginning Monday Ju;y 25, 2016 and ending when sufficient pre-applications (approximately 100) have Please apply in person to: been received at the officesFENCE of HOME TOTAL LLCINC. Applications will be mailied upon request by calling HOME INC at 203-562-4663 during those hours.Our Completed pre525 ELLA GRASSO BOULEVARD tree service company is looking for a laborer applications mustNEW be returned to CT HOME INC’s offices at 171 Orange Street, Third HAVEN, 06519 to assist the Shop manager. Basic mechanic knowlFloor, New CT 06510.

Or Haven, email resume to: gina@totalfencellc.com

Shop Assistant

***No phone calls please*** Total Fence LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer

NOTICIA

edge a must Responsible for filling in where needed around our garage and yard. Doing minor repairs and maintenance on equipment and vehicles, loading mulch and/or firewood

VALENTINA***HELP MACRI VIVIENDAS DE ALQUILER PRE-SOLICITUDES DISPONIBLES WANTED***

Candidate is subject to a drug check.

TOTAL FENCE LLC currently has a full time opening one Housing Authority, HOME INC, en nombre de la Columbus House y de la Newfor Haven está Email resume to mclellantree@comcast.net fence installer helper. aceptando pre-solicitudes para estudios y apartamentos de un dormitorio en este desarrollo ubicado en la calle 109 Frank Street, New Haven. Se aplican limitaciones de ingresos Or Fax: 860-261-7755

Candidates must have at least 1 year of fencing experience, a reliWe areMartes a medium sized 30+ year company that offers máximos. Las pre-solicitudes estarán disponibles 09 a.m.-5 p.m. comenzando 25 able form of daily transportation, a valid driver’s license, have the julio, 2016 hasta cuando se han recibido suficientes pre-solicitudes (aproximadamente 100) medical and dental benefits as well as 401K plan ability to obtain a DOT medical card and agree to a physical and en testing las oficinas de HOME INC. Las pre-solicitudes serán enviadas por correo aAffirmative petición Action/Equal Opportunity Employer drug as required.

llamando a HOME INC al 203-562-4663 durante esas horas.Pre-solicitudes deberán remitirse . a las A oficinas de HOME INC enOSHA 171 Orange Street, tercer piso, New Haven , CT 06510KMK valid CDL and current card are encouraged.

Insulation Inc. Please apply in person to: TOTAL FENCE LLC 525 ELLA GRASSO BOULEVARD NEW HAVEN, CT 06519 Or email resume to: gina@totalfencellc.com ***No phone calls please*** Total Fence LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer

1907 Hartford Turnpike North Haven, CT 06473

Mechanical Insulator position.

Affordable Rental Housing – Studio & 1 Bedroom Units 1645 Black Rock Turnpike, Fairfield CT 06825 The application period will begin later this summer 2018. We will be following up this mailing with at least 2 more over the coming months updating you on the status of everything.

Owner: Harbour Townhomes, LLC Managing Agent: ARG Consulting Applicants will need to meet certain income requirements based on family size for 60% and 80% of Area Median Income. Applications will be received during the to-be-determined application period and placement on the wait list will be made through the random selection method, once the period has ended. The maximum number of applications to be placed on the wait list is twenty (20).

1.5 person family 60% AMI Max limit $42,210 1.5 person family 80% AMI Max limit $56,280 Applications will be provided to any & all interested persons when the application period begins. All units are studio or 1 bedroom units with stainless steel appliances and granite countertops. Individuals interested should email harbourtownhomes@gmail.com with their name, email, phone number, current address, and what style of unit (studio or 1 bedroom) they are interested in. We will follow up with you as the application period nears.

For Additional Information Contact Anthony: Email: harbourtownhomes@gmail.com

DELIVERY PERSON NEEDED

Insulation company offering good pay and benefits.

Please mail resume to above address.. MAIL ONLY This company is an Affirmative Action/ Equal Opportunity Employer.

NEW HAVEN

Invitation to Bid:

Part Time Delivery Needed One/Two Day a Week,

242-258 Fairmont Ave 2nd Notice Large CT. Fence Company is looking for an individual for stock yard. Warehouse shipping and receiving and Forklift 2BR Townhouse, 1.5 BA, 3BR, 1 levelour , 1BA Must Have Own Vehicle If Interested call SAYEBROOKE VILLAGE

experience a must. Must have a minimum of 3 years’ material Common Highnew School is seeking a Full Time All newGround apartments, appliances, new carpet, close to I-91 & I-95 Old Saybrook, CT

(203) 435-1387

Teaching Assistant (TA). The TA is responsible for supporting handling experience. Must be able to read and write English, and highways, near bus stop & shopping center (4 Buildings, 17 Units) teachers in the classroom during the school day, providing targeted read a tape measure. Duties will include: Loading and unloadPet under 40lb allowed.

Interested contactand Maria @ 860-985-8258 supports in academic labs both during and parties after school, assisting trucks, pulling orders for installation andTax retail counter sales, Exempt & Not Prevailing Wage Rate Project ing with summer academic programs. For a full job description keeping the yard clean and organized at all times and inventory and how to apply, please visit http://commongroundct.org/2018/05/ control. Individual will also make deliveries of fence panels and CT. Unified Deacon’s Association is pleased to offer a Deacon’s Framed, Housing, Selective Demolition, Site-work, Cast- is currently accepting applications common-ground-is-seeking-a-special-education-teaching-assistantproducts, must be able to New lift atConstruction, least 70lbs. Wood Required to pass a Certificate Program. This is a 10 month program designed to assist in the intellectual formation of Candidates AsphalttoShingles, Vinylin Siding, Driver’s Concrete, License and in response to the Church’s Ministry needs. The cost is $125. Classes start Saturday,Physical August 20,and 2016 Drug 1:30- test, have a valid CT. in-place participate the exam for Public Safety Dispatcher. Hourly rate of 3:30 Contact: Chairman, Deacon Joe J. Davis, M.S., B.S. be able to obtain a Drivers Medical CDL B & A10 drivers Flooring,Card.

Painting, Division Specialties, Casework, payAppliances, is $24.54.Residential Candidate must possess High School diploma or GED, (203) 996-4517 Host, General Bishop Elijah Davis, D.D. Pastor of Pitts Chapel U.F.W.B. Church 64 Brewster a plus. Send resume to pking@atlasourdoor.com AA/EOE/MF Large CT fence & guardrail contractor looking for a shop weld-

The Town of East Haven

Welder:

New include Haven, but CT are not limited to welding & fabricating gates, plating posts, truck er.St.Duties and trailer repairs. Must be able to weld steel and aluminum. Some road work may be required. All necessary equipment provided. Must have a valid CT driver’s license and be able to obtain a DOT medical card. Required to pass a physical and drug test. Medical, vacation & other benefits included. Please email resume to pboucher@atlasoutdoor. com AA/EOE-MF

Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing and Fire Protection. successfully pass background investigation and fingerprinting, pass a exam including a drug screening test as well as have the ability This contract is subject to state set-asidephysical and contract compliance requirements.

NEW HAVEN EARLY CHILHDOOD COUNCIL REQUEST FOR QUALITY ENHANCEMENT PROPOSALS

SEYMOUR HOUSING AUTHORITY

to distinguish and identify different colors and pass a hearing test. Must

possess good computer skills, have the ability to learn new computer upBid Extended, Due Date: August 5, 2016 dates and systems as they are implemented and obtain and maintain State The New Haven Early Childhood Council isAnticipated seeking toStart: August 15, 2016 Sealed bids are invited by the Housing Authority of the Town of quality Seymour of Connecticut Telecommunication Certification. Must become trained fund enhancement (QE) projects for the period Project documents available via ftp link below: until 3:00 pm on Tuesday, August 2, 2016 at its office at 28July Smith Street, 1, 2018 to June 30, 2019 for the following services: in Emergency Medical Dispatch (EMD).

Additional Preferred Qualifihttp://ftp.cbtghosting.com/loginok.html?username=sayebrookevillage Seymour, CT Sidewalk cations: Ability to speak and understand Spanish, demonstrated knowlwith06483 3 years for min. Concrete exp. HAZMAT Endorsed.Repairs and Replacement at the • on-site education consultation to prek programs Smithfield Gardens(Tractor/Triaxle/Roll-off) Assisted Living Facility, 26 Smith Street Seymour. edge of local geography, Emergency Medical Technician, previous dis• mental health resources for children families in prek programs; Fax orand Email Questions & Bids to: Dawn Lang @ 203-881-8372 dawnlang@haynesconstruction.com

Class A CDL Driver

Some overnights may be required. FAX resumes to RED Technologies, at • professional development trainings related to CT Early Standards, patch/police/fire experience, HCC encourages theLearning participation of all Veteran, S/W/MBE & Section 3 Certified Businessesprevious NCIC/Collect/911 experience and 860.342-1042; Email: HR@redtechllc.com Mail or in person: 173 Pickering trauma informed care and topics required Street,conference Portland, CT 06480.

REDheld Technologies, is An EOE.Authority Office 28 Smith Haynes Construction Company, 32 Progress Ave,in Seymour, CT 06483 certified ProQA. Please apply at www.PoliceApp.com/EastHavenCT. A pre-bid will be at theLLC Housing

AA/EEO EMPLOYER The fee

Street Seymour, CT at 10:00 am, on Wednesday, July 20, 2016.

by School Readiness and NAEYC.

TRANSFER STATION LABORER

Off load trailers, reload for trans/disp. Lift 50 lbs., operate industrial powered trucks and forklift.

Asbestos Worker Handler Training a +. Resumes to RED Technologies, LLC, 173 Pickering St., Portland, CT 06480; Fax 860-342-1022; or Email to lkelly@redtransfer.com RED Technologies, LLC is an EOE.

to apply is $40 and the deadline is July 20, 2018.

An info session will be held Monday, May 12th from 2-3pm at 54 Meadow

Street, conference Ofroom 3B. To receive the RFP and for established rates for each Bidding documents are available from the Seymour Housing Authority service type, contact the School Readiness office fice, 28 Smith Street, Seymour, CT 06483 (203) 888-4579.

Denised@nhps.net 203-946-7875.

The Housing Authority reserves the right to accept or reject any or all bids, to reduce the scope of the project to reflect available funding, and to waive any

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The Town of East Haven is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Minorities, Females, Veterans and Handicapped are encouraged to apply.

INNER-CITY NEWS July 2016 -- August THE INNER-CITY NEWS - July 1127, , 2018 July 17, 2018 02, 2016

The Housing Authority of the City of Bridgeport

Sickle Cell Disease Association of America, Southern CT (SCDAA.SC) NOTICE Director of Operations

The role of the SCDAA.SC Director of Operations is to APPLICATIONS handle day-to-dayAVAILABLE operations with VALENTINA MACRI RENTAL HOUSING PREa focus on efficiency. The Director of Operations will be responsible for organizing and coordinating administrative duties, providing general administrative support to the Board HOME INC, on behalf of Columbus House and the New Haven Housing Authority, of Directors and ensuring the smooth running of the office. She/he will maintain adminis accepting pre-applications studioand anddevelopment one-bedroom apartments devel-to istrative and financial procedures,for identify new resources at (asthis needed) opment Frank Street, New Haven. Maximum income limitations apsupport thelocated missionat of108 SCDAA.SC.

ply. Pre-applications will be available from 9AM TO 5PM beginning Monday Ju;y

25,position 2016 and ending when sufficient pre-applications 100) have The reports directly to the Board Chair to assure the (approximately efficiency, effectiveness and impact the organization to the sickle cell community. beenofreceived at the offices of HOME INC. Applications will be mailied upon re-

quest by calling HOME INC at 203-562-4663 during those hours. Completed preapplications must be returned to HOME INC’s offices at 171 Orange Street, Third Minimal Qualifications: • Baccalaureate Degree marketing, finance, management and or associated social sciFloor, New Haven, CTin06510.

ence or public health degree or related experience • Moderate development experience with a demonstrated track record of success.

• Experience with grant writing and grant management.

• Demonstrated strength in developing partnerships and collaborative relationships associatedVALENTINA partnershipMACRI development.

Ability work withPRE-SOLICITUDES a diverse group of business associates VIVIENDAS DEtoALQUILER DISPONIBLES and volunteers.

• Some experience managing capital campaigns and a diverse portfolio of funding sources HOME INC, en nombre de la Columbus House y de la New Haven Housing Authority, está inclusive of grants and contracts. aceptando pre-solicitudes para estudios y apartamentos de un and dormitorio en estethat desarrollo • Must be versed in all contemporary social media platforms other venues benefit enour la calle 109 Frank Street, Newpublic Haven. aplican limitaciones de ingresos andubicado advance organization to the general andSestakeholders máximos.

Lasofpre-solicitudes estarán disponibles 09 a.m.-5 p.m. comenzando Martes 25 • Some degree human resource management 2016writing hasta cuando se han recibido suficientes • julio, Excellent and oral communication skills pre-solicitudes (aproximadamente 100) • Some Sickle Cell Disease andenviadas its current relative en las degree oficinasofdeunderstanding HOME INC.ofLas pre-solicitudes serán porchallenges correo a petición to prevalence, epidemiology and fundingdurante esas horas.Pre-solicitudes deberán remitirse llamando a HOME INC al 203-562-4663 a las oficinas de HOME INC en 171 Orange Street, tercer piso, New Haven , CT 06510 .

NOTICIA

The Housing Authority of the City of Bridgeport Invitation for Bid (IFB) Phineas T. Barnum Apartments Ventilation Upgrades Solicitation Number: 109-PD-18-S The Housing Authority of the City of Bridgeport d/b/a Park City Communities (PCC) is requesting sealed bids for P.T. Barnum Apartments Ventilation Upgrades. A complete set of the plans and technical specifications will be available on June 11, 2018. To obtain a copy of the solicitation you must send your request to bids@ parkcitycommunities.org, please reference solicitation number and title on the subject line. A MANDATORY pre-bid conference will be held at 96 Bird Street, Bridgeport, CT 06605 on June 26, 2018 @ 10:00 a.m., submitting a bid for the project without attending conference is not in the best interest of the Offeror. Additional questions should be emailed only to bids@parkcitycommunities. org no later than July 5, 2018 @ 3:00 p.m. Answers to all the questions will be posted on PCC’s Website: www.parkcitycommunities. org. All bids must be received by mailed or hand delivered by July 12, 2018 @ 2:00 PM, to Ms. Caroline Sanchez, Director of Procurement, 150 Highland Ave, Bridgeport, CT 06604, at which time and place all bids will be publicly opened and read aloud. No bids will be accepted after the designated time.

EXP, welder for structural steel, misc. metals shop Send resume: hherbert@gwfabrication.com

Major functional responsibilities and duties:

• Significant strength relative to office administration.

• Grant management and grant writing proficiency.

• Donor stewardship and capital campaign fund development and management.

• Overall budget oversight with strong familiarity with spread sheet analysis (e.g., Excel).

• Provide strong oversight relative to community engagement and collaboration.

• Provide support to appropriate board committees as directed by Board Chair.

• Perform a variety of advanced financial analyses to determine present and forecasted financial health of the Association.

• Present potential scenarios and outcomes to the management team that supports the All newmission. apartments, new appliances, new carpet, close to I-91 & I-95 organization’s highways, bus stop & shopping center on the organiza• Assure all timely and relevant near SCDAA.SC information is maintained tion’s website and 40lb all social media platforms.

Pet under allowed.

Interested parties contact Maria @ 860-985-8258 • Oversee the preparation and submission of all compliance reports.

• Collaborate with management on development and execution of funding strategies.

• CT. Examine financial and legal documents verify accuracy and adherence to financial Unified Deacon’s Association is pleased to offerto a Deacon’s Certificate Program.

This is a 10financial month program designed to assist in the intellectual formation of Candidates regulations and acceptable principles. in response to the Church’s Ministry needs. The cost is $125. Classes start Saturday, August 20, 2016 1:30• Develop and oversee our annual fundraising program.

3:30 Contact: Chairman, Deacon Joe J. Davis, M.S., B.S. • Research donor relation atDavis, local,D.D. state andoffederal art U.F.W.B. institutions (203) 996-4517 Host, Generalprograms Bishop Elijah Pastor Pitts Chapel Church 64 Brewster • Ensure timely and accurate reporting to funders.

St. New Haven, CT • Collaborate with staff on the management and planning of fundraising events and donor receptions.

NEW HAVEN

242-258 Fairmont Ave 2BR Townhouse, 1.5 BA, 3BR, 1 level , 1BA

SEYMOUR HOUSING AUTHORITY

For all interested candidates, please submit cover letter and resume to: admteam. scdaasc@gmail.com Only electronic submissions will beof accepted.

Sealed bids areNote: invited by the Housing Authority the Town of Seymour

until 3:00 pm on Tuesday, August 2, 2016 at its office at 28 Smith Street, Group, Seymour, CT 06483The for Glendower Concrete Sidewalk RepairsInc and Replacement at the Smithfield Gardens Assisted Living Facility, 26 Smith Street Seymour.

Request for Proposals Market Research A pre-bid conference will be held and at theBrand HousingPositioning Authority Office 28 Smith Street Seymour, CTIncatan10:00 am,ofon Wednesday, 2016.

The Glendower Group, affiliate Housing AuthorityJuly City20, of New Haven d/b/a Elm city Communities is currently seeking proposals for Market Research and Brand Positioning.

A complete copy of are the available requirementfrom may the be obtained from Elm City’s Vendor OfColBidding documents Seymour Housing Authority laboration Portal https://newhavenhousing.cobblestonesystems.com/gateway beginning fice, 28 Smith Street, Seymour, CT 06483 (203) 888-4579. on Monday, May 21, 2018 at 3:00PM The Housing Authority reserves the right to accept or reject any or all bids, to reduce the scope of the project to reflect available funding, and to waive any

FENCE ERECTING CONTRACTORS

Field Engineer

BA/BS in Civil Engineering or Construction Management.

2-5 yrs. experience. OSHA Certified.

Proficient in reading contract plans and specifications.

Resumes to RED Technologies, LLC, 10 Northwood Dr., Bloomfield, CT 06002; Fax 860.218.2433; Email resumes to info@redtechllc.com. RED Technologies, LLC is an EOE.

Project Manager Environmental Remediation Division 3-5 years exp. and Bachelor’s Degree, 40-Hr. Hazwoper Training Req. Forward resumes to RED Technologies, LLC, 10 Northwood Dr., Bloomfield, CT 06002;

Fax 860.218.2433; or Email to HR@redtechllc.com

RED Technologies, LLC is an EOE.

Garrity Asphalt Reclaiming, Inc

seeks: Construction Equipment Mechanic preferably experienced in Reclaiming and Road Milling Equipment. We offer factory training on equipment we operate. Location: Bloomfield CT We offer excellent hourly rate & excellent benefits Contact: Dan Peterson Phone: 860- 243-2300 email: dpeterson@garrityasphalt.com Women & Minority Applicants are encouraged to apply Affirmative Action/ Equal Opportunity Employer

Garrity Asphalt Reclaiming, Inc

Large CT Fence & Guardrail Contractor is looking for seeks: Reclaimer Operators and Milling Operators Fence Installer foreman and helpers. Foreman must have at with current licensing and clean driving record, be least 5 years’ experience. Helpers-no experience required, willing to travel throughout the Northeast & NY. will train the right person. Work available 10-12 months per We offer excellent hourly rate & excellent benefits Invitationand to Bid: year. Valid Ct. Driver’s license required must be able Contact: Rick Tousignant to get a DOT Medical Card. All necessary equipment pro2nd Notice Phone: 860- 243-2300 vided. Medical, vacation & other benefits included. Must be Email: rick.tousignant@garrityasphalt.com able to pass a physical and drug test. Foreman rates from Women & Minority Applicants are encouraged to apply Saybrook, CT $16 to $22 to $28.10/hour plus benefits,Old helper rates from Affirmative Action/ Equal Opportunity Employer $18.10/hour plus benefits. OSHA 10 training required.

(4 Buildings, 17 Units) Please email resume to pking@atlasoutdoor.com AA/EOE Tax Exempt & Not Prevailing Wage Rate Project

SAYEBROOKE VILLAGE

Union Company seeks:

VanNew Driver to transport w/disabilities Construction, Woodindividuals’ Framed, Housing, SelectivereceivDemolition,Tractor Site-work,Trailer Cast- Driver for Heavy & Highway Coning services according to assigned schedule/destination. HS struction Equipment. Must have a CDL License, in-place Concrete, Asphalt Shingles, Vinyl Siding, diploma/GED plus 3-12 months exp/training. Current CT PSL/ clean driving record, capable of operating heavy Flooring, Division 10 Specialties, Appliances, Residential Casework, Medical Card a Painting, must. Split shift 20-25 hrs/week. Pay rate $11.85/ equipment; be willing to travel throughout the hr. Apply to: GWSNE, Recruitment Mgr., 432 Washington Ave, Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing and Fire Protection.

North Haven, CT 06473/fax (203) 495-6108/ hr@goodwillsne.

This contract is subject to state set-aside and contract compliance requirements. Northeast & NY. org EOE/AA – M/F/D/V We offer excellent hourly rate & excellent benefits Contact Dana at 860-243-2300.

Bid Extended, Due Date: August 5, 2016 Email: dana.briere@garrityasphalt.com Listing: Accounting-AR Specialist

Anticipated Start: August 15, 2016 Women & Minority Applicants are encouraged to apply Project documents available via ftp link below: Affirmative Action/ Equal Opportunity Employer Immediate opening for an experienced professional in http://ftp.cbtghosting.com/loginok.html?username=sayebrookevillage an extremely fast-paced petroleum environment. Re

quires AR knowledge, high volume billing experience FENCE ERECTING SUBCONTRACTORS or Email Questions & Bids to: Dawn Lang @ 203-881-8372 dawnlang@haynesconstruction.com and Fax familiarity with Excel, Adds Energy experience HCC encourages the participation of all Veteran, S/W/MBE & Section 3 Certified Businesses a plus. Candidate must possess level of ac-CT 06483 Haynes Construction Company,a32high Progress Ave, Seymour, Large CT Fence & Guardrail Contractor is looking curacy and attention to detail. AA/EEO Petroleum industry and for experienced, responsible commercial and resiEMPLOYER propane experience a plus. Send resume to: Human dential fence erectors and installers on a subcontracResource Dept. P O Box 388, Guilford CT 06437. tor basis. Earn from $750 to $2,000 per day. Email

**An Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer**

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resume to pking@atlasoutdoor.com AA/EOE

THE INNER-CITY NEWS - July 11, 2018 - July 17, 2018

Listen to the Poor and Disenfranchised

By William Barber II and Liz Theoharis

The Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis spoke on a panel June 26 on poverty in the U.S. with UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty Philip Alston. Following the panel, Theoharis and the Rev. William Barber II delivered the following letter to the UN Human Rights Council requesting a hearing on extreme poverty across the 50 states. It has been lightly edited for clarity.

We, the leaders of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival, request to convene a hearing before the U.N. Human Rights Council on the state of poverty in our nation. After more than three years of traveling across the U.S., meeting with poor communities from El Paso to Aberdeen to Detroit to Selma, Harlan County, Marks and Memphis, we have just completed 40 days of nonviolent moral fusion direct action with more than 3,000 poor people, clergy and other activists presenting themselves for nonviolent civil disobedience, culminating in a call to action rally and march of tens of thousands of people putting a face on the facts, demanding an end to abandonment in the midst of abundance.

We write with a sense of urgency.

Just last week, the U.S. doubled down on its commitment to inflicting policy violence against children and families by pulling out of the United Nations’ Human Rights Council. Days later, U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Nikki

Haley responded to a report from the U.N.’s special rapporteur on poverty by saying, “It is patently ridiculous for the United Nations to examine poverty in America.”

Here is what is patently ridiculous: Today, despite substantial economic growth, a full 60 percent more Americans live below the poverty line than in 1968, and 43 percent of all U.S. children live below the minimum income level considered necessary to meet basic family needs. Fifty-three cents of every federal discretionary dollar goes to military spending, while only 15 cents is spent on antipoverty programs. An alarming 13.8 million U.S. households cannot afford water, and a quarter million people die in the U.S. each year from poverty and related issues. And 23 states have enacted voter suppression laws since 2010, leaving the U.S. with fewer voting rights than we had 50 years.

In recent weeks it has been brought to the public’s attention that brown children have been systematically separated from their families at the border. Inside our borders, families of all races are separated from health care, food stamps and a living wage, and with widespread voter suppression and racist gerrymandering, millions of people have been separated from the ballot box. Hundreds of thousands of children are taken away from their parents because of their poverty; we hear the cries of the people “take away our poverty, not our children; take away unjust policies,

The Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II, right, and Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis, left.

(Instagram Photo) not our children.”

Our democracy is impoverished.

Policies serve the few at the expense of the many, while leaders spread lies to divide people against each other. To be clear: poverty is a moral and political crisis, one that this administration and Congress is inflaming instead of solving. Every policy decision is a moral one, but choices being made by our leaders have been overwhelmingly immoral. We need to reshape the heart and conscience of this nation, starting from the ground up. We need immediate and major changes to ad-

dress systemic racism, poverty, ecological devastation, the war economy and our distorted moral narrative.

Seventy-one years ago, W.E.B. DuBois submitted a petition to the United Nations about the unequal treatment of Black Americans. More than 50 years ago, Malcolm X approached the U.N. with a similar message, charging the United States with being, “either unable or unwilling to protect the lives and property of your 22 million African American brothers and sisters.”

Both human rights leaders and countless others including welfare rights

activists, indigenous leaders, women and other marginalized groups, addressed the U.N. at times when the US government failed to bring forth solutions to moral and political crises.

Since our government is committing policy violence against its citizens, and exacerbating poverty instead of alleviating it, we urge the U.N. Human Rights Council to hear directly from the poor and dispossessed of the United States.

We call on you to listen to the Alabama woman whose daughter died in her arms because the state refused to expand Medicaid; to the undocumented California woman struggling to raise a family; to the Kansas City McDonald’s worker battling to raise three young girls on $9/hour; and to the Flint woman who is fighting for clean water in her community still four years after it became public that public officials had knowingly poisoned the whole city. We know you’ve heard from the special rapporteur on the conditions; now we ask you hear directly from those impacted by America’s policy violence.

As W.E.B. DuBois, Malcolm X and other human rights activists requested decades ago, we request an audience with you because our government seems unwilling or incapable of doing the right thing.

The Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II and Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis are the national co-chairs, Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival.

Black-Owned Bottled Water Brand Makes History as the First to Be Sold in Walmart

For the first time in history, Walmart is selling a Black-owned bottled water brand on its shelves. It’s called Live Alkaline Water, and it is 100% natural alkaline water that is bottled at the source from a natural underground spring, an aquifer, and a mineral rock bed that lies 800 feet below the ground.

The company is based in Jacksonville, Florida, but the water comes from a family-owned spring in North Carolina that has been passed down for generations. The quality and high PH balance of the water has been tested and certified by the state of North Carolina, as well as the University of North Carolina in Greensboro.

How they did it When Robert McCray, whose family has owned the spring for more than

100 years, learned that the water in their spring could be sold as a product, he decided to partner with Dr. Shayla Creer to create the brand. They both knew that the bottled water industry was very competitive, but they still believed that they had a unique product that could compete.

Dr. Creer told First Coast News, “I called... many Walmarts, and finally we got a hold of one who allowed us to do a presentation.” Soon after, they presented their business plan to a local Walmart... and to their surprise, the regional manager was there and decided to give them a chance.

Of course, they were thrilled. “It was hard to keep our composure,” said McCray, “because its the product that was [our] baby.”

And they had every right to be excited because not only did they be-

come the first Black-owned bottled water brand to be sold by Walmart, but their product sold out within just one month! Walmart has since reordered, and plans to continue selling their water and possibly adding the product to more stores across the country.

The benefits of alkaline water Alkaline water has long been recommended by naturopathic doctors and others for its high PH balance, which can boost a person’s immune system to naturally fight off disease. As an anti-oxidant, it also can slow down & reverse the damage done by diseasecausing free radicals.

According to McCray and Dr. Sheer, the 100% organic minerals in Live Alkaline Water work together to naturally boost energy levels by cleansing

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your cells & ridding your body of toxins that slow you down. They also say that their water contains the highest levels of 100% organic, natural minerals that not only help keep the body functioning at its best, but also give it a fresh, pure, taste that people love so

much.

For more details about Live Alkaline Waterand where exactly it can be purchased, visit their web site at www. live-alkalinewater.com or follow them on Facebook.

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OP-ED: Rep. Maxine Waters Takes Strong Stand added, “Congress should not stand by while the agency charged with ensuring fair housing turns its back on its mission and takes actions that roll back critical protections that ensure that all Americans have fair access to housing.”

For his part, Secretary Carson noted that each year, HUD receives an estimated 8,000 fair housing complaints. In speaking to the 50th anniversary of the Fair Housing Act, he also added, “HUD and our fair housing partners continue to enforce the letter and [sic] spirit of this landmark law.”

Early reactions to Secretary Carson’s comments reflect how his words and his actions diverge.

“Fifty years ago, Congress empowered HUD to dismantle legalized discrimination in housing to create opportunity for all as where you live is a factor in so many of life’s outcomes, including education and healthcare,” noted Nikitra Bailey, an EVP with the Center for Responsible Lending (CRL). “Rep. Waters’ new bill requires HUD to remain steadfast in its responsibility to foster inclusive communities free of discrimination so that all Americans have the ability to thrive.

And Bailey is not alone. Beyond CRL, H.R. 6220 is also supported by several civil rights and housing advocates that include: National Fair Housing Alliance, The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, Local Initiatives Support Corporation (also known as LISC), NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, National Community Reinvestment Coalition, National Housing Law Project, PolicyLink, and other organizations.

The bill has been referred to two House Committees, Judiciary and Financial Services. Time will tell whether in the year marking the golden anniversary of the Fair Housing Act if other Members of Congress will stand up for fair housing too.

Charlene Crowell is the Center for Responsible Lending’s Deputy Communications Director. She can be reached at Charlene.crowell@ responsiblelending.org.

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Serena Williams Says She is Drug-Tested More Than Other Athletes

Nationwide — Sports news and blog website Deadspin recently revealed in an article that professional tennis player Serena Williams has been tested more than twice compared to other top American women tennis players. Williams couldn’t help but to think about why that has happened.

“I never knew that I was tested so much more than everyone else,” Williams said about the Deadspin article during a press conference for her Wimbledon tournament in London. “Until I read that articl,e I didn’t realize it was such a discrepancy with me as well aAs against the other players that they listed, at least the American players – both male and female.”

According to the article posted at Deadspin last week, the seven-time Wimbledon champion has been tested five times this year alone. That is more than double the number of tests done to other top American women’s tennis players wherein some were tested twice and others not even tested yet.

“It would be impossible for me to not feel some kind of way about that,” said the 36-year-old tennis player. “I just found it quite interesting.”

The Deadspin article also stated the controversy wherein Williams received a “missed test” rating just because the doping control officer showed up 12 hours earlier than they had agreed upon and she wasn’t able to get to the meeting that time.

Williams said it was “a little frustrating.”

The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency guideline states that athletes will receive a doping rule violation when they get three “missed test” designations. In line with that, they require athletes to let them know of their whereabouts within one hour before the scheduled testing. If they’re not available within that one-hour window, they will receive a “missed test.” But if the tester showed up unannounced and the athlete is not available, they will not be given a “missed test” designation.

“How is it I’m getting tested five times?

I’m OK with that. Literally verbatim I said: ‘I’m going with that, as long as everyone is being treated equally. That’s all I care about,’” she added.

“Tennis has given me so much. It’s such an amazing sport. I feel like equality, that’s

all I’ve been preaching, it’s all about equality,” Williams continued. “If that’s testing everyone five times, let’s do it. Let’s be a part of it. It’s just about being equal and not centering one person out. Just due to the numbers, it looks like I’m being pushed out. Just test everyone equally.”

A spokeswoman for Williams told Deadspin that the testing was “invasive and targeted.”

“Over her 23-year career in tennis, Serena Williams has never tested positive for any illegal substance despite being tested significantly more than other professional tennis players, both male and female – in fact, four times more frequently than her peers,” she said in a statement.

Meanwhile, the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency “may target test athletes as USADA deems appropriate,” spokesman Brad Horn told Deadspin, noting that the testing is not unfair. “We test only in accordance with international standards and would never conduct testing in an unfair way. We are always available to discuss this with athletes, if they have concerns.”

Father’s Living Healthy, Happy and Fit!

by Priscilla Q. Williams, RN

While we recently celebrated Father’s Day there are so many strong black men leading their families by being the example. They are not only going to work, raising their children, and supporting their spouse but they are being intentional about their health as well. The stereotype is that most black men don’t go to the doctor regularly and you must drag them to the hospital when something is wrong.

That may be true in some cases, but the men I know in my life take care of their health. According to the CDC, black men live 7.1 years less than other racial groups. At this alarming rate, I believe more men are starting to take control of their health and lead their families down the path to a healthier life.

Here are few fathers who lead by example and want to live their best life, a healthy life!

Curtis Williams– 46-year-old husband and father of 3 children and 1 grandchild who works out on a regular. Curtis runs outside about 2 miles in the hot Florida heat a couple times a week. He states while he is running it not only makes him feel good, but it gives him tons of energy.

He eats a healthy diet one that includes fruit and vegetables and drinks lots of water throughout the day.

Curtis also limits his consumption of

While we all have stress in our life at some point, it’s up to you to control the stress. Stress can be a ticking time bomb to poor health. Stress can increase your blood pressure, cause headaches, cause stomach issues and even increase depression. If you are under a serious amount of stress don’t wait until it affects your physical health, do something about it immediately. This may include, doing things you enjoy, working out, getting enough rest, and talking to someone if you need too.

Listen to your body

beef and haven’t eaten pork in over 20 years. He sets the example for his family because he wants his entire family to be healthy.

Elliot Vandyke– 46-year-old single parent of 2 children works out regularly while working as the head coach for the Jacksonville Sheriff’s PALS Track Team. Elliot not only works out with the kids on the track team, but he plays sports regularly to stay fit. He believes this will help him stay healthy and free of disease.

Barry Sewell– 44-year old Husband and father of 2 states that he leads a healthy lifestyle by going to the gym

at least 3 times a week, lift weights along with running and boxing. Barry also says he likes to ride his bike with his wife and kids.

He told me he likes to take time for himself as well by doing things he loves, which includes deejaying around Chicagoland and creating music which helps him unwind and detox.

These 3 fathers are examples of men leading their families toward healthier lives. I want to share with 3 more ways men can live healthier lives and decrease their risk disease.

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Have a relationship with your doctor Men do you have a primary care physician? Having a physician that you can communicate with is important to maintaining good health. It is vital to make sure you are getting your annual exams including prostate exams, blood pressure screenings, blood work, and cancer screenings. Early detection is key and being proactive about your health is what keeps you living in optimal health.

Decrease the stress in your life

Your body is a well-designed machine and it will let you know when something is not right. If you are having symptoms of an illness, make sure to see a doctor. Don’t ignore symptoms!

For example, if you notice a change in your energy level to the point that you can barely get through your day this may be a sign of diabetes, cancer, or even heart disease. You can’t go wrong by getting checked out.

Men overall make sure to take care of your mind, body, and spirit so you will be better able to take care of your family. Men make the choice of good health, long life, healthier families.

Priscilla Q. Williams, RN: Author, Speaker, Certified Life Coach, Global Nurse Educator www.priscillaqwilliams.com

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