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January 6-8, 2022

Erected in 1894, the Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Monument in Libby Hill Park is taken down on July 8, 2020, along with other city-owned Confederate statues. Right, The Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia on West Leigh Street in Jackson Ward.

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Twist of fate

Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia to get Confederate statues that stood on Monument Avenue scenes talks, Gov. Northam and Mayor Stoney jointly announced their plan to pass the decision-making about the statues to two museums, the Richmond-based Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia and its partner, The Valentine museum of Richmond history.

“Now it will be up to our thoughtful museums, informed by the people of Virginia, to determine the future of these artifacts, including the base of the Lee Monument which has taken on special significance as protest art,” Gov. Northam stated.

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

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What do you do when you don’t want to make a difficult decision?

Let someone else make it.

That’s the tack that outgoing Gov. Ralph S. Northam and Richmond Mayor Levar M. Stoney are taking in regards to the Confederate statues — long-standing symbols of white supremacy and slavery — that have been removed from Richmond’s landscape in the past 18 months.

Capping several months of behind-the-

As he prepares to leave office on Jan. 15, this is an opportunity to finally eliminate any state responsibility for a statue that he stated was designed to celebrate “our country’s tragic division and the side that fought to keep alive the institution of slavery by any means possible.”

Mayor Stoney, whose administration has spent more than a year unsuccessfully determining what to do with at least 10 city-owned Confederate monuments that Please turn to A4

City Council expected to provide $300,000 ‘seed money’ for planned slavery museum in Shockoe Bottom

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

Richmond is poised to pour $300,000 into a new attempt to create a national slavery museum.

Mayor Levar M. Stoney, with support from a City Council majority, has proposed providing the money to establish a foundation to take on development of the museum. The foundation’s leadership likely would include former members of the city’s defunct Slave Trail Commission, including Richmond Delegate Delores L. McQuinn and the Revs. Benjamin P. Campbell and Sylvester T. Turner.

The mayor, who expects City Council to endorse the funding at its next meeting on Monday, Jan. 10, described the $300,000 as “seed money” to get the foundation on its feet in the effort to create the museum near the site of infamous Lumpkin’s Jail, next door to Main Street Station in Shockoe Bottom.

Notably, the foundation would be charged with raising the projected $200 million to $220 million needed to complete and fill the museum.

Mayor Stoney

Mr. Wilayto

Ms. Edwards

The city and state already have set aside about $40 million to support development of projects involving slave history, but the rest would need to come from private sources, city officials have said.

The proposal is a second attempt to create a Virginia hub for education about slavery and enslaved people. Former Virginia Gov. L. Douglas Wilder was unsuccessful in the attempt to develop a $100 million slavery museum in Fredericksburg. That effort folded in 2011.

Despite claims that Richmond’s would be the first such museum, at least six existing museums feature significant exhibits focusing on slavery. The largest is the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington.

Others are the Old Slave Mart in Charleston, S.C., and the Lest We Forget Museum of Slavery in Philadelphia.

Others include the Center for Reconciliation in Providence, R.I., the Whitney Plantation museum in Edgard, La., and the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit, as well as a the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati.

Some of the staunchest advocates for development of a memorial park to the more than 300,000 enslaved people who were bought and sold in the slave markets of Richmond are not thrilled about the museum.

Phil Wilayto and Ana Edwards, who have for more than 17 years led the charge to preserve and protect Shockoe Bottom’s history as the nation’s second large slave market, are concerned Please turn to A4

RPS set to reopen Thursday after weather delay and early run on COVID-19 test kits

By Ronald E. Carrington

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Drivers stranded on Interstate 95 wait for hours Tuesday for icy roadways, accidents and disabled vehicles to be cleared in Carmel Church. Roughly 50 miles of I-95 from Caroline County to Prince William County were shut down Monday until 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, with vehicles stuck overnight on the interstate.

Sen. Kaine, Delegate Aird among thousands of motorists stuck in I-95 catastrophe

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

“I’m frustrated, but not in serious trouble.”

That tweet came from U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine.

He was among the untold thousands of motorists trapped Monday and much of Tuesday on Interstate 95 as accidents and breakdowns during the heavy snowfall and subfreezing temperatures halted traffic in both directions on a 50-mile stretch between Ruther Glen in Caroline County and Dumfries in Prince William County.

Outgoing Petersburg Delegate Lashrecse Aird also was among those trapped as she, her husband, two sons and a dog returned from a trip to New York. Her family was halted in Stafford on Please turn to A4

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Snow play Nicole Lindsay and her 8-year-old daughter, Amira Hill, pause during a snowy walk Tuesday to pet the newest member of the family, Fuzzi, a 2-year-old Bichon Frise.

Amira, a fourth-grader engaged in virtual learning at Richmond’s OverbySheppard Elementary School, wanted to show Fuzzi around the North Side neighborhood. The family was walking in the 2800 block of Wellington St., where the bright sunshine had melted snow from the sidewalks.

As school districts across the country consider postponing reopening following the holiday break or instituting remote instruction because of the new wave of COVID-19 infections, Richmond Public Schools stands fast in promoting vaccinations and testing to keep their doors open for in-person instruction.

Across RPS, mask requirements are returning and distribution of at-home COVID-19 test kits will continue to be distributed to parents, teachers and staff, officials said.

While RPS officials are concerned about the spike of new COVID-19 cases stemming from the highly transmissible

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More than 1,000 at-home COVID-19 test kits were given out in less than three hours Sunday at Henderson Middle School on Old Brook Road in North Side, one of four distribution sites for Richmond Public Schools families. Cars were lined up throughout the neighborhood to pick up the tests. Many people were turned away when the supply ran out.

omicron variant, the district is not hesitating about reopening. Schools were expected to reopen Thursday, Jan. 6, following a holiday break that was extended several days be-

Free COVID-19 testing, vaccines Free community testing for COVID-19 continues.

The Richmond and Henrico County health districts are offering testing at the following locations: • Thursday, Jan. 6, 2 to 6 p.m., Southside Plaza WIC Office, 509 E. Southside Plaza. Eastern Henrico Recreation Center, 1440 N. Laburnum Ave., drive-thru testing.

• Friday, Jan. 7, 1 to 3 p.m., Diversity Thrift, 1407 Sherwood Ave. Pick up at-home antigen test events: • Thursday, Jan. 6, 1 to 3 p.m., Richmond Health Department

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cause of snowy and icy weather conditions.

More than 8,000 at-home test kits were given out Sunday to RPS families, teachers and staff at drive-thru, pick-up events at four schools. The kits were gone before the 4 p.m. closing time, with cars snaked around school parking lots and clogging streets leading to the schools.

“At this point, the administration has everything in place to make sure all RPS schools and faculty are safe,” School Board Chairwoman Cheryl L. Burke, 7th District, told the Free Press on Wednesday, noting her confidence in the Please turn to A4

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Sports

Stories by Fred Jeter

Richmond, meet the Church Hill Academy Phantoms Introductions are long overdue. It’s time for Richmond’s high school basketball fans to meet the Phantoms.

“We’re the best-kept secret in town,” said Tim May, coach of the Church Hill Academy Phantoms.

Wearing red, white and blue uniforms, the Phantoms have been shooting hoops for six seasons under Coach May, a former Huguenot High School standout – Class of 2001 — under the late Coach Bo Jones Sr. This fall and winter, the Phantoms have been the area’s busiest squad, already with a 4-17 record as the new year starts. The record is subpar largely because Coach May has greatly upgraded the team’s schedule to include numerous established public and private schools from around the area and the state.

Many of the defeats have been by razor-thin margins — 5553 to Richmond’s Armstrong High School; 55-52 to Henrico’s Deep Run High School; 50-49 to Douglas Freeman High School, also in Henrico.

Facing huge disadvantages in enrollment, the Phantoms have played King’s Fork High School in Suffolk, Freeman High, L.C. Bird High School in Chesterfield, Armstrong and Deep Run from the public ranks and Fork Union Military, Woodberry Forest, Steward School and Trinity Episcopal School from the private sector.

The Phantoms already have competed in three notable prep events — the 804 Coaches for Change Challenge, Henrico High Holiday Hoops and at Highland Springs.

“It’s not fun losing, but our schedule reflects a bigger picture. The Phantoms are a marketing tool for the school,” Coach May said.

Phantoms Facts: School location: 2010 Carlisle Ave. at the Carlisle Avenue Baptist Church campus in the East End.

James Patterson

Le’Khi Eddins

Enrollment: 28 boys, 22 girls, grades 9 through 12; Church Sunday School classes used as classrooms. School is made up almost entirely of teens from Richmond’s East End and Eastern Henrico County.

Cost: Current students paid no more than a $100 registration fee; in the future, the school plans to go with a sliding scale payment based on family need. There is a waiting list.

Affiliation: Church Hill Academy is under the auspices of Church Hill Activities and Tutoring, or CHAT. Home court: Trinity Family Life Center, 3601 Dill Road in

Quiet in the stands for VUU

Virginia Union University has announced a “No Fans/Spectators Rule” for its upcoming men’s and women’s basketball games at Barco-Stevens Hall.

The rule has been enacted due to COVID-19 concerns and will be in effect until further notice.

Only essential personnel will be allowed in the facility during athletic contests.

Fans can still see the Panthers and the Lady Panthers play from home. The men’s and women’s games will be shown live on the CIAA Network at www.vuusports.com.

Bryce Young

Stetson Bennett

Cardale Jones

Marcus Mariota

Deshaun Watson

Jalen Hurts

All eyes will be on quarterbacks at College Football Playoff National Championship Jan. 10 Since its inception in 2015, the College Football Playoff National Championship has been a shining showcase for quarterbacks.

T h i s s e a s o n ’s grand finale on Monday, Jan. 10, figures Tua Tagovailos to offer more of the same.

The University of Alabama, 13-1, is led by Heisman Trophy winner Bryce Young, a 6-foot sophomore who was born in Philadelphia and grew up in Southern California.

Young has passed for 4,503 yards with 46 touchdowns and five interceptions. He is also a dangerous running threat.

The University of Georgia, 13-1, will counter with its quarterback, 5-foot-11 senior Stetson Bennett from Blackshear, Ga. Bennett has thrown for 2,638 yards with 27 touchdowns and just seven interceptions.

There hasn’t been much need to put the ball in the air. With the exception of the loss to Alabama, most Georgia Bulldogs games have been start-to-finish blowouts.

Here’s a glance in the rear-view mirror of the quarterbacks playing in the national championship before Young and Bennett.

2015 Ohio State 23, Oregon 16: Getting his chance due to injuries, third-string quarterback Cardale Jones led the Ohio State Buckeyes to victory. Jones never starred on the next level but did play for three NFL teams.

Jones’ rival that night was the Oregon Ducks’ Marcus Mariota, a Pacific Islander

from Hawaii who won the 2014 Heisman Trophy and was the second overall NFL draft pick by the Tennessee Titans.

2016 Alabama 45, Clemson 40: Jake Coker was the winning quarterback for Alabama, but Clemson’s Deshaun Watson was sensational, passing for 478 yards.

2017 Clemson 35, Alabama 31: Again, Watson was sensational in a battle with Crimson Tide quarterback Jalen Hurts.

Watson became a first round pick of the NFL Houston Texans. Hurts is now the

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Showdown, Part II T h e 2 0 2 2 C o l l e g e Fo o t b a l l Playoff National Championship pits two Southeastern Conference powerhouses against one another— the University of Alabama and the University of Georgia, located just 220 miles apart.

There will be a revenge factor for Georgia. Alabama defeated the Bulldogs 41-24 on Dec. 4 for the SEC title in Atlanta.

Championship game: Monday, Jan. 10 Time: 8 p.m.

Location: Lucas Oil Stadium, Indianapolis, Ind. – the NFL Indianapolis Colts’ home under a dome.

Broadcast: ESPN TV and radio.

How they got here: In the College Football Playoff semifinals on Dec. 31, Alabama beat Cincinnati, 27-6, in Arlington, Texas, while Georgia topped Michigan 34-11 in Miami Gardens.

starting quarterback for the NFL Philadelphia Eagles.

2018 Alabama 26, Georgia 23: This was the coming out party for Pacific Islander Tua Tagovailoa. “Tua” Justin Fields came off the bench in the second half to spark victory. He became a first round NFL pick and is now a quarterback for the NFL Miami Dolphins.

2019 Clemson 44, Alabama 16: Clemson’s Trevor Lawrence out-duels Tagovailoa and becomes the overall No. 1 NFL draft pick in 2020 by the Jacksonville Jaguars.

2020 Louisiana State 42, Clemson 25: This time Lawrence comes up second best to LSU’s Joe Burrow, the Heisman Trophy winner. Burrow became the NFL’s overall top draft pick by the Cincinnati Bengals in 2020.

2021 Alabama 52, Ohio State 24: Alabama’s Mac Jones and the Buckeyes’ Justin Fields both become 2021 NFL first round draft picks, Jones by the New England Patriots and Fields by the Chicago Bears.

2022 Young is the first Alabama quarterback to win the Heisman Trophy and he’s just warming up. The brilliant signal caller is just 20 and must spend another season in Tuscaloosa, Ala., to proceed to the NFL. 2023 The title game moves to SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, Calif. It would be an upset if Young’s not back for a final curtain call before heading to the NFL.

East Highland Park.

Conference: Virginia Independent Schools Athletic Association (VISAA), Division III. Academics: Coach May reports an overall 3.2 GPA among his players. If a player receives less than a “C” on his report card, he can’t dress for games until grades improve.

Star watch: The Phantoms headliner is 6-foot-4 senior James Patterson, who averages 26 points per game. Already, he has a scholarship offer from NCAA Division I Norfolk State University.

“We’ve never had a player like James,” Coach May said.

Another player drawing college attention is Le’Khi Eddins, a high-rising 6-foot-5 junior.

Looking ahead: Despite the losing record, the Phantoms will play mostly smaller schools similar to themselves during the January/ February stretch run. Coach May is confident his team will qualify for the VISAA playoffs and make a run at a “Phantastic Finish.”

The nickname: Church Hill Academy inherited the name Phantoms from a rec league team that had competed in CHAT’s afterschool program. It is believed to be one of just two Virginia schools with that mascot, joining Hampton’s Phoebus High School.

Church Hill Academy’s nickname isn’t to be confused with The Phantom comic strip, film and video games about a fictitious crime fighter from the fictitious African nation of Bangalla, although that’s kind of cool, too.

2022 is here: Coach May’s squad will play host to Cristo Rey Richmond High School at 5 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 6, and then travel Friday, Jan. 7, to face Collegiate School at 5:45 p.m.

The Phantoms have little time to loosen their laces and kick back. The team could play more than 30 games including postseason action.

The party’s just starting.

Former VCU standouts ‘Bones’ Hyland, Justin Tillman making noise in NBA The Denver Nuggets may have struck gold with their No. 1 draft pick, former Virginia Commonwealth University Rams player Nah’Shon “Bones” Hyland.

The 6-foot-3, 170-pound Wilmington, Del., native is enjoying a promising rookie season with the NBA Western Conference, Northwest Division club.

Following two brilliant seasons at VCU under Coach Mike Rhoades, Hyland was the first round, 26th overall selection in last year’s NBA draft. He left VCU with at least three seasons of eligibility remaining.

Coming off the bench for Denver Coach Michael Malone, Hyland is averaging 8.5 points, 1.8 rebounds and 1.7 assists in about 17 minutes per contest through 24 games.

Justin Tillman He had a high of 24 ‘Bones’ Hyland points (hitting four of five 3-pointers) Dec. 17 in the Nuggets’ game against Atlanta and 16 points (4-for-9 from the distance) Dec. 11 against San Antonio.

On the season, Hyland is hitting 33 percent (38 of 117) from beyond the arc and 90 percent (27 of 30) at the foul line.

Hyland isn’t VCU’s only current NBA performer.

On Dec. 18, former Rams player Justin Tillman signed a 10-day contract with the Atlanta Hawks. The 6-foot-8 native of Detroit went undrafted after averaging 19 points and 10 rebounds as a VCU senior in 2018.

Since then, Tillman has played professionally overseas in South Korea, Israel, Italy and Turkey, and most recently with the College Park Skyhawks, Atlanta’s G-League affiliate.

Tillman had played in the NBA Summer League with Miami and Philadelphia.

Making it to the top Here is the list of former Virginia Commonwealth University players to reach the NBA along with seasons played and teams they represented: • Jesse Dark, 1974-75, New York Knicks • Bernard Harris, 1974-75, Buffalo Braves • Gerald Henderson, 1979-92, Boston Celtics, Seattle SuperSonics, New York Knicks, Philadelphia 76ers, Milwaukee Bucks, Detroit Pistons and Houston Rockets • Edmund Sherod, 1982-83, New York Knicks • Eric Maynor, 2009-14, Oklahoma City Thunder, Portland Trail Blazers, Washington Wizards and Philadelphia 76ers • Larry Sanders, 2010-17, Milwaukee Bucks and Cleveland Cavaliers • Troy Daniels, 2014-20, Houston Rockets, Minnesota Timberwolves, Charlotte Hornets, Memphis Grizzlies, Phoenix Suns, Los Angeles Lakers and Denver Nuggets • Treveon Graham, 2016-20, Atlanta Hawks, Charlotte Hornets, Brooklyn Nets and Minnesota Timberwolves • Briante Weber, 2016-18, Memphis Grizzlies, Miami Heat, Charlotte Hornets, Golden State Warriors and Houston Rockets • Nah’Shon “Bones” Hyland, 2021-present, Denver Nuggets • Justin Tillman, 2021-present, Atlanta Hawks • Marc Jackson played one season for VCU before transferring to Temple University and going on to play in the NBA from 2000 to 2007 with the Golden State Warriors, Minnesota Timberwolves, Philadelphia 76ers, New Jersey Nets and the New Orleans/Oklahoma City Hornets.

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Cityscape

Slices of life and scenes in Richmond

Photos by Sandra Sellars/Richmond Free Press

City utility field technicians miffed about exclusion from city bonuses

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

Field technicians from the Richmond Department of Public Utilities are upset that City Hall failed to include them among the first responders, such as police officers and firefighters, who received pandemic bonuses of up to $3,000 each during the holidays.

DPU technicians address problems with gas, water and sewer service.

“We are first responders,” DPU technicians stated in a collective email sent to the Free Press on Monday. “We meet the fire departments of Richmond, Henrico and Chesterfield on gas leaks and fires.”

In addition, “we enter customers’ homes on a daily basis to turn on gas and water services,” the email continued. “Both utilities are crucial, especially during a pandemic when you need gas to heat water to cleanse your hands.

“We are essential,” the email stated. “While other Richmond employees sat at home when the City of Richmond was closed, we still had to come to work continuously” to deal with service problems.

While office workers were paid to work from home, “we put ourselves at risk, not knowing if we were going into the home of someone exposed to COVID-19.”

Just like the rest of the first responders, the email stated, “we are overworked and understaffed. Yes, members of the Richmond Fire Department and the Richmond Police Department deserved a bonus.

But they gave employees of the Juvenile Justice Department bonuses, but not us, who help keep the City of Richmond safe as well.”

The technicians called on the city to provide answers.

Mayor Levar M. Stoney and Lincoln Saunders, the city’s chief administrative officer, could not be immediately reached for comment.

City Council members raised no questions about the administration’s decision to award bonuses only to certain employees who had worked through the pandemic, including firefighters, police officers, emergency dispatchers and employees of the city Juvenile Detention Center.

When a question was asked about bonuses for other employees who maintained critical services, city officials said only that they hoped to find the money later to provide bonuses to them, but no specifics

A key element of Richmond’s drinking water supply system is undergoing about $54 million in major improvements.

These photos document the construction underway at the historic Byrd Park Reservoir that first went into service 145 years ago to supply water to the city and surrounding counties.

The purpose of the work: To keep the 55 million-gallon storage facility functional.

The city Department of Public Utilities is projecting to spend $60 million to cover all costs, about $7 million more than anticipated when the project was first envisioned four years ago. So far, about $4.7 million has been spent on inspections, planning and design, DPU has reported.

Opened in 1876, the reservoir is located on the east side of Blanton Avenue and is bounded by Grant Street and Police Memorial Way. The project is expected to take four years to complete, according to DPU, and is being done in two phases.

The first phase, which already is underway, involves replacement of a main reservoir supply line and inlet valve to continue to ensure reliable water distribution, DPU has stated. Cost of first phase: About $6.6 million, including $4.77 million for construction and the rest going to other costs, such as overhead and construction management.

The second phase involves installing new aluminum roofs to replace the 1970s concrete roofs that cover the reservoir’s two underground tanks. Total cost of second phase: $47.4 million, which DPU stated is to be shared with Hanover and Henrico counties, which also receive water from the reservoir.

DPU has pledged to schedule the work to ensure the park remains open during the project.

In preparing for construction, some trees were removed, DPU noted, but the department has stated that replacements would be planted after the work is done.

Capitol Square offices to be named for Dr. William Ferguson ‘Fergie’ Reid

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

Dr. William Ferguson “Fergie” Reid, a Richmond surgeon and activist for voting rights, made history in 1967 when he won election to the House of Delegates. He was the first Black person to break through the legislature’s whites-only ranks in more than 76 years.

Now a row of state offices at Capitol Square will bear Dr. Reid’s name as a tribute to his service to state betterment, Gov. Ralph S. Northam has announced,.

The renaming ceremony honoring Dr. Reid and other Black Virginians is scheduled for 12:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 7, at 223 Governor St., in front of the buildings that will bear Dr. Reid’s name. The event, originally scheduled for earlier in the week, was postponed because of the winter storm.

“I’m honored that they are thinking of me,” Dr. Reid said Wednesday from his Los Angeles home. Now 96, he said he would be unable to attend in person.

Reid’s Row will replace the current name, Morson’s Row, for James M. Morson, who developed the three, bowfront Italianate houses in 1853 that were long used as rental property before being acquired by the state.

One of the buildings in Reid’s Row will bear the name of the Townes family, which has served in the Executive Mansion for decades, the governor stated.

Gov. Northam also stated he is renaming the remodeled Ferguson Building

Dr. Reid

on Old 14th Street for Medal of Honor recipient 1st Lt. Ruppert L. Sargent, a Hampton native who died in March 1967 protecting his troops by throwing himself on two enemy hand grenades during the

Vietnam War. The building, a former warehouse, has been remodeled for use as the Capitol Police’s K9 training facility.

Two buildings in Capitol Square have been named for Black historical figures, Richmond civil rights lawyer Oliver White Hill Sr. and Farmville student protest leader Barbara Johns.

A Richmond native, Dr. Reid got involved in voting rights work in 1956 when he helped launch the Richmond Crusade for Voters to increase Black voter registration and participation.

Dr. Reid was motivated, he said, by the results of a 1955 referendum in which Virginia’s mostly white voters overwhelmingly supported closing public schools to avoid integration as the U.S. Supreme Court had ordered in its two Brown v.

Board of Education decisions.

“We realized we needed more voters to make progress,” Dr. Reid said.

The real benefit of the Crusade’s work showed up following the passage of the federal Voting Rights Act of 1965 that ended literacy tests and poll taxes and

spurred voter registration. Newly empowered voters elected Dr. Reid two years later to a Richmond-Henrico seat in the House of Delegates.

Dr. Reid served two terms in the Gen1st Lt. Sargent eral Assembly before being defeated. He said he backed progressive legislation and recalls proudly being a sponsor of the state’s first law to end endemic racial discrimination in the sale and rental of homes.

He later would spend much of his medical career traveling the world as a U.S. State Department physician treating people at embassies in Asia, Africa and South America.

Dr. Reid, who keeps up with current events, said he is concerned that the progress in voting rights is being rolled back in multiple Republican-led states that are making it harder to vote.

He worries now that GOP victories in Virginia in last fall’s elections could lead to fresh attempts to end General Assembly initiatives of recent years that have allowed early voting and broke down other barriers to casting ballots.

He also is worried about Republicans winning the U.S. House of Representatives in the 2022 federal elections. “What happens in 2022 could determine whether we have a dictatorship or remain a democracy,” he said.

Artists Dustin Klein and Alex Criqui, whose projections on the Lee monument gained national attention, receive grant for new works Free Press staff report

Richmond lighting artists Dustin Klein and Alex Criqui drew national attention 18 months ago in projecting the faces of Black thinkers, activists and victims of police violence nightly on the pedestal of the Lee monument on Monument Avenue.

The pair now has been awarded a $670,000 grant to support their initiative to create five similar major light shows this year at the African Burial Ground, Belle Isle and other city sites to highlight neglected, but significant historical, racial and social justice issues.

The award is from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s Monuments Project, which has earmarked $250 million to support public projects that “more completely and accurately represent the multiplicity and complexity of American stories.”

Mr. Klein and Mr. Criqui, operating as the nonprofit Reclaiming the Monument, are at the foundation’s request teaming with The Valentine museum, which will provide archival photographs and manage the grant, according to William J. “Bill” Martin, director of the museum that focuses on Richmond history.

“There are important places all over the city. This project will bring new stories to light and encourage everyone to take a fresh look at our city’s history,” said Mr. Martin, who called it the kind of innovative effort The Valentine is proud to support.

“Richmond’s story is America’s story,” Mr. Martin continued, “and this grant from the Mellon Foundation provides an opportunity to elevate it.”

Mr. Martin said he hopes people will come out to view the temporary works as residents continue “to grapple with

the complicated legacies of our past and how its telling has been used to shape and influence our present and future.”

“It is our hope that by engaging our community with a more complete telling of our history through public art that we will be able to help our city heal and move toward a future rooted in peace, justice and equality,” said Mr. Criqui, who is creative director for Reclaiming the Monument.

Specific details are still being worked out on site locations and dates for the light shows, each of which will be on view for five to seven days.

In the summer of 2020, Reclaiming the Monument used light projections to feature on the Lee monument pedestal the faces of such Black luminaries as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., W.E.B. DuBois and Harriet Tubman, as well as those of victims of police brutality.

Remembering Eumiyah Milton Thompson, left, and Monique Mines-Talley, the parents of 17-year-old Eumiyah Thompson, attend a vigil celebrating the life of their daughter who was shot and killed Dec. 18 while on her front porch of the family’s apartment in Gilpin Court as she was talking with a friend. Her friend was wounded by the gunfire. Eumiyah was a senior at Spartan Academy on West Leigh Street and was expected to graduate in June, her mother said. “That was my baby,” Ms. Mines-Talley said at the vigil held Dec. 27 in Gilpin Court. It was organized by Charles D. Willis, executive director of United Communities Against Crime. Prayers and candles were part of the somber ceremony.

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Special Feature

Foremost wishes for 2022 With the start of 2022, the Richmond Free Press invited select officials to share their foremost wishes for the new year. Here are their responses:

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To be healthy, thriving and secure In 2021, we experienced the painful reality that the COVID-19 pandemic is still with us. More than 390 city residents died from the virus last year, and the impact it had on lives—from job loss among working adults and learning loss among our students, to a deadly spike in gun violence — is still being disproportionally experienced in our most vulnerable communities.

But 2021 also was a year we demonstrated resilience.

We took steps toward recovery and planted seeds in the form of significant investments that will take root and yield a better future for our communities and families. That is why I’m very optimistic for 2022, when these investments will begin to grow into real change that lifts up our residents and enhances the quality of life for all who live, work and play in the city of Richmond.

We’re investing $78 million – more than half of the city’s allotment of American Rescue Plan Act dollars— to rebuild and renovate community centers and expand parks. We’ve set aside $20 million to build affordable housing, and millions more to redevelop public housing, promote health equity and directly address gun violence.

We continue to pursue economic opportunity for our residents—from corporate expansions of existing

Have peace in every aspect of life

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businesses like that of CoStar Group, to new development that promises better jobs, housing, shopping and public amenities in our City Center innovation district (Downtown) and in the Diamond District bordering Scott’s Addition.

This city is my family, so my foremost wish is the same that I imagine all Richmonders have for their families, their neighbors and those they love: To be healthy, thriving and secure.

We do that by getting more Richmonders vaccinated against COVID-19. Only 67 percent of adults have the shot now and we need to bolster our defense in order to protect everyone, especially the sick and elderly.

We do that by continuing our efforts to build trust and cooperation between law enforcement and the communities they serve and protect.

And we do that by supporting economic development that leaves no one behind — lifting up families with jobs and reducing the burden on taxpayers by generating much-needed revenue for city services and priorities.

In short, we act like a family. We come together to support and love and trust each other.

Working together, we will move forward and closer to One Richmond, an inclusive, compassionate and equitable city for all.

Richmond Mayor Levar M. Stoney

Improve Virginia for people of color

Richmond Commonwealth’s Attorney Colette W. McEachin

My wish for the city of Richmond in 2022, and in every year, is peace.

Peace in every person’s mind—so that you can face the challenges and traumas that life brings to all of us and respond in a healthy and productive way.

Peace in every person’s heart—so that when you are hurt or depressed or angry, you know that there are people and resources available to help you address that emotional pain.

Peace in every home—so that children are raised by people who love and protect them and who also model appropriate and positive behavior for them.

Peace in our schools—so that students, faculty and staff can recognize and respond to all the educational and developmental challenges that have been exacerbated by the pandemic and continue to support and educate Richmond’s future workforce and leaders in a safe environment.

Peace in the workplace—so that as co-workers, clients or customers, we do our best to be patient, thoughtful and understanding of those with whom we come in contact.

Peace in every neighborhood—so that children walk to school safely and play in their neighborhood without the fear of fights or gunfire breaking out.

Peace in every gathering of juveniles and adults—so that the dangerous emotions of fear, jealousy, revenge, rage and retaliation can be addressed and resolved without resorting to violence.

Finally, it is said that there can be no peace without justice. The Richmond Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office will continue to protect victims and witnesses; to recommend alternatives to conviction or incarceration where appropriate; and to prosecute in a just and equitable manner at all times.

May you all have a healthy, prosperous and peaceful new year!

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Robert N. Barnette Jr., president of the Virginia State Conference NAACP “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere”— Martin Luther King Jr. ​​My foremost wish is to improve the Commonwealth for Black Virginians and people of color in 2022.

The well-being of Black Virginians should be a concern not only of the Virginia State Conference NAACP, but of all elected officials and all Virginians.

The Virginia NAACP and our units have worked collectively to battle a variety of issues such as the ongoing impact of COVID-19, fighting for the removal of racist statutes, holding elected officials accountable and mobilizing voters through civic engagement.

Our work speaks for itself. In 2021, not only did we register 2,306 new voters, we also recruited more than 16,000 highly engaged volunteers from across the country for our Indirect Relational Voter Turnout program, providing them with training and lists to contact more than 300,000 infrequent registered Black voters in Virginia. Once the lists were sent out, more than 100 students from our NAACP Youth and College division reached out to volunteers to offer support and encouragement.

We also sent roughly 1 million text messages and 500,000 mail pieces, placed more than 100,000 live phone calls and aired radio ads across the state. The Virginia NAACP coordinated our 110 branches, youth councils and college chapters in our largest off-year voter mobilization campaign in 30 years, raising and spending more than $2.5 million resulting in historic Black voter turnout in 2021.

We have made it our mission to ensure justice and demand accountability within the Commonwealth while moving the needle to raise awareness for injustices on a state and local level. It goes without saying that a multigenerational movement is vital to achieve optimum success.

While we have made some progress, there is still more work to be done. We encourage you to join us to take a stand and join in the movement for equality.

Join us at naacpva.org.

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Katina Harris, president of the Richmond Education Association I appreciate the opportunity to express some of our desires and intentions regarding the direction in which the Richmond Education Association, as an organization, will move in 2022.

Now that we have won the ability to enter into collective bargaining with Richmond Public Schools, we will be focusing on resolving issues that have been plaguing educators, education support professionals and students for years. The way that we plan on addressing these issues is securing first contracts for employees of RPS. An additional goal of the REA is to aid and collaborate with RPS regarding employee retention and student growth—socially, emotionally and academically. We have a strong desire for our scholars to compete on a national level and we believe that we can achieve this by focusing on the aforementioned areas.

Recently it has come to the REA’s attention about pending and potential evictions of Richmond residents.

These actions will negatively impact our students both directly and indirectly. We know that we have limited ability to prevent evictions, but we are willing to support any efforts to prevent and/or postpone evictions during the winter months and during the overall pandemic.

In closing, the REA plans to advocate for the full funding of the state Education Department’s Standards of Quality and hold the administration of Gov.-elect Glenn A. Youngkin to some of his campaign promises about raising teacher pay. We will attend the Virginia Education Association’s Lobby Day on Jan. 24 to meet with elected officials.

As we move forward being the light in some very challenging spaces, we have to remember a quote from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.: “Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.”

Peace and progress.

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were taken down, added that “entrusting the future of these monuments and pedestals to two of our most respected institutions is the right thing to do.”

“They will take the time that is necessary to properly engage the public and ensure the thoughtful future uses of these artifacts while we reimagine Monument Avenue, focus on telling our history fully and accurately in places like Shockoe Bottom and lift up residents throughout the city,” he said.

Talks about this approach began after the Lee statue was removed in September, the Free Press was told.

The city had advertised and received 23 bids, most seeking donations of its statues. But as one person involved in the recent talks put it, “There was concern that these statues could end up becoming the basis for a Confederate theme park, and no one wanted that.”

The plan that is being advanced, and which has the full backing of a Richmond City Council that is equally reluctant to make a decision on the statues, calls for the city and the state to keep the items in storage while the museums engage the public and other institutional partners in considering what to do next.

City Council is now rushing to take the first

step to implement it: To introduce and approve an ordinance to accept the title of the state-owned Lee statue before Republican Gov.-elect Glenn A. Youngkin takes office Saturday, Jan. 15.

The city’s governing body also is preparing to pass titles to the Lee statue and the city’s Confederate statues and bases to the Black History Museum, which is to take the lead role but would not have to pay for storage or care until a decision is made.

The city already has spent nearly $2 million to have the Black-owned Team Henry Enterprises contracting firm take down its Confederate statues, and has just awarded a $1.5 million contract to the same firm to take down the remaining pedestals.

The state also paid Team Henry Enterprises to remove the Lee statue and pedestal.

The museums, who are promising robust public engagement and inclusion of those parties that submitted bids to the city for the statues, are being granted up to five years to come up with a solution to the thorny problem of what do with the relics.

While no promises have been made, the museums are considering asking the city for some funding to cover the costs of engaging the public.

Many have noted the irony of having a Black institution leading the process of determining the fate of statues erected by those who only

meant ill to the Black community.

Marland Buckner, interim director of the Black History Museum, is eager to take on the challenge as a way to raise the museum’s profile, particularly as a cultural institution.

“Our institution will take very seriously the responsibility for managing these objects in ways that ensure their origins and purpose are never forgotten, which is the glorification of those who led the fight to enslave African Americans and destroy the Union.

“But we believe with this responsibility also comes an opportunity to deepen our understanding of an essential element of the American story: The expansion of freedom,” he said in a statement.

He pledged there would be “a sustained, reflective and broad-based community engagement process that will inform decisions made about the future of the objects in this collection.”

William J. “Bill” Martin, The Valentine’s director, agreed that public engagement will be a continuing focus, including initiatives to seek public input at festivals and events.

For example, he noted that The Valentine is a partner in a project this year to create light shows in Richmond focusing on racial justice, and he said those shows would provide an opportunity to collect information from the public.

Along with the Lee statue, the Black History Museum is to gain title to the statues and pedestals

of Confederate Gens. J.E.B. Stuart, Stonewell Jackson and Williams Wickham, Confederate President Jefferson Davis and oceanographer and Confederate Navy Commander Matthew Fontaine Maury.

The Black History Museum also would get a copy of a Confederate cannon; a monument to Confederate cavalryman Fitzhugh Lee; a statue of slavery and Jim Crow advocate Joseph Bryan; a statue to a Richmond Confederate unit; and a statue to Confederate soldiers and sailors that was on Libby Hill. As yet, the list does not include the statue that is a grave maker of Confederate Gen. A.P. Hill, located at Hermitage Road and Laburnum Avenue.

“These are not just huge objects in terms of their physical presence,” said Greg Werkheiser, a Richmond-based lawyer representing the Black History Museum and an adviser to The Valentine. “They are huge objects in terms of the public’s imagination.”

A specialist in civic engagement and laws pertaining to cultural heritage, Mr. Werkheiser called it significant that the transfer is being made without any strings attached.

“What’s really great about this is there are no geographic or strategic limitations placed on what can happen,” he said. “I can tell you honestly, that both museums are entering this situation with completely open minds.”

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that focus on a hugely expensive museum will sop up all the money to develop a 9-acre memorial to the enslaved that they have pushed for.

Mr. Wilayto believes that the renovated, but now largely unused train shed at the Main Street Station could more easily and less expensively become the museum’s home and leave resources for the memorial campus development.

City Hall appears to be struggling to move ahead to create the Enslaved African Heritage Campus, which the mayor in 2020 indicated was being fast-tracked.

City Council in September 2020 approved the mayor’s plan to provide $1.7 million to kick start the development of that project, which is to include the museum and Lumpkin’s Jail areas west of the train tracks.

The campus also is to include the African Burial Ground north of Broad Street that was the nation’s first municipal burial

ground for free and enslaved people, and several blocks east of the train tracks between Broad, 17th and Franklin streets that nestle the historic, but largely vacant Farmers’ Market.

So far, none of the $1.7 million has been spent, according to Sharon Ebert, the city’s deputy chief administrative officer for economic and community development. Nor has the city acquired any of the private property that is included in a city-operated parking lot located between the train tracks, at Broad and 17th streets, a key element of the expanded campus, Ms. Ebert stated in an email response to a Free Press query.

The city also has “not contacted or advanced the purchase” of the former Loving’s Produce distribution building, she stated, though that had been listed as a potential site for a new parking deck for the heritage campus and the nearby businesses.

According to Ms. Ebert, the city’s next step for the campus’ creation would be to spend up

Free COVID-19 vaccines Continued from A1

Cary Street Clinic, 400 E. Cary St. • Friday, Jan. 7, 1 to 3 p.m., Diversity Thrift, 1407 Sherwood Ave. Call the Richmond and Henrico COVID-19 Hotline at (804) 205-3501 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday for more information on testing sites, or go online at vax.rchd.com.

The Virginia Department of Health also has a list of COVID19 testing locations around the state at www.vdh.virginia.gov/ coronavirus/covid-19-testing/covid-19-testing-sites/.

Want a COVID-19 vaccine or booster shot?

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

• Thursday, Jan. 6, 1 to 3 p.m. – Richmond Health Department Cary Street Clinic, 400 E. Cary St., Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson; 4 to 7 p.m. – Linwood Holton Elementary School, 1600 W. Laburnum Ave., Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson.

• Tuesday, Jan. 11, 4 to 7 p.m.—Overby-Sheppard Elementary School, 2300 1st Ave., Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson.

• Thursday, Jan. 13, 4 to 7 p.m. – Blackwell Elementary School, 300 E. 15th St., Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson.

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

Vaccinations and booster shots are available for all eligible of any age on a walk-in basis. No appointment is needed. However, people may schedule an appointment online at vaccinate.virginia. gov or vax.rchd.com, or by calling (804) 205-3501 or (877) VAXIN-VA (1-877-829-4682).

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

The Chesterfield County Health District is offering vaccines and booster shots at the following location: Community Vaccination Center, Rockwood Shopping Center (in the former Big Lots store), 10161 Hull Street Road, Midlothian, 10 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Monday through Saturday.

Walk-ins are welcome, but appointments are encouraged by going to www.vaccines.gov or call (877) VAX-IN-VA. Those who are getting a booster shot should bring their vaccine card to confirm date and type of vaccine received.

A total of 10,728 new cases of COVID-19 were reported statewide Wednesday for the 24-hour period, contributing to an overall state total of 1,186,887 cases of coronavirus since the pandemic’s outbreak. As of Wednesday, there are 43,449 hospitalizations and 15,631 deaths statewide. The state’s sevenday positivity rate reached 32 percent on Wednesday. Last week, the positivity rate was 17.4 percent.

On Wednesday, state health officials reported that 67.8 percent of the state’s population has been fully vaccinated, while 77.6 percent of the people have received at least one dose of the vaccine.

State data also show that roughly 2.1 million people in Virginia have received booster shots or third doses of the vaccine.

Among those ages 5 to 11 in Virginia, 233,971 children have received their first shots, accounting for 32.4 percent of the eligible age group in the state, while 166,028 children are fully vaccinated.

As of Wednesday, fewer than 76,000 cases, 520 hospitalizations and seven deaths have been recorded among children.

State data also show that African-Americans comprised 22.6 percent of cases statewide and 24 percent of deaths for which ethnic and racial data is available, while Latinos made up 13.1 percent of cases and 5.7 percent of deaths.

As of Wednesday, Richmond reported a total of 31,873 positive cases, 977 hospitalizations and 391 deaths; Henrico County, 45,747 cases, 1,304 hospitalizations and 750 deaths; Chesterfield County, 51,358 cases, 1,262 hospitalizations and 609 deaths; and Hanover County, 15,378 cases, 403 hospitalizations and 208 deaths.

to $2.7 million to pay a firm to design the heritage campus. A request for proposals is to be released in the coming months to begin the process, she stated.

The funding would come from the $1.7 million, plus an additional $1 million City

Council also is poised to approve at its next meeting.

The decision appears to have been made without any consultation with Mr. Wilayto, Ms. Edwards or any other advocates or organizations. They created the vision for the campus and

persisted for more than a decade to secure the support of the mayor and council.

“We are committed to a Shockoe heritage campus,” Mayor Stoney has insisted in rejecting concerns. That includes the full campus as well

as the museum, he said.

“A heritage and interpretive center or museum will give us the opportunity to create a space that serves as a site of conscious memorialization, reflection, education and atonement,” he said.

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the final 90-mile leg of the journey and spent more than 20 hours waiting to get clear.

Sen. Kaine posted his tweet just after 10:30 a.m. Tuesday after being stuck overnight somewhere along the clogged interstate. He apparently was able to start driving again sometime after 1 p.m.

Tuesday, but slowly. More than three hours later, he issued his final tweet of the saga: “Very happy to be back in the Capital and working on voting rights legislation after 27 hours on the road.”

Sen. Kaine stated in a separate tweet that he left Richmond at 1 p.m. Monday to make the two-hour drive to Washington, only to get halted along with thousands of fellow travelers, who like him, prayed their gas wouldn’t run out and their heaters would stay on as the temperature dropped.

The senator offered praise for a Connecticut family heading home from Florida who handed out oranges during the night to fellow drivers stuck on the highway that had become a gargantuan parking lot.

In other places, helpful truckers were hailed as heroes for giving out blankets

and food to the stranded motorists.

Delegate Aird was among those who were critical of the situation and believed more could have been done by state officials. She tweeted that her family made it through thanks to “gas-station snacks and winter coats.” She said that a walk to a gas station at an exit that was close by made the difference.

“Nearly 32 hours later, we have made it home safely after the nightmare,” she said on social media.

The trouble began when a tractor-trailer jackknifed and blocked three lanes of the interstate. Other wrecks on both sides of the highway also forced traffic to a halt. With traffic backed up and shoulders impassable, the falling snow and other conditions made getting wreckers and other equipment in almost impossible, officials said.

Virginia Department of Transportation officials offered a general apology and pledged to thoroughly review the blockade of one of the nation’s busiest highways.

However, officials noted that the snow and icy conditions made it just as much a nightmare for crews trying to clear the roadways as it was for motorists.

Between 6 and 11 inches of snow fell

on the interstate and onto Washington, D.C. Adding to the trouble, temperatures dropped below 20 degrees during the night, turning the slushy material of daytime into several inches of treacherous ice.

The governor’s office said that it was not possible to get personnel, including the National Guard, on scene to distribute food, blankets and other aid. Officials said the National Guard takes at least a day to mobilize when called up in an emergency.

Based on the distance and the heavy travel, more than 10,000 cars, trucks, buses and vans are believed to have been stuck on the road.

VDOT reported crews worked through Monday night and were still at it early Tuesday afternoon trying to remove broken down vehicles. Traffic began moving slowly after at least one lane was open in both directions, but VDOT did not declare I-95 fully open in both directions until 8:30 p.m. Tuesday.

VDOT noted that ordinary precautions, such as pretreating roads to prevent ice build-up, could not take place because the winter storm began with rain that would have washed away the road chemicals.

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school system’s ability to reopen safely.

“The additional tool is having testing kits available across the district. That data will be registered, via QR code, and accessible

by RPS’ medical staff.”

Ms. Burke continued: “Every air filter and purifier in every school will be changed, as well as all sanitizing protocols will be strictly followed for daily functioning and health safety.

“We are doing everything possible for our students to stay in school. The district continues to have meals and mask requirements, mental health and teacher support in place,” she said.

The RPS administration wants to avoid returning to virtual learning. City schools were shut down from March 2020 until fall 2021 because of the pandemic. Students, parents, teachers and others had to adjust to remote learning, which state education officials, produced a huge learning gap for students that schools systems now are working to bridge.

“I think it would be really damaging to our students to go fully virtual again,” Superintendent Jason Kamras said.

RPS reported this week that 300 staff members are out for the moment because of COVID-19. That number includes 250 who apparently tested positive for the coronavirus and 50 on leave to care for a relative with COVID-19 or for some other family reason.

School Board Vice Chairman Jonathan M. Young, 4th District, supports using central office employees to fill in for absent administrators at school buildings, as well as keeping stable classroom environments.

“A lot of people in central office have been formally trained as educators and have previous experience in the classroom,” Mr. Young said of RPS’ employees as the district tries to maintain a semblance of business as usual. “The good news for those testing positive, the omicron symptoms are not as severe as the delta variant,” he said.

In a sign of support for the Kamras administration and the School Board, the local

teachers’ association issued a statement: “The Richmond Education Association stands with Richmond Public Schools staff, students and families in their concern for protecting the health and safety in our schools with the presence of the Omicron variant and record-setting COVID-19 infections in our city, state and across the country,” REA President Katina Harris said in a statement released to the media.

“One thing that we would like to see and strongly request is for RPS to issue specific guidance regarding the percentages of instructional staff that need to be present to consider work sites/schools operational and safe for students and staff,” Ms. Harris stated.

On Sunday, RPS, in partnership with the Virginia Department of Health, held a drive-up distribution of 8,000 at-home rapid COVID-19 tests from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Henderson and Martin Luther King Jr. middle schools and Broad Rock and Cardinal elementary schools.

Traffic was snarled as blocks upon blocks of drivers waited to get the test kits for their children.

“I am not surprised,” Mr. Kamras said, when asked about the community response.

The kits each contained two tests, but officials ran out of kits long before the closing time. Parents were left in line and empty handed.

According to the RPS administration, an additional 25,000 test kits were to be delivered by week’s end to accommodate the demand. The kits are to go to individual schools for distribution to families and staff, officials said. Mr. Kamras said more KN95 masks also will be available.

“The additional tests will be used for anyone who may be symptomatic at school and who needs to be tested for the “Test to Stay” program,” Mr. Kamras said.

Under the program, students and staff who test positive for the virus and go into quarantine will be able to get test kits from the school to take home and test themselves every night to determine whether they can return to school, he said.

Each night, the person will take the test via a telehealth portal. Each test kit has a

QR code, which can be registered using a cellphone. A nurse or health professional will walk the person through the testing and log the person’s result.

RPS medical staff will have access to the person’s data for review and determination of the next step – either a return to school or continued home quarantine.

Anyone who has had close contact with the person who tested positive can return to school by testing negative.

New guidelines from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have shortened the quarantine time to five days for anyone who tests positive, as long as they are asymptomatic and wear a mask for an additional five days.

According to the RPS administration, the new testing program, the KN95 masks and the CDC guidelines are the most important tools in helping to keep school doors open and students in classrooms.

RPS is continuing its 100 percent masking policy, even as the School Board voted to rescind the vaccination mandate in December.

“Any student isolated or quarantined, due to testing positive for COVID, will be able to continue to learn online,” Mr. Kamras said.

“We have seen a spike in the omicron virus spreading,” said School Board member Nicole Jones, 9th District, who represents one of South Side’s largely Black and Latino areas. “However, it is not any less safe than it was before we went into the holiday break.”

She said RPS’ administrative team has done a good job getting out front with preventative measures.

“The district’s communication with the community, especially Spanish-speaking parents, has been an extraordinary mitigation strategy,” she said. “What is safe today may not be safe tomorrow.”

More RPS reopening and COVID-19 response information will be presented at the School Board’s next meeting at 6 p.m.

Monday, Jan. 10, at Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School, 1000 Mosby St. Masks are required.

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Herring sues Town of Windsor, alleging discriminatory policing Free Press wire report

The police department in Windsor, a small southeastern Virginia town located in Isle of Wight County, has operated in a way that led to discrimination against African-Americans and violated their constitutional rights, Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring alleged in a lawsuit filed last week.

The suit, filed Dec. 30 against the town of Windsor, came after an investigation by Mr. Herring’s office into its police department. The probe was prompted by a December 2020 traffic stop involving two Windsor Police Department officers and Army Lt. Caron Nazario, who is Black and Latino.

The traffic stop, captured on video, showed the officers drawing their guns, pointing them at Lt. Nazario, who was in uniform, and using a slang term to suggest he was facing execution before pepper-spraying him and knocking him to the ground.

The video drew nationwide attention and outrage when it came to light months after the traffic stop, when Lt. Nazario Lt. Nazario sued the two officers, at least one of whom has since been fired.

“While our investigation was spurred by the egregious treatment against Lt. Nazario that we all saw in bodycam footage, we discovered that this incident was indicative of much larger problems within the department,” Mr. Herring stated in a news release. “Our months-long investigation uncovered huge disparities in enforcement against African-American drivers, and a troubling lack of policies and procedures to prevent discriminatory or unconstitutional policing.”

The town responded with a lengthy statement that broadly refuted the allegations and called Mr. Herring’s decision to file the suit just weeks before he leaves office “clearly political.”

Mr. Herring, a Democrat, was defeated in his bid for re-elected

by Republican Jason Miyares in November. Mr. Miyares, an attorney who also represented Virginia Beach as a member of the House of Delegates, will be sworn in Jan. 15.

According to Mr. Herring’s office, the investigation found that while Black people make up about 22 percent of Windsor’s population, they accounted for about 42 percent of the department’s traffic stops between July 1, 2020, and Sept. 30, 2021. The Windsor Police Department also searched more vehicles driven

by Black motorists than white drivers, the complaint stated.

Based on those disproportionate stops and searches, the department is “performing its law enforcement activities in a discriminatory and biased manner,” the complaint stated.

The investigation also found a discrepancy in the data on traffic stops and citations reported to the Windsor Town Council versus the Virginia State Police, the lawsuit stated.

“In all instances, the numbers reported to the Commonwealth were lower than those shared with town council, and the discrepancy has not yet been explained,” according to the news release.

Windsor’s statement said the complaint cites “questionable data on the quantity and nature of traffic stops and searches,” without providing more specifics. It also said that the town’s seven-member police department has taken steps this year to increase training and accountability and that those “advancements” had been discussed with Mr. Herring’s office as recently as Dec. 10.

The lawsuit asks the court to enjoin the town and its employees from engaging in discriminatory law enforcement practices. It also asks that the town be required to hire, at its own expense, an independent monitor to ensure it is complying with state and federal law. It further asks for a $50,000 civil penalty for each violation of the Virginia Human Rights Act. Mr. Herring’s lawsuit was filed in Isle of Wight County Circuit Court, where Windsor is located. The town, with a population of about 3,000, is about 70 miles southeast of Richmond.

Mr. Herring’s office said the lawsuit marked the first enforcement action against a law enforcement agency under a new state law empowering the attorney general to file suit to stop systemic violations of Virginians’ civil rights.

Nikole Hannah-Jones: ‘We’ve been taught the history of a country that does not exist’

By Aaron Morrison The Associated Press

NEW YORK Following a year of professional milestones born of her work on America’s history of slavery, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones said she is clear-eyed about her mission to force a reckoning around the nation’s selfimage.

The New York Times Magazine writer began 2021 in a protracted tenure fight with her alma mater, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill — the dispute ended when she announced in July that she’d take her talents to a Howard University, a historically Black university in Washington — and closed 2021 as a national best-selling author.

“I’ve gone from being just a journalist to becoming some sort of symbol for people who either love me and my work or revile me and my work,” she said.

Ms. Ms. Hannah-Jones recently spoke to The Associated Press in an exclusive interview about the ongoing controversy over “The 1619 Project,” a groundbreaking collection of essays on race that first appeared in a special issue of The New York Times Magazine in 2019 during the 400th anniversary of the first enslaved Africans brought to America in Virginia.

Now in book form, the project has become a touchstone for America’s reckoning over slavery and the reverberations for Black Americans.

“The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story,” and “Born on the Water,” a picture storybook collaboration with co-writer Renée Watson and illustrator Nikkolas Smith, each have spent consecutive weeks atop the Times bestseller list since their Nov. 16 release. A TV documentary on the work is due out later this year.

Still, Ms. Hannah-Jones said the backlash to her work is evidence that the United States is approaching a make-orbreak crossroads on its global standing as a democracy.

“I think that we are in a very frightening time,” she said in the interview at AP’s New York City headquarters.

“People who are much, much smarter than me, who have studied this much, much longer than I have are ringing the

alarm,” Ms. Hannah-Jones said. “I think we have to ask ourselves … the narrators, the storytellers, the journalists: Are we ringing the alarm in the right way? Are we doing our jobs to try to uphold our democracy?”

The interview has been edited for length and clarity.

AP: If anything, what did 2021 teach you about where we are in our country currently when it comes to racial justice and our reckoning with history?

Ms. Hannah-Jones: The year, to me, is just reflective of what I’ve always understood about t h i s c o u n t r y.

And that is that steps forward, steps toward racial progress, are always met with an intensive backlash. That we are a society that willfully does not want Ms. Hannah-Jones to deal with the anti-Blackness that is at the core of so many of our institutions and really our society itself.

AP: Can you point to any progress in how the discourse has developed or evolved?

Ms. Hannah-Jones: Certainly the fact that very powerful people are so concerned about a work of journalism called “The 1619 Project” that they would seek to discredit it, that they would seek to censor it, that they would seek to ban it from being taught, does speak to the fact that there are millions of Americans who want a more honest accounting of our history, who want to better understand the country that we’re in, who are open to new narratives.

AP: Do you think this country is poised to make any progress on issues of racial justice, and especially around education?

Ms. Hannah-Jones: Many in mainstream media got caught up in the Republican propaganda campaign, which tried to conflate the teaching of a more accurate history, the teaching of structural racism, with trying to make white children feel badly about themselves or guilty. And so

much of the coverage was driven by that. … I hope that there’s going to be some serious examination of the role that we as media played (in) really putting forth and legitimizing what was a propaganda campaign.

AP: “The 1619 Project” is now a book.

For people who don’t understand, how is it different from what was published in The New York Times Magazine?

Ms. Hannah-Jones: We all know that there has been a tremendous amount of scrutiny of “The 1619 Project.” … I think those who had questions can now go and actually see the source material, can see the historiography that undergirds the work.

For anyone who comes to it with an open mind, it is going to be deeply surprising.

They’re going to learn so much about both the history of their country, but also the history that shapes so much of modern American life.

AP: Some people would say that this is all an agenda-driven piece of work.

Ms. Hannah-Jones: And they’d be right.

AP: Why are they right?

Ms. Hannah-Jones: Because it is. The agenda is to force a reckoning with who we are as a country. The agenda is to take the story of Black Americans in slavery, from being an asterisk, to being marginal to being central to how we understand our country. When people say that, though, I know that they’re saying it in disparaging ways. I’m just being honest about the nature of this work. … We’ve been taught the history of a country that does not exist. We’ve been taught the history of a country that renders us incapable of understanding how we get an insurrection in the greatest democracy on Jan. 6.

AP: What issues do you see as dominating our politics in 2022?

Ms. Hannah-Jones: I try to never predict the future. And I’m also not a political reporter. … We, as Americans, are going to be severely tested in the next year or two to decide what are we willing to sacrifice to be the country that we believe that we are. And whose rights do we hold as fundamental in this country? And are all Americans worthy of having those same rights? I don’t think we know the answer to that. But I think what is important for us to know is we decide.

Democratic AGs continue fight seeking recognition of ERA Free Press wire report

Three Democratic attorneys general on Monday sought to persuade a federal appeals court to revive a lawsuit to force the federal government to recognize Virginia’s 2020 vote to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment and add it to the Constitution.

Virginia Attorney General Mark R. Herring, Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford and Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul argued in court papers that a district court’s dismissal of the case must be reversed to vindicate their states’ “sovereign prerogative to ratify amendments that bring our foundational document in line with our Nation’s values.”

The attorneys general initially brought the lawsuit in January 2020, days after Virginia’s legislature voted to make the Commonwealth the critical 38th state to ratify the ERA. The vote came after years of efforts by advocates who argued the amendment would guarantee women equal rights under the law.

Constitutional amendments must be ratified by three-quarters of the states, or 38. But,

In March 2021, a federal district court judge granted a request by the Trump administration and a group of Republican attorneys general to dismiss the lawsuit.

U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras said Nevada’s, Illinois’ and Virginia’s motives were “laudable” but they came too late. Judge ContreMr. Herring Mr. Ford Mr. Raoul ras, an appointee of former President complicating the matter, Congress enacted a Obama, also said the archivist’s publication and ratification deadline for the ERA that passed certification of an amendment are “formalities decades ago. with no legal effect” so the archivist’s failure After Virginia’s ratification, the Trump Justice to do that doesn’t cause harm and there’s no Department issued a legal memo concluding that standing for the states to sue. because the deadline had expired, it was too late In Monday’s brief, filed in the U.S. Court of for states to ratify. The only option for support- Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, ers was to begin the process all over again in the states argue that the archivist’s refusal has Congress, the department said at the time. injured their interest in preserving their role in The National Archives, which certifies the the amendment process laid out in the Constituratification of constitutional amendments, said tion. And they say the deadline placed in the it would abide by that opinion “unless otherwise proposing clause of the ERA doesn’t invalidate directed by a final court order.” their ratifications “because Congress lacks auNevada and Illinois, which were the 36th thority to impose a timeline for ratification in and 37th states to ratify the amendment, then this manner.” joined Virginia in filing suit.

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states and any attempt to prevent its inclusion in the Constitution is without basis in law,” Mr. Herring said in a statement. “The Equal Rights Amendment will finally ensure true equality in our nation’s foundational document and correct an injustice of historic proportions.”

The ERA initially was proposed in Congress in 1923 and passed in 1972. Its first section reads: “Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.”

Advocates say the measure would enshrine equality for women in the U.S. Constitution, offering stronger protections in sex discrimination cases. They also argue the ERA would give Congress firmer ground to pass antidiscrimination laws.

Opponents warn it would erode commonsense protections for women, such as workplace accommodations during pregnancy. They also worry it could be used by abortion-rights supporters to quash abortion restrictions on the grounds they discriminate against women.

Monday’s opening brief came after the states filed a short notice in May 2021 that they planned to appeal.

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NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC OF APPLICATION BY VIRGINIA ELECTRIC AND POWER COMPANY D/B/A DOMINION ENERGY VIRGINIA FOR APPROVAL OF COASTAL VIRGINIA OFFSHORE WIND PROJECT, ASSOCIATED INTERCONNECTION AND TRANSMISSION FACILITIES, AND RIDER OSW CASE NO. PUR-2021-00142

• Virginia Electric and Power Company d/b/a Dominion Energy

Virginia (“Dominion”) has submitted an application for approval of the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind Commercial Project (“CVOW Project”) to be located in a federal lease area off the coast of Virginia Beach. Dominion also seeks approval and certification of electric interconnection and transmission facilities, comprising transmission facilities required to interconnect the CVOW Project to the existing transmission system.

• Dominion further requests approval of Rider OSW to recover

the costs of the CVOW Project and related interconnection and transmission facilities with a revenue requirement of $78,702,000 over the rate year be ginning September 1, 2022, and concluding August 31, 2023. According to Dominion, this amount would increase a typical residential customer’s bill using 1,000 kilowatt hours of electricity per month by $1.45.

• The State Corporation Commission will hold a telephonic hearing in this case on May 16, 2022, at 10 a.m., for the receipt of public witness testimony.

• An evidentiary hearing will be held on May 17, 2022, at 9 a.m.,

either in the Commission’s second floor courtroom located in the Tyler Building, 1300 East Main Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219, or by electronic means. Further details on this hearing will be provided by subsequent Commission Order.

• Further information about this case is available on the SCC website at: scc.virginia.gov/pages/Case-Information.

The Virginia Clean Economy Act (“VCEA”), became effective on July 1, 2020. Among other things, the VCEA declares “[i]n order to meet the Commonwealth’s clean energy goals, prior to December 31, 2034, the construction or purchase by a public utility of one or more offshore wind generation facilities located off the Commonwealth’s Atlantic shoreline or in federal waters and interconnected directly into the Commonwealth, with an aggregate capacity of up to 5,200 megawatts, is in the public interest…” in new Code § 56-585.1:11.

On November 5, 2021, Virginia Electric and Power Company d/b/a Dominion Energy Virginia (“Dominion” or “Company”) filed with the State Corporation Commission (“Commission”) an application for approval and certification of an offshore wind generation project, called the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind Commercial Project (“CVOW” or “CVOW Project”), and for approval of a rate adjustment clause, designated Rider Offshore Wind (“Rider OSW”), pursuant to §§ 56-585.1:11; 56-46.1, 56-265.1 et seq., and 56-585.1 A 6 of the Code (“Application”).

The Application requests the Commission grant: (i) Approval, as required, of the CVOW Project, to be located in a federal lease area beginning approximately 27 statute miles (approximately 24 nautical miles) off the coast of Virginia Beach, Virginia (“Lease Area”) and related power export facilities; (ii) Approval and certification of electric interconnection and transmission facilities, comprising transmission facilities required to interconnect CVOW with the existing transmission system (“Virginia Facilities”); (iii) Approval of Rider OSW, to recover costs incurred to construct, own, and operate the offshore wind generation facilities and related interconnection and transmission facilities that compose the CVOW Project; and (iv) Approval of a Foreign Currency Risk Mitigation Plan.

CVOW Project The Application states that the CVOW Project encompasses offshore wind generation facilities consisting of 176 14.7 megawatt (“MW”) wind turbine generators located in the Lease Area as well as related offshore export facilities, which will transport the generated electricity onshore to the Cable Landing Location at the State Military Reservation (“SMR”) in the City of Virginia Beach, Virginia, then to the Harpers Switching Station at Naval Air Station Oceana (“NAS Oceana”), which will become the point of interconnection to the PJM Interconnection, L.L.C. transmission system after construction, and finally terminating at the Company’s existing Fentress Substation.

Dominion states the CVOW Project is expected to provide approximately 9,500 gigawatt-hours of carbon-free energy per year. The total cost of the CVOW Project is expected to be approximately $9.8 billion, including an estimated conceptual cost of $1,148.5 million for the onshore Virginia Facilities 2021 dollars).

Virginia Facilities According to the Application, in order to interconnect the proposed CVOW Project and to maintain the structural integrity and reliability of the transmission system in compliance with mandatory North American Electric Reliability Corporation Reliability Standards, Dominion requests approval and certification of the following Virginia Facilities in the Cities of Virginia Beach and Chesapeake, Virginia, with a desired inservice target date of July 31, 2025: • Offshore Export Circuits: Install nine 230 kilovolt (“kV”) submarine export circuits, which begin approximately 3.0 miles offshore at the Virginia jurisdictional line demarcating state-owned submerged lands and extend to an onshore Cable Landing Location on SMR in the City of Virginia Beach; • Onshore Export Circuits: At the onshore Cable Landing Location on SMR, the Offshore Export Circuits will transition to nine underground 230 kV Onshore Export Circuits, which will extend underground approximately 4.4 miles to the proposed Harpers Switching Station located on NAS Oceana property in Virginia; • Harpers Switching Station: Construct a switching station on a site located along Harpers Road at NAS Oceana, which will transition the nine Onshore Export Circuits to three Overhead Transmission Circuits. The proposed arrangement will include multiple circuit breakers, fixed and variable reactor banks, static synchronous compensators, and associated facilities; • Overhead Transmission Circuits: Install three new overhead 230 kV transmission circuits, each with a rating of approximately 1,500 megavolt amperes (“MVA”), along the same corridor extending approximately 14.2 miles between the Harpers Switching Station and the Company’s existing Fentress Substation and utilizing a combination of new, existing and expanded right-of-way in the Cities of Virginia Beach and Chesapeake; • Line #271 Partial Rebuild: Wreck and rebuild approximately 6.1 miles of the Company’s existing approximately 7.1-mile 230 kV overhead Landstown-Pocaty Line #271, which also supports idle 115 kV Line #I-74. With a few exceptions discussed in the Transmission Appendix of the Application, the Company will wreck the existing double circuit lattice structures for Lines #271/#I-74 and replace them with (i) new double circuit monopole structures to carry Line #271 and one Overhead Transmission Circuit, and (ii) either new single circuit or double circuit monopole structures to carry the two remaining Overhead Transmission Circuits. The Line #271 Partial Rebuild will rebuild COR-TEN® towers that have been identified for replacement and remove idle Line #I-74; • Line #2240 Rebuild: Wreck and rebuild the entire approximately 1.9 miles of the Company’s existing 230 kV overhead Fentress-Pocaty Line #2240, which also supports idle 115 kV Line #I-74, where all three Overhead Transmission Circuits will be collocated on structures within a 40-foot expanded right-of-way (from the existing

120-footwide right-of-way to an expanded 160-foot right-of-way). The Line #2240 Partial Rebuild will rebuild COR-TEN® towers that have been identified for replacement and remove idle Line #I-74; and • Fentress Substation Expansion: Expand the Company’s existing 500-230 kV Fentress Substation in Chesapeake, Virginia. The proposed arrangement will expand the existing 500 kV yard, install three new 230 kV line terminals, uprate the existing 230 kV Line #2240 terminal to 4000A, and perform related work to expand the Fentress Substation entirely within Company-owned property.

Based on conceptual design, two structures (Structures #2128/1 and #2128/2) will be removed and replaced with four new structures (Structures #2128/1, #2128/1 A, #2128/ lB, and #2128/2), all entirely within existing right-of-way or on Company-owned property. Additionally, the Company proposes to remove three 500 kV structures (Structures #588/254, #588/255, and #588/256) and replace with two new 500 kV structures (Structures #588/254 and #588/255). Proposed Structure #588/255 is a backbone structure and will be located inside Fentress Substation, while proposed Structure #588/254 will be in existing right of way to the west of Fentress Substation.

Rider OSW Pursuant to Code § 56-585.1 A 6, Dominion seeks approval to recover the costs of the CVOW Project and the related distribution and transmission facilities through proposed Rider OSW. Dominion asks the Commission to approve Rider OSW for the initial rate year beginning September 1, 2022, and ending August 31, 2023 (“Rate Year”), to recover a total revenue requirement of $78,702,000. Dominion calculated this revenue requirement using a rate of return on common equity of 9.2%, which was approved in Commission Case No. PUR-2019-00050 and is subject to update. Further details on Rider OSW are available in the Application.

If the proposed Rider OSW for the Rate Year is approved, the impact on customer bills would depend on the customer’s rate schedule and usage. According to Dominion, implementation of its proposed Rider OSW on September 1, 2022, would increase the bill of a residential customer using 1,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity per month by approximately $1.45.

Foreign Currency Risk Mitigation Plan To help minimize risks, Dominion intends to execute a foreign currency hedging plan, subject to the Commission finding the plan to be reasonable and prudent. Specifically, the Company states that it intends to enter into financial hedges of foreign currency exposure via forward swaps executed shortly after Commission approval of the Foreign Currency Risk Mitigation Plan, unless market conditions dictate otherwise.

Description of Route Cable Landing to Harpers Proposed Route – Underground The submarine Offshore Export Circuits would come ashore at a site referred to as the Cable Landing Location within the SMR in Virginia Beach. At this location, the Offshore Export Circuits would connect to the Onshore Export Circuits in a series of buried vaults. The Onshore Export Circuits would then be installed underground from the Cable Landing Location to the proposed site for the Harpers Switching Station on the north side of Harpers Road within NAS Oceana. This route, referred to as the Cable Landing to Harpers Proposed Route, would measure approximately 4.4 miles in length.

Upon exiting the Cable Landing Location, the route would head west/southwest for about 0.9 mile to General Booth Boulevard, crossing the SMR. This segment would include a trenchless crossing of Lake Christine using horizontal directional drilling (“HDD”). The route would then head west/northwest for approximately 1.4 miles, of which about 0.6 mile would be adjacent to Bells Road. This segment would include an HDD crossing of Owl Creek and would enter NAS Oceana near Bells Road. The route would then head south for 1.1 miles along the east side of Oceana Boulevard. At the intersection of Oceana Boulevard and Harpers Road, the Cable Landing to Harpers Proposed Route would head west for 1.0 mile along the north side of Harpers Road, terminating at the Harpers Switching Station site.

Harpers to Fentress Proposed Route 1 – Overhead Harpers to Fentress Proposed Route 1 would require an overhead installation of the three 230 kV transmission circuits between the Harpers Switching Station site in Virginia Beach and Dominion’s existing Fentress Substation in Chesapeake. The route would measure approximately 14.2 miles in total length.

After exiting the switching station, the route would head southwest for about 2.3 miles mostly within the Southeastern Parkway & Greenbelt (“SEPG”) corridor – an undeveloped study corridor for a former highway project – crossing Dam Neck Road and London Bridge Road. The route would then head west/ southwest for about 3.2 miles within the SEPG corridor, crossing Holland Road and Princess Anne Road and entering the Princess Anne Commons area of Virginia Beach. About 1.8 miles of this segment of the route would be adjacent to Dominion’s existing transmission right-of-way for Lines #2118/147. In the area approximately between Dam Neck Road and Princess Anne Road, the route would pass between or near the Prince George Estates, Mayberry, Castleton, Pine Ridge, Holland Pines, and Woods of Piney Grove subdivisions.

From Princess Anne Commons, the route would continue southwest for about 0.8 mile within the SEPG corridor to an intersection with Dominion’s existing transmission right-ofway for Lines #271/I-74. The route would then follow this existing right-of-way for about 6.1 miles to the south, entering Chesapeake just south of Indian River Farms Park. In Virginia Beach, this route segment would cross Salem Road, North Landing River, and Indian River Road, and pass through or between the Highland Meadows, Highland Acres, Dewberry Farm, Indian River Woods, and Indian River Farms subdivisions.

In Chesapeake, the route segment would cross the Intracoastal Waterway canal, Mt. Pleasant Road, and Blue Ridge Road.

Existing lattice structures within the right-of-way for Lines #271/I 74 would be removed and replaced with new singlecircuit and double-circuit monopole structures to carry Line #271 and the three circuits required for the overhead transmission line.

From a point just south of Blue Ridge Road, Harpers to Fentress Proposed Route 1 would follow Dominion’s existing transmission right-of-way for Lines #2240/I-74 for about 1.7 miles to Fentress Substation, crossing Whittamore Road and the Centerville Turnpike and paralleling part of the boundary of the Battlefield Golf Club. Existing lattice structures within the right-of-way would be removed and replaced with new double circuit and single circuit monopole structures to carry Line #2240 and the three circuits required for the CVOW Project.

Harpers to Fentress Proposed Route 1 would require 354 single circuit or double circuit monopole structures with a minimum structure height of 75 feet, a maximum structure height of 170 feet, and an average structure height of 121 feet.

Harpers to Fentress Alternative Route 2 – Overhead Harpers to Fentress Alternative Route 2 would require an overhead installation of the three 230 kV transmission circuits between the Harpers Switching Station site in Virginia Beach and Dominion’s existing Fentress Substation in Chesapeake. The route would measure approximately 15.2 miles in total length.

After exiting the switching station, the route would head southwest for about 2.3 miles mostly within the SEPG corridor, crossing Dam Neck Road and London Bridge Road. The route would then head west/southwest for about 3.2 miles within the SEPG corridor, crossing Holland Road and Princess Anne Road and entering the Princess Anne Commons area of Virginia Beach.

About 1.8 miles of this segment would be adjacent to Dominion’s existing transmission right-of-way for Lines #2118/147. In the area approximately between Dam Neck Road and Princess Anne Road, the route would pass between or near the Prince George Estates, Mayberry, Castleton, Pine Ridge, Holland Pines, and Woods of Piney Grove subdivisions.

From Princess Anne Commons, the route would head south/ southwest for approximately 3.2 miles, crossing Salem Road, Indian River Road, North Landing River (where the route would enter Chesapeake), and the Intracoastal Waterway canal. The route would then head west for 3.2 miles paralleling the south side of the canal to an intersection with Dominion’s existing transmission right-of-way for Lines #271/I-74. The route would follow this existing right-of-way for about 1.6 miles to the south, crossing Mt. Pleasant Road and Blue Ridge Road. Existing lattice structures within the right-of-way would be removed and replaced with new double circuit and single circuit monopole structures to carry Line #271 and the three circuits required for the CVOW Project.

From a point just south of Blue Ridge Road, Harpers to Fentress Alternative Route 2 would follow Dominion’s existing transmission right-of-way for Line #2240 for about 1.7 mile to Fentress Substation, crossing Whittamore Road and the Centerville Turnpike and paralleling part of the boundary of the Battlefield Golf Club. Existing lattice structures within the right-of-way would be removed and replaced with new double circuit and single circuit monopole structures to carry Line #2240 and the three circuits required for the project.

Harpers to Fentress Alternative Route 2 would require 375 single circuit or double circuit monopole structures with a minimum structure height of 75 feet, a maximum structure height of 170 feet, and an average structure height of 120 feet.

Harpers to Fentress Alternative Route 5 – Overhead Harpers to Fentress Alternative Route 5 would require an overhead installation of the three 230 kV transmission circuits between the Harpers Switching Station site in Virginia Beach and Dominion’s existing Fentress Substation in Chesapeake. The route would measure approximately 20.2 miles in total length.

After exiting the switching station, the route would head southwest for about 2.3 miles mostly within the SEPG corridor, crossing Dam Neck Road and London Bridge Road. The route would then head west/southwest for about 3.2 miles within the SEPG corridor, crossing Holland Road and Princess Anne Road and entering the Princess Anne Commons area of Virginia Beach.

About 1.8 miles of this segment would be adjacent to Dominion’s existing transmission right-of-way for Lines #2118/147. In the area approximately between Dam Neck Road and Princess Anne Road, the route would pass between or near the Prince George Estates, Mayberry, Castleton, Pine Ridge, Holland Pines, and Woods of Piney Grove subdivisions.

From Princess Anne Commons, Harpers to Fentress Alternative Route 5 would head south for approximately 2.8 miles adjacent to Dominion’s existing right-of-way for Line #2085, crossing North Landing Road and Indian River Road and passing west of the Courthouse Estates and Courthouse Woods subdivisions. The route would then head southwest for 1.2 miles, crossing Upton’s Lane and the North Landing River near the North Landing River Bridge, at which point the route would enter Chesapeake. The route would then head south/southwest for 6.2 miles, crossing Mt. Pleasant Road (twice), Blackwater Road (thrice), Fentress Airfield Road (twice), and Land of Promise Road. Portions of this segment would parallel Fentress Airfield Road and Blackwater Road, and about 2.6 miles would parallel the south side of the Pocaty River. The route would then head west/northwest for 3.9 miles to Fentress Substation, crossing Long Ridge Road, Land of Promise Road, and the Centerville Turnpike.

Harpers to Fentress Alternative Route 5 would require 515 single circuit or double circuit monopole structures with a minimum structure height of 75 feet, a maximum structure height of 170 feet, and an average structure height of 116 feet.

Harpers to Fentress Alternative Hybrid Route – Underground/Overhead The Harpers to Fentress Alternative Hybrid Route would utilize essentially the same alignment as Harpers to Fentress

Proposed Route 1, but part of the route would be underground and the switching station (referred to as the Chicory Switching Station) would be built on an alternate site east of Princess Anne Road in Virginia Beach. The route would measure approximately 14.2 miles in total length. Beginning at Harpers Road, the route would use an underground configuration for the three 230 kV transmission circuits, heading southwest for about 2.3 miles, mostly within the SEPG corridor, crossing Dam Neck Road and London Bridge Road. The route would then head west/southwest for about 2.2 miles within the SEPG corridor to the Chicory Switching Station site near Princess Anne Road.

About 1.8 miles of this segment of the route would be adjacent to Dominion’s existing transmission right-of-way for Lines #2118/147. In the area approximately between Dam Neck Road and Princess Anne Road, the route would pass between or near the Prince George Estates, Mayberry, Castleton, Pine Ridge, Holland Pines, and Woods of Piney Grove subdivisions.

The Harpers to Fentress Alternative Hybrid Route would exit the Chicory Switching Station in an overhead configuration and continue west/southwest for about 1.7 miles within the SEPG corridor to an intersection with Dominion’s existing transmission right-of-way for Lines #271/I-74. The route would then follow this existing right-of-way for about 6.1 miles to the south, entering Chesapeake just south of Indian River Farms Park. In Virginia Beach, this route segment would cross Salem Road, North Landing River, and Indian River Road, and pass through or between the Highland Meadows, Highland Acres, Dewberry Farm, Indian River Woods, and Indian River Farms subdivisions.

In Chesapeake, the route segment would cross the Intracoastal Waterway canal, Mt. Pleasant Road, and Blue Ridge Road in Chesapeake. Existing lattice structures within the right-of-way for Lines #271/I-74 would be removed and replaced with new single circuit and double circuit monopole structures to carry Line #271 and the three circuits required for the project.

From a point just south of Blue Ridge Road, the Harpers to Fentress Alternative Hybrid Route would follow Dominion’s existing transmission right-of-way for Line #2240 for about 1.7 mile to Fentress Substation, crossing Whittamore Road and the Centerville Turnpike and paralleling part of the boundary of the Battlefield Golf Club. Existing lattice structures within the right-of-way would be removed and replaced with new double circuit and single circuit monopole structures to carry Line #2240 and the three circuits required for the project.

The overhead segment of the Harpers to Fentress Alternative Hybrid Route would require 243 single circuit or double circuit monopole structures with a minimum structure height of 75 feet, a maximum structure height of 170 feet, and an average structure height of 122 feet.

Dam Neck Route Variation – Overhead The Dam Neck Route Variation is an overhead alternative to the common segment of Harpers to Fentress Proposed Route 1 and Harpers to Fentress Alternative Routes 2 and 5 approximately between Dam Neck Road and Holland Drive in Virginia Beach where Harpers to Fentress Proposed Route 1 and Harpers to Fentress Alternative Routes 2 and 5 would pass between the Prince George Estates, Mayberry, Castleton, and Pine Ridge subdivisions. The route variation would measure approximately 2.8 miles in total length. It would parallel the south side of Dam Neck Road for approximately 1.8 miles to the west, then head south for about 1.0 mile to Dominion’s existing transmission right-of-way for Lines #2118/147. The route would cross Harpers Road, London Bridge Road, and West Neck Creek.

The route variation would require 75 single circuit monopole structures with a minimum structure height of 110 feet, a maximum structure height of 170 feet, and an average structure height of 124 feet.

Line #2085 Route Variation – Overhead The Line #2085 Route Variation is an overhead alternative to Harpers to Fentress Alternative Route 2, measuring approximately 4.4 miles in total length. It would deviate from Harpers to Fentress Alternative Route 2 in the Princess Anne Commons area of Virginia Beach. From here, it would follow Dominion’s existing right-of-way for Line #2085 for about 2.8 miles to the south, crossing North Landing Road and Indian River Road and passing west of the Courthouse Estates and Courthouse Woods subdivisions. The route would then head southwest and west for approximately 1.7 miles, crossing Upton’s Lane, North Landing River (where it would enter Chesapeake), North Landing Road, and the Intracoastal Waterway canal. The Line #2085 Route Variation would require 135 single circuit monopole structures (and H-frame structures at the canal crossing only) with a minimum structure height of 100 feet, a maximum structure height of 170 feet, and an average structure height of 113 feet.

The Commission may consider a route not significantly different from the routes described in this notice without additional notice to the public.

Interested persons are encouraged to review Dominion’s Application and supporting documents in full for details about these and other proposals. A more complete description of the Virginia Facilities also may be found in the Company’s Application.

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

The Commission has taken judicial notice of the ongoing public health issues related to the spread of the coronavirus, or COVID-19. In accordance therewith, all pleadings, briefs or other documents required to be served in this matter shall be submitted electronically to the extent authorized by 5 VAC 5-20150, Copies and format, of the Commission’s Rules of Practice and Procedure (“Rules of Practice”). Confidential and Extraordinarily Sensitive Information shall not be submitted electronically and should comply with 5 VAC 5-20-170, Confidential information, of the Rules of Practice. Any person seeking to hand deliver and

physically file or submit any pleading or other document shall contact the Clerk’s Office Document Control Center at (804) 371 9838 to arrange the delivery.

Pursuant to 5 VAC 5-20-140, Filing and service, of the Rules of Practice, the Commission has directed that service on parties and the Commission’s Staff in this matter shall be accomplished by electronic means. Please refer to the Commission’s Order for Notice and Hearing for further instructions concerning Confidential or Extraordinarily Sensitive Information.

The Commission entered an Order for Notice and Hearing that, among other things, scheduled public hearings on Dominion’s Application. On May 16, 2022, at 10 a.m., the Commission will hold a telephonic hearing, with no witness present in the Commission’s courtroom, for the purpose of receiving the testimony of public witnesses. On or before May 12, 2022, any person desiring to offer testimony as a public witness shall provide to the Commission (a) your name, and (b) the telephone number that you wish the Commission to call during the hearing to receive your testimony. This information may be provided to the Commission in three ways: (i) by filling out a form on the Commission’s website at scc.virginia.gov/pages/Webcasting; (ii) by completing and emailing the PDF version of this form to SCCInfo@scc.virginia.gov; or (iii) by calling (804) 371-9141. This public witness hearing will be webcast at scc.virginia.gov/pages/Webcasting.

On May 17, 2022, at 9 a.m., either in the Commission’s second floor courtroom located in the Tyler Building, 1300 East Main Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219, or by electronic means, a hearing will be convened to receive testimony and evidence from the Company, any respondents, and the Commission’s Staff.

Further details on this hearing will be provided by subsequent Commission order.

Copies of the Application and other supporting materials also may be inspected during regular business hours at the following locations: Dominion Energy Virginia Beach office 490l Princess Anne Road Virginia Beach, Virginia 23462 Dominion Energy Chesapeake office 801 S. Battlefield Blvd.

Chesapeake, Virginia 23322 Electronic copies of the public version of the Application and other supporting materials also may be inspected at: www.coastalvawind.com. Electronic copies of the public version of the Application may be obtained by submitting a written request to counsel for the Company, Vishwa B. Link, Esquire, McGuireWoods LLP, Gateway Plaza, 800 East Canal Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219, or vlink@mcguirewoods.com.

Interested persons also may download unofficial copies from the Commission’s website: scc.virginia.gov/pages/Case-Information.

On or before May 16, 2022, any interested person may submit comments on the Application electronically by following the instructions on the Commission’s website: scc.virginia.gov/casecomments/Submit-Public-Comments.

Those unable, as a practical matter, to submit comments electronically may file such comments by U.S. mail to the Clerk of the State Corporation Commission, c/o Document Control Center, P.O. Box 2118, Richmond, Virginia 23218-2118. All comments shall refer to Case No. PUR-2021-00142.

On or before February 25, 2022, any person or entity wishing to participate as a respondent in this proceeding may do so by filing a notice of participation with the Clerk of the Commission at: scc.virginia.gov/clk/efiling. Those unable, as a practical matter, to file a notice of participation electronically may file such notice by U.S. mail to the Clerk of the Commission at the address listed above. Such notice of participation shall include the email addresses of such parties or their counsel, if available.

A copy of the notice of participation as a respondent also must be sent to counsel for the Company. Pursuant to 5 VAC 5-20-80 B, Participation as a respondent, of the Commission’s Rules of Practice, any notice of participation shall set forth: (i) a precise statement of the interest of the respondent; (ii) a statement of the specific action sought to the extent then known; and (iii) the factual and legal basis for the action. Any organization, corporation or government body participating as a respondent must be represented by counsel as required by 5 VAC 5-20-30, Counsel, of the Rules of Practice. All filings shall refer to Case No. PUR-2021-00142.

On or before March 25, 2022, each respondent may file electronically with the Clerk of the Commission at scc.virginia.gov/clk/efiling any testimony and exhibits by which the respondent expects to establish its case, and each witness’s testimony shall include a summary not to exceed one page.

Any respondent unable, as a practical matter, to file testimony and exhibits electronically may file such by U.S. mail to the Clerk of the Commission at the address listed above. All testimony and exhibits shall be served on the Commission’s Staff, the Company, and all other respondents simultaneous with its filing.

In all filings, respondents shall comply with the Commission’s Rules of Practice, as modified by the Commission’s Order for Notice and Hearing, including, but not limited to: 5 VAC 5-20140, Filing and service, and 5 VAC 5-20-240, Prepared testimony and exhibits. All filings shall refer to Case No. PUR-2021-00142.

Any documents filed in paper form with the Office of the Clerk of the Commission in this docket may use both sides of the paper. In all other respects, except as modified by the Commission’s Order for Notice and Hearing, all filings shall comply fully with the requirements of 5 VAC 5-20-150, Copies and format, of the Commission’s Rules of Practice.

The Commission’s Rules of Practice, the Commission’s Order for Notice and Hearing, and the public version of other documents filed in this case may be viewed on the Commission’s website at: scc.virginia.gov/pages/Case Information.

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Just say no Just because someone gives you something doesn’t mean it’s worth having.

Latest prime examples: The state-owned 12-ton, 21-foot bronze statue of Confederate Robert E. Lee from Monument Avenue and several other city-owned rebel monuments that were taken down last year, including those of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, Gen. J.E.B Stuart and Gen. Stonewall Jackson and Matthew Fontaine Maury, also from Monument Avenue.

Gov. Ralph S. Northam and Richmond Mayor Levar M. Stoney announced last week a plan to gift this collection of Confederate flotsam and jetsam to the Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia. The small, privately run museum in Jackson Ward is to work with The Valentine, another small, privately run museum in Downtown that focuses on Richmond history, to figure out what to do with these behemoths.

According to the proposed arrangement, which must be approved by Richmond City Council, the public will have a voice in what happens to the statues.

Some people lauded this move on social media. They called it “poetic justice” by having the museum and descendants of those enslaved for centuries by white oppressors—and later by the traitors who led the Southern rebellion against the United States to keep Black people in bondage—to be overseers of the fate of the statues erected by white supremacists and their descendants to honor the Lost Cause and to remind Black people of their continued inferior status in the Southern social order.

“Symbols matter, and for too long, Virginia’s most prominent symbols celebrated our country’s tragic division and the side that fought to keep alive the institution of slavery by any means possible,” Gov. Northam stated in a news release announcing the gift. “Now it will be up to our thoughtful museums, informed by the people of Virginia, to determine the future of these artifacts, including the base of the Lee Monument which has taken on special significance as protest art.”

The big question: Why would the Black History Museum — and Black people, generally — want anything to do with these monuments?

For centuries, we have had to take care of white people and all their “stuff” — their homes, their kitchens, their laundry, their children, their crops, their livestock, their businesses — first on plantations and later as “hired” workers. Why now do we want to be saddled with the burden of taking care of their statues?

Why should the Black History Museum divert its time, attention and resources to deal with these remnants of hate?

To this point, the state and city have been responsible for the statues’ storage, maintenance and security. What will happen when the statues suddenly belong to the Black History Museum? Will the museum — not quite flush with cash — be expected to foot those bills?

How many of the museum’s current faithful donors would be willing to continue giving knowing their money will be spent to properly safeguard this new Confederate cache whose value the city estimates at $12 million?

We believe many will turn to directed giving, stipulating that their donations be targeted to specific areas and not to the support or upkeep of the Confederate statues.

For years, we, at the Free Press, urged that the symbols of white supremacy and racial oppression on Monument Avenue be stricken from the city’s landscape. And we are glad they now have been taken down. We recommended in the past that they be given or sold to the National Park Service’s Civil War battlefields or other related historic sites, such as birthplaces or Civil War museums or cemeteries, as contextual artifacts.

Since their removal in mid-2020, the statues have become a sort of albatross around the neck of the City of Richmond, which has grappled with what to do with them. In late 2020, the city received nearly two dozen bids from 17 organizations and five private individuals who expressed interest in acquiring the statues. The Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia was not among them. Most of the bids, which came from as far away as California, asked for the statues for free.

A Los Angeles museum wanted them for up to two years for an exhibit, the Free Press reported in November 2020, while a Connecticut art studio proposed the statues be broken up and the pieces sold as a fundraiser for Richmond Public Schools and charitable groups in the city.

Dealing with COVID-19 and other pressing issues right now, the statues haven’t been a priority for the city and the Stoney administration, which spent $1.8 million to take them down. And the issue of the Lee statue and pedestal has been a political hot potato for Gov. Northam’s administration, which doesn’t want to leave the question of what to do with them to the incoming Republican administration of Gov.elect Glenn A. Youngkin, who may very well decide to put the Lee statue back up.

However, we believe the gift of the statues is a weight that shouldn’t fall on the Black History Museum, despite the comments from Marland Buckner, the museum’s interim executive director.

“Our institution takes very seriously the responsibility to manage these objects in ways that ensure their origins and purpose are never forgotten …,” Mr. Buckner stated. “We believe with this responsibility also comes opportunity – opportunities to deepen our understanding of an essential element of the American story: the expansion of freedom.

“We hope this process will elevate public dialogue about our shared history …”

While the museum is a venerable institution representing the history of Black people in Richmond and throughout the Commonwealth, the museum certainly would want to weigh in on what should happen to the Confederate artifacts.

But owning them and being the entity responsible for them is like giving a poison apple to a starving man. That story doesn’t end well.

At the risk of sounding flip, we suggest the Black History Museum hold a rummage sale or auction to get rid of these statues once and for all—to appropriate relocation sites—and then use the proceeds to further its own mission of telling the story of Black people, their lives, history and accomplishments, even in the face of centuries of oppression.

Or the museum could just say no and turn down these “gifts.”

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What will 2022 bring?

Far too many in our community fail to look to the future seriously. My greatest disappointment is in those who have so very much to lose and who demonstrate so little concern about the futures they must face.

I have spoken and written before about those who live life by default and move aimlessly from one crisis to another. Instead of asking why something is bei ng done and what it means to their existence, they merely acknowledge that something happened. Instead of claiming control of their circumstance, they resign themselves to having no control nor wanting any control over their circumstance. Like the “house Negroes,” in words and deeds, they teach future generations the lesson of hopelessness.

The events of 2021 and the

four years prior foretell a future that is threatening to the security of all Americans, especially African-Americans and other people of color. I received an article published in The Daily Beast titled, “The Weak Better Buckle Up.” A summary of the article stated, “A Daily Beast analysis of social media posts seems to paint (Denver gunman Lyndon) McLeod as an author

Dr. E. Faye Williams dedicated to alt-right philosophies—including violence.” In addition to killing five people and shooting a police officer before being killed himself, the article’s subject was dedicated to alt-right philosophies, including masculine supremacy, contrarian COVID-19 beliefs and targeted violence against the “weak.” I can only wonder who he considered weak.

Last month, at a rally I referenced in a previous article, an attendee openly stated that it

was time to start killing “these people.” I can’t say with absolute certainty, but the context of his statement made me feel as though I could have been a target. I found it more than interesting that the speaker and his audience were cavalier about killing others whose ideas differ from their own.

We are in the midst of the anniversary of the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol attack. The terrorist goal was to subvert the will of millions of American voters and violently amend the U.S. Constitution for the benefit of a fascist president. Their chants and actions gave notice that they were mortal enemies of those with opposing ideas. Just as in Charlottesville, the whiteness of the terrorists and their rhetoric gave support to the analysis that their ultimate agenda was to recreate a nation of white power and white control despite the will of the majority.

There are some who will accuse me of painting all white people with a broad, race-

How young people can save America My new year’s wish this year is that across the country, every high school gives each graduate a diploma and a voter registration card, and every center of education and training — whether community college or four-year university, technical training or business school — ensures that every entering student is registered to vote.

The energy, the urgency, the imagination of the young offer this country the best hope for salvation.

The young generation is the most diverse and the least racist of Americans. By a stunning 7 to 1, Gallup found 18- to 29year-olds supported the social justice protests triggered by the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer.

Young people mobilized the largest interracial demonstrations in history in response. They care about inequality: 70 percent of voters under 45 would raise taxes on the wealthy.

They care about equal justice: 81 percent support giving permanent legal status to the Dreamers, and 83 percent support gay marriage. They are fearful about their own futures.

A global survey of 10,000 young people between ages 16 and 25 found about 60 percent were “very” or “extremely” worried about climate change.

And nearly two-thirds felt their government was failing them on climate change.

Many of the young are alienated by today’s Republican Party and its race-bait politics, but they are frustrated with both parties.

As Harvard University Professor Thomas Patterson reported, exit polls show voters under age 30 have backed the Democratic

Party presidential nominee by more than 3 to 2 during the past five elections.

President Biden’s victory over former President Trump was propelled by young voters.

Exit polls show voters under age 45 gave President Biden a 57 percent to 43 percent split in the two-party vote, while Mr. Trump

Jesse L. Jackson Sr. won older voters by about 52 percent to 48 percent. But young voters are increasingly turned off by a politics that doesn’t work for them, frustrated by the gridlock in Washington, by the corruption and cynicism of our two major parties.

Republicans have responded to this reality not by reaching out — as many young Republicans urge them to do — but by trying to suppress the vote of young people. They work particularly hard to keep students from registering at their universities, making it far less likely that they vote anywhere. They oppose automatic voter registration and same-day registration, confident young and people of color will be less likely to jump the hurdles needed to register and vote. Voting by the young should not be a partisan issue.

The 26th Amendment, which lowered the voting age to 18, was passed with bipartisan support in 1971 when Republican Richard Nixon was president. It was ratified by the states faster than any other amendment in history.

Part of that was if 18-year-olds were old enough to be drafted into the military to fight, surely they should be old enough to vote. Part of it was the legacy of the Civil Rights Movement, with the NAACP and union and young civil rights activists pushing to expand the right to vote. Today, Republicans are

doubling down on their efforts to constrict the vote in states across the country. My wish will be fulfilled only if young people mobilize and defend their right to vote — and if they mobilize and vote in large numbers this coming fall.

This young generation faces dire challenges. Catastrophic climate change. Global pandemics.

Savage inequality. Entrenched racial discrimination. Pervasive corruption. Bitter partisan division. A country fighting endless wars abroad even as it declines at home. Growing anger at a failed establishment, shaking even the foundations of democracy. These challenges will only be met by new generations bringing new energy, new ideas, new idealism and new movements to break through our partisan gridlock.

The challenges are great, yet we know that when young America acts collectively on a moral issue, we always win.

Young America walked the halls of Congress to abolish slavery — and won. Young America rose against apartheid.

James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner and Medgar Evers were martyred, touching the conscience of the nation. John Lewis and Hosea Williams, as students, walked across the Edmund Pettus Bridge and stood tall. Students rose to end the war in Vietnam.

Now, in this dark time, the former Confederate states have once again led a reaction, seeking to discredit elections, voting against free public education, against relief from student debt, against action on climate change.

Young America must rise again or live with regret. If they come alive, they can write their own history, save democracy and keep hope alive.

The writer is founder and president of the national Rainbow PUSH Coalition.

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based brush of condemnation. In fact, all Americans face a growing threat from the mostly white, home-grown terrorists who will not accept a country that is structured on merit-based achievement and equity of opportunity. They refuse to accept that power will be shared and that they hold no monopoly on intellectual brilliance or even ordinary common sense. They are more than willing to govern through intimidation and violence, targeting those who oppose their will.

I am not seeking my turn in front of the crystal ball. Instead, I am sounding a call to action to prevent our social devolution into a return to the hellish nightmare of legislated racism and discrimination.

The writer is national president of the National Congress of Black Women Inc.

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Tips to deal with holiday, post-holiday blues Holiday depression, also called the “holiday blues,” is a real thing, and it can last long after the holidays. It affects 1 million people every year.

Sometimes, this can lead to suicide.

Men and women, young and old all fall victim to feelings of sadness, loneliness, anxiety, guilt and fatigue during this emotionally charged season.

The Men’s Health Network offers the following 10 suggestions to help you identify and ward off or, at least, better cope with potential sources of holiday depression.

1 – Acknowledge that you’re hurting. Acknowledge your pain, be open and honest with others, refuse to feel guilty and get help if necessary. It’s OK to laugh. You won’t be struck by a bolt of lightning for laughing. Remember, a closed mouth won’t get fed.

2 – Have a plan to deal with your feelings. Try to surround yourself with people who care about and support you.

Invest in an exercise program. Activities such as walking, running, cycling,

etc., are recommended because of their mood-elevating ability. Learn to say, “No.” Others’ expectations are not a reason for your own mental health to suffer. Set realistic expectations.

3 – Take time for yourself. Make yourself a priority. Getting enough rest, eating and drinking in moderation, exercising and continuing other favorite activities can maintain normalcy, routine, control and predictability.

4 – Consider that your depression may actually be caused by this time of year. Seasonal Affective Disorder, or SAD, occurs because of reduced exposure to sunlight, which happens during the holiday season when daylight hours are shorter. Check with your doctor to see if light therapy might be beneficial.

5 – Help others. Soup kitchens, homeless shelters, nursing homes, churches and scores of other organizations can always use volunteers. You’ll benefit from the company of other people rather than being alone.

6 – Bury the hatchet. Perfect

families don’t magically appear during the holidays, but family conflicts can.

“Letting go” and forgiving can help heal past wounds.

7 – Start your own traditions. Both families and traditions change with time.

Rather than reminiscing about “the good ol’ days,” accept the fact that change is necessary, grasp things as they are now, look forward to the future and create your own family traditions that can be enjoyed and even preserved for future generations.

8 – Keep your alcohol intake low.

Remember, alcohol has a depressive effect on the nervous system, so if you are experiencing holiday blues, drinking too much will only worsen your depression.

9 – Re-dedicate yourself to your spirituality. Step back, slow down and refocus on transcendent, eternal matters.

Re-dedicate yourself to spiritual pursuits such as church attendance, prayer life and other disciplines.

10 – Connect with proven resources and effective treatments for depression.

This can help you find a solution that improves your life. It can be difficult to handle depression on your own, so talking with your family and friends can be a first step. You also can consider connection with your doctor, a mental health professional such as a therapist, your local Veterans Administration medical center or veterans center or a spiritual or religious advisor.

Here are some helplines: • Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration: www.samhsa. gov or (800) 662-HELP (4357).

• Veterans Crisis Line: www.veteranscrisisline.net or (800) 273-8255 and press 1 or text 838255. (Open to veterans and non-veterans.)

• National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: www.suicidepreventionlifeline. org or (800) 273-TALK (8255) or text HELLO (741741).

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Happenings Personality: Myra Goodman Smith Spotlight on board chair of the Annabella R. Jenkins Foundation

With the rise of the omicron Virginia and West Virginia. She variant of COVID-19, focus joined the Jenkins Foundation again is being directed toward in 2015 as a member of the the systemic issues surrounding board, and was elected board health care and health care chair in December 2020 after delivery systems. These types of serving as board vice chair for issues have been a lifelong focus two years.

“I joined the board because for Myra Goodman Smith.

The Richmond native serves of my interest in health,” Ms. as board chair of the Anna- Smith says. “I’ve always been bella R. Jenkins Foundation, drawn to health organizations where she helps push for a because that’s not what I work more comprehensive response in every day. So it’s a more not just to COVID-19, but on personal draw for me.”

The foundation also tarways to improve the health and wellness of the Richmond region gets funding to programs that during what she calls “the most connect trauma specialists to challenging health care crisis, survivors of violence.

“I think all of us in the mental and physical, in our philanthropic community wish lifetime.”

“In light of the convergence we could do more,” Ms. Smith of the pandemic and the mag- says. “But I think that, if we’ve nification of health disparities, been smart about it and having the foundation must ensure that conversations about it, we’re not it is on the best path to address tripping over each other.

“I’m glad we’re able to give The Jenkins Foundation is: and prepare for the known and unknown physical and mental out some substantial amounts A $60 million health legacy impacts of the crisis, especially of dollars,” she continues. “I foundation led by a dedicated in Black and brown communi- know there are so many people group of women who are comin the community doing such mitted to improve the health and ties,” Ms. Smith says.

In 2021, the foundation pro- great work, but more needs to wellness of our region.

When and why founded: When vided $2.2 million in grants to be done.”

Meet an advocate and funder Retreat Hospital was sold, the 47 area organizations, including Cross Over Clinic, Daily Planet for community health and well- Jenkins Foundation was created Health Services, Rx Partner- being initiatives and this week’s in 1995 from proceeds to carry ship, Free Clinic of Powhatan, Personality, Myra Goodman on the mission of the hospital’s all-female auxiliary board.

South Richmond Adult Day Care Smith: Center, La Casa de la Salud, Jenkins Foundation mission: No. 1 volunteer position: Board Improving the health of Greater ChildSavers and CARITAS. Ms. Smith cites her parents chair, Annabella R. Jenkins Richmond through strategic and their health issues as ma- Foundation. and impactful philanthropy. jor influences in her life. Their Occupation: President and The Jenkins Foundation is struggles with kidney failure, chief executive officer, Leader- important in our community lupus and cancer “reflect a ship Metro Richmond. as a major health care funder picture of social determinants” that provides greatly needed Date and place of birth: Feb. of health that led to their demise resource to improve access to at age 65. Those social determi- 16 in Richmond. primary health care, access to nants of health, which include Where I live now: Amelia mental health care and prevengender, age, education, income County. tion and treatment of substance and ethnicity, are sometimes Education: Huguenot High use disorders. overlooked.

School in Richmond; bachelor’s The experience with her in urban planning and master’s in Foundation name backstory: parents led Ms. Smith to volun- public administration, Virginia Born in Richmond in 1837, Annabella Jenkins opened her home teer with health organizations. Commonwealth University. to care for wounded enlisted She served in leadership roles soldiers during the Civil War. Family: Husband, Lawrence on the boards of the Leukemia After the war, she organized a Smith; daughter, Lauren; and and Lymphoma Society and the VR 2021 Numbers Ad FREEPRESS 1216B HIGHREZ.pdf 2 12/16/21 hospital 3:22 PMthat provided medical granddaughter, Skylar.

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care for the sick, regardless of class, income, race or religion. Her efforts resulted in the creation of Retreat Hospital for the Sick in Richmond.

When elected board chair: December 2020 for a two-year term.

No. 1 goal or project as chair: To lead the foundation in refining its strategic plans to be more informed, strategic and flexible to best support our grantees and partners now and into the future. In light of the convergence of the pandemic and the magnification of health disparities, the foundation must ensure that it is on the best path to address and prepare for the known and unknown physical and mental impacts of the crisis, especially in Black and Brown communities.

Who benefits from the Jenkins Foundation: Children, families and elderly residents of our region.

How the foundation is helping during COVID-19: During the early days of the pandemic, the foundation quickly provided $100,000 to the Central Virginia COVID-19 Emergency Response Fund and created a $500,000 deposit account with Virginia Community Capital for the Paycheck Prevention program to help nonprofits bridge revenue shortfalls due to the pandemic.

How the foundation addresses trauma: Mental health care access is a priority of the foundation and support for the regional network that is creating a trauma-informed and resilient community. In addition, targeted funding is provided to programs that connect trauma specialists to survivors of intimate partner violence and services that

provide trauma-informed care for children.

Health disparities in our community: The Jenkins Foundation understands that health disparities are preventable circumstances that are related to individuals’ health status based on social factors such as income, ethnicity, education, age and gender. We have increased our understanding by reviewing information on data and trends, through research and conversations with issue experts, our partners and grantees.

The Jenkins Foundation partners with: The Richmond Memorial Health Foundation, The Community Foundation, the Virginia Funders Network and numerous grantees in our region.

Racial equity and the Jenkins Foundation: The Jenkins Foundation board and staff have challenged itself to learn, stretch and grow in the understanding of racial equity, engaging in conversations and storytelling.

The diversity of the board brings rich perspectives and insights, which is helping to create the racial equity lens the foundation must utilize in all that we do.

Organizations the foundation has assisted: In 2021, the foundation granted $2.2 million to 47 organizations, including Cross Over Clinic, South Richmond Adult Day Care Center, La Casa de la Salud, Goochland Cares and ChildSavers.

A perfect day for me: A day I can say I did my best!

What I am learning about myself during the pandemic: The isolation has given me quiet time to reflect on my life, my work, my abilities and what is truly important. I have ideas that I have shelved over the years and now I have time and confidence to take the chance to put them into action.

Something I love to do that

most people would never imagine: Play billiards.

Quote that inspires me: In 2006, I met Bishop Desmond Tutu. He took my hand and said, “Bless you my child.” I will never forget that. The following quote by him inspires me on how to address social determinants of health: “There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they’re falling in.” ― Desmond Tutu My friends describe me as: An empathetic adviser.

At the top of my “to-do” list: To drop off a box of glassware at Goodwill.

Best late-night snack: Something sweet!

Best thing my parents ever taught me: Be kind and work to help others.

Person who influenced me the most: Equally my parents. Their health struggles reflect a picture of social determinants that led to their deaths at the age of 65. Mom’s kidney failure and 25-year battle with lupus and Dad’s cancer influenced me to volunteer with health organizations. I served on the board of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society and was board chair of the National Kidney Foundation for Virginia and West Virginia.

Book that influenced me the most: “The Leadership Challenge” by Barry Posner and James Kouzes.

What I’m reading now: “Design Thinking for the Greater Good: Innovation in the Social Sector” by Daisy Azer, Jeanne Liedtka and Randy Salzman.

Next goal: To continue to move forward on addressing the health and wellness needs of residents and, specifically, vulnerable members of our communities.

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Happenings 2021 Year in Photos The year 2021 was a tug of war between the life changes precipitated by the COVID-19-related shutdowns of 2020 and efforts to return to a pre-COVID way of life.

Richmonders started 2021 with high hopes for a return to normalcy with the newly introduced vaccines becoming more widely available and eagerly taken, first by older adults and those with underlying health conditions, and by year’s end vaccine approval for children ages 5 and older.

As long lines formed with people ready to roll up their sleeves for the vaccine, hope turned to hesitancy in some quarters, and struggles continued over vaccine, booster and mask mandates as conditions for employment and returning to in-person university learning and to K-12 classrooms.

The economic hardships, social disruptions and uncertainty caused by the pandemic helped fuel a rise in gun violence and deaths in Richmond and around the nation, particularly in communities already strained by poverty. Vigils and funerals were held in Richmond and Henrico for victims claimed by violence. Some somber ceremonies were held virtually in the wake of the more highly transmissible delta and omicron variants of the

virus late in the year.

Still, throughout 2021, people sought to engage in “normal” school and sporting activities and birthday, graduation and holiday celebrations with some pandemicrelated adjustments built in.

A hotly contested election for Virginia governor drove voters to the polls statewide in nearly record numbers during the fall and drew campaign visits to Richmond by former President Obama and other national figures.

And the racial reckoning borne out of the murder of George Floyd by former Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin in 2020 continued into 2021. The six-story statue and pedestal honoring Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, a symbol of white supremacy since its erection in 1890, was removed from Richmond’s Monument Avenue.

In telling the whole story, officials also unveiled and dedicated a new Emancipation and Freedom Monument on Brown’s Island on the James River in Downtown.

Richmond Free Press photographers Sandra Sellars and Regina H. Boone and freelance photographers Clement Britt and Randy Singleton captured the ups and downs of 2021 through their work. Here are some of the highlights.

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A marijuana plant being grown at the Green Leaf Medical facility in South Side has reached the flowering stage, producing tiny crystals called tricomes that are harvested for medicinal oils THC and CBD. The facility was the second medical marijuana dispensary to open in the state.

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Above, Jada Foreman, an Atlee High School junior and track field star, poses Feb. 26 with the many pairs of track shoes she carries around so she can be ready for any situation.

The 17-year-old won five individual events in the Region 5B track & field meet, helping lead the Hanover County school to win the title. Above right, massive rows of cars line up Jan. 30 outside Richmond Raceway in Henrico County, where area health department officials administered the new COVID-19 vaccine to seniors and people with underlying health conditions.

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More than 200 white flags representing the number of Richmonders who had died at that point from COVID-19 were placed outside New Kingdom Christian Ministries on Dill Avenue in Highland Park in early March. The church held a candlelight vigil March 6 outside the church in memory of loved ones lost. Several people spoke about the impact of COVID-19 on their lives and the lives of their loved ones. Others watched the ceremony virtually.

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Retired nurse Juliette Stephens Hamilton, left, stands on her front porch in Washington Park as well-wishers offer drive-by greetings to celebrate her 103rd birthday on March 25. Ms. Hamilton welcomed guests and drivers alongside Brenda Dabney Nichols, president of the Washington Park Civic Association, who helped organize the “Parade Drive-By Celebration” with members of Ms. Hamilton’s family.

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Left, pallbearers accompany the casket shared by Sharnez Hill, 30, and her 3-month-old daughter, Neziah Hill, after their funeral May 8 at United Nations Church in South Side, where hundreds of mourners paid their final respects. The mother and daughter were shot and killed April 27, and three other people, including 11- and 15-yearold girls, were wounded outside the Belt Atlantic Apartments in South Side by young men shooting at each other across the apartment complex courtyard. Right, Cruz Sherman, founder of Men in Action, leads a prayer outside the apartment complex as those assembled hold up three fingers in honor of the infant who was killed.

The stop the violence rally was held May 1. Below left, members of the Elegba Folklore Society pour libations honoring the ancestors during a performance June 18 at Dogwood Dell in Byrd Park as part of the city’s 64th Annual Festival of Arts. It was one of several area events marking the first year of Juneteenth as a national holiday.

Right, valedictorians at Richmond’s public high schools celebrated during a group photo June 12 at Byrd Park. They are, from left, Te’Vonya Jeter of Huguenot; Aissatou Barry of Richmond Community; Airheiz Cabrera of Armstrong; Harold Aquino-Guzman of George Wythe; Terri Lee of Franklin Military Academy; Mary Jane Perkins-Lynch of Thomas Jefferson; and Abena Williams of Open High. Not pictured in A’Nya Davis of John Marshall.

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Andre Tolleris waves a banner to the honks of drivers passing by the Lee statue on Monument Avenue after a jury found a former Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin guilty of the murder of George Floyd on April 20. The Lee statue on Richmond’s Monument Avenue had become a rallying point for large protests against police brutality and racial injustice following Mr. Floyd’s death in May 2020.

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Talisha Braxton of New York, left, talks with her boyfriend, Burney Hatchett III, from within their tents set up outside the vacant Richmond Coliseum on July 11. Homeless people who had been living outside the Coliseum were moved by Richmond Police and other officials before workers began installing a fence around the Downtown venue in preparation for its demolition.

More than 9,000 people watch a colorful fireworks display at The Diamond on July 3 following the Richmond Flying Squirrels’ Fourth of July weekend home stand against the Binghamton Rumble Ponies of New York.

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Members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 9808 in Mechanicsville lead a three-volley salute during a twilight memorial ceremony July 28 held at the Sons and Daughters of Ham Cemetery near Bandy Field in Henrico County. The ceremony, held on National Buffalo Soldiers Day, honored Moses Bradford Jr., a Buffalo Soldier who served in the 25th Infantry during the Spanish-American War. He is buried in the cemetery.

Above, two 12-foot bronze statues comprising the Emancipation and Freedom Monument are unveiled and dedicated during a ceremony Sept. 22 before several hundred people at Brown’s Island in Downtown. Right, An emotional state Sen. Jennifer L. McClellan, head of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Commission that spearheaded the creation of the monument, is comforted by Gov. Ralph S. Northam as Delegate Betsy B. Carr, left, applauds the unveiling. Many in the crowd also shed tears during the ceremony.

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Former President Obama fires up a crowd of nearly 3,000 people Oct. 23 during a campaign rally for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe on the campus of Virginia Commonwealth University. The former president was among a bevy of national figures who stumped in the state to boost voter turnout for the former governor. Mr. McAuliffe lost the election on Nov. 2 to political neophyte and Republican Glenn A. Youngkin.

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The huge statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee is carefully lowered to the ground by workers, where it was cut in half for transport by truck to state storage. Gov. Ralph S. Northam had ordered the state-owned statue to come down in July 2020, but court challenges held up its removal until Sept. 8, 2021.

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Keisha Spearman, 45, uses her cellphone camera to document her daughter, London, 5, getting her first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at Fairfield Middle School in Henrico County on Nov. 13.The Henrico and Richmond school districts partnered with area health districts to host inoculation clinics for youngsters ages 5 to 11 after federal officials gave the green light for the vaccine to be administered to children.

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U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, center, listens as Virginia elected officials detail how Jackson Ward was dissected by the construction of Interstate 95. With him on the walking tour of the Richmond neighborhood on Dec. 3 are from left, U.S. Rep. A. Donald McEachin, U.S. Rep. Abigail Spanberger, Gov. Ralph S. Northam, Mayor Levar M. Stoney and U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine.

Award-winning musician and Virginia Beach native Pharrell Williams is overcome with emotion Dec. 11 as he is made an honorary member of the Norfolk State University Spartan Legion Marching Band and presented with a framed band uniform by NSU President Javaune AdamsGaston. Mr. Williams delivered the commencement address to the university’s fall graduates. He also was awarded an honorary doctorate during the ceremony at NSU’s Joseph G. Echols Hall.

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Happenings An honest accounting

Richmond writer reveals story of her family’s interracial heritage that has been shrouded in history

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

Richmond novelist Ellen Glasgow gained fame for her realistic depictions of women, their relationships and their efforts to gain independence in a male-dominated world.

However, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author went to her grave in 1945 without ever publicly disclosing her family’s big secret — that they had Black relatives.

Now one of those relatives is telling about the complex relationships involving the Glas-

“I promised my family that I would bring it to light.” gows and her family, opening a window into the cross-racial ties that occurred among many Richmond families.

Honor Winfree Benson, a great-great-niece of Ms. Glasgow, grew up listening to her family’s stories about the connections. After years of library research in addition to the family information and document archive, she has recorded the relationship with the Glasgow family in a 650-page genealogy, not yet published, titled “We Are Richmond,” and a historical novel just issued titled “Cast By Iron.”

“This has been an untold story of Richmond,” said Ms. Benson, a proud member of a family

of tradesmen, artists and educators. “I promised my family that I would bring it to light.”

What the former Richmond teacher found is that her great-grandfather, William Winfree, was Ms. Glasgow’s half-brother.

Ms. Glasgow’s father, Francis Thomas Glasgow, a manager of Tredegar Iron Works, had a long-running affair with a maid, Emma Jackson, who came from the Pamunkey Indian reservation to work in the Glasgow home.

Mr. Winfree, who lived to age 90, was one of two brothers born from that affair, Ms. Benson said, but was the only one to have children.

Ms. Benson While initially part of the Glasgow household, Mr. Winfree was sent at age 3 to live with a Black woman, Mary Winfree, Ms. Benson said.

Mr. Glasgow, though, met regularly with his Black sons to provide social and financial support, she said. Mr. Glasgow and his white children, including Ellen Glasgow, periodically met with his Black offspring, meetings that his white children continued after his death, accord-

ing to Ms. Benson.

Mr. Glasgow also ensured his Black sons had education and were trained in skilled trades, though he did not include them in his will, Ms. Benson said. She said it is not clear if Mr. Glasgow set up trusts for his two Black sons as he had for Ms. Glasgow and her siblings.

One of Mr. Glasgow’s white sons, Arthur, who became a prominent gas works engineer, sought through his will to benefit any grandchildren of his father and their descendants.

But none of the proceeds of Arthur Glasgow’s estate apparently have gone to his Black relatives, Ms. Benson said.

Arthur Glasgow died in 1955, but a trust he had set up provided a combined $125 million to Virginia Commonwealth University and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in 2011, according to Ms. Benson.

Today, Ms. Benson believes that she and her sister, Hope, are the last remaining members of the Glasgow family, which could make them heirs of Arthur Glasgow’s estate. The Richmond Circuit Court authorized DNA tests to verify the connection, and Ms. Benson said legal contact has begun with representatives of Arthur Glasgow’s trust.

Ms. Benson said her family tree also includes ties by marriage to a once prominent Jewish family, the Marx family, who were significant

Richmond bankers and physicians.

Ms. Benson has published the first two books of a five-part historical novel titled “Blood of a Rose” about the Marx family and her other blood lines from the American Revolution through the Jim Crow era.

She said that she has found her family’s story is woven into the fabric of a host of ethnic and religious communities, including “the American Indian, Black, white, Calvinist, Catholic, Pentecostal, Episcopal and Jewish.”

“What I am hoping,” she said, “is that what I have written will bring a little more insight into the full story of Richmond and give something to those whose history was completely lost.”

Former London Fashion Week designer pivots with success after being wrongly imprisoned in UK

By Joseph Hammond Religion News Service

From the pinnacles of the fashion world to a wrongful stint in prison and back, Elle B. Mambetov’s extraordinary personal journey has helped her emerge as a unique voice in the world of luxury fashion.

Half a decade ago, her label Elle B. Zhou appeared at Paris Fashion Week and her handbag collection at London Fashion Week. She was working with some of the largest retailers in the United Kingdom after a stint living in China.

The Texas-born designer, who got her first sewing machine at age 7, was one of fashion’s rising stars.

Then police officers knocked on the door of her London flat with questions.

Ms. Mambetov, a foreigner, was cooperative but, unsure of the country’s legal system, she never asked for a warrant. She was accused of fraud. In fact, Ms. Mambetov was the victim of an identity scam. A con man

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she told Religion News Service.

“There is often an eerie silence about it and often people show their attitude not with their words but their actions. In the prison system, I was treated through a racial lens.”

Sometimes in her cell, she said, she contemplated suicide.

At other times, she dreamed of a triumphant return to the

Virtual modeling of Elle B Zhou fashions.

whom she first met at a fitness center had stolen her identity in a complex scam and charged some $1.3 million to her business. Arrested for the crime, he was charged by the Inner London Crown Court with six counts of fraud. Yet, he skipped bail and fled the country — all before Ms. Mambetov was detained by the police.

The same con artist had also claimed to be a representative of other celebrities in internet transactions, including Ed Sheeran and Taylor Swift.

Despite knowing she was not responsible for the crime, Ms. Mambetov was kept in prison for more than two years because she was deemed a flight risk. Much of that time was spent at HMP Bronzefield, a maximum-security women’s prison near London, where Ms. Mambetov, who is Black, said she experienced extreme racism.

“America has its own racism and issues but, what I experienced in the United Kingdom was a very different level and widely spread form of racism,”

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world of fashion. She documented much of her ordeal in a book, “A6347DW: American Captive.”

Raised a Christian, Ms. Mambetov was surprised by the lack of support she received from her faith community.

“When I went into jail, every Christian other than my mother abandoned me,” she said, adding that she wrote letters to every Christian she knew and they “did nothing.”

“Christians who had been in my life were completely gone,” she said.

Eventually, she said, her mother’s letters to Congress attracted the attention of the U.S. government to her case, which contributed to her release.

Ms. Mambetov is seeking legal action due to her ordeal and says she still suffers from posttraumatic stress disorder.

Upon her release, she was told she would have no criminal record and would be given a one-way ticket out of the United Kingdom. She chose Los Angeles.

In California, Ms. Mambetov

took up residence at an Airbnb near Los Angeles International Airport for a time. The owner of the property knew all about leaving a country under duress.

Selim Mambetov, a Crimean Tatar, had left Ukraine not long after Crimea was seized by Russian military forces in 2014.

His father had been a Crimea language media personality and before the Russian occupation he had pursued a creative career of his own. Today, he works on solving Los Angeles’ large homeless problem. The two soon fell in love.

“As a Christian, I was taught you couldn’t marry a nonChristian. After prison, after the way which so-called Christians, except my mother, treated me, I didn’t care what people thought about a Christian marrying a Muslim,” she told RNS. Ms. Mambetov converted to Islam not long after, she said, as part of a personal spiritual journey that started when she was still in prison. She returned to the world of fashion but with a focus on the modest fashion movement popular with many Muslim consumers.

She revived her brand Elle B. Zhou during Ramadan 2020.

Her recent womenswear collection, titled “Let the Stars Be Our Guide,” included a constellation map of the stars over Mecca and featured Egyptian actress Huda El Mufti.

For a brief time, Ms. Mambetov also ran an Elle B. Zhou luxury boutique at the Beverly Center in Los Angeles. Amid such retail outlets as Burberry, Tiffany’s and Fendi, her brand offered a different aesthetic.

With Quranic verses on display, Allah diamond necklaces for sale and no music pumping through its speakers, Ms. Mambetov hoped to put customers in a more reflective mood.

“I wanted to create a space that was more deeply rooted, that was inclusive of all and that was also halal,” she said. Still, the store’s foot traffic included customers of all stripes, from Muslim Americans to Hollywood celebrities.

A number of factors, including hidden fees, differing visions for the space and increasing street crime in Los Angeles, led Ms. Mambetov to close the shop. She now hopes to open a department store focused on modest fashion somewhere in the Beverly Hills area. She also plans to open a boutique in Qatar, where she maintains an office and has partnered with the online luxury shopping boutique Farfetch.

“I have been traveling internationally my whole life without issue. But, the first time I went to travel with a hijab I

An image from the Elle B. Zhou relaunch in 2020.

had a different experience. I was pulled aside. I told the people who were interrogating me that this had never happened to me before but they insisted it was ‘routine questioning’ and nothing abnormal,” Ms. Mambetov said. When she arrived at her destination, she discovered a Rimowa suitcase she had been traveling with had been broken by the Transportation Security Administration.

She hopes her work can be a bridge between two very different concepts of fashion. For a designer who describes herself as the “Lady Gaga of modest fashion,” her line includes vibrant colors and lighthearted use of Arabic script.

“Most people, when they suffer the setbacks in their industry or life, they move on,” said Selim Mambetov, her husband. “They don’t go back and start from nothing like she has. And not only that, she has been able to jump even higher than before.”

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Wanda Young, member of Motown’s The Marvelettes, dies at 78 Free Press wire report

DETROIT Wanda Young, a member of Motown’s chart-topping The Marvelettes, died Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2021, in suburban Detroit. She was 78.

Meta Ventress said that her mother died in Garden City, Mich., of complications of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD. As a teenager, Ms. Young joined The Marvelettes just after they signed with Motown Records, as they were working on the song that would make them stars, “Please Mr. Postman.” Ms. Young sang backup vocals on the track, which became the first No. 1 pop hit for Berry Gordy Jr’s Motown Records in 1961.

The all-female group was signed by Motown to its Tamla label earlier that year and included Georgeanna Tillman,

Gladys Horton, Katherine Anderson and Juanita Cowart, according to the Motown Museum.

The teens were students at Inkster High School outside Detroit, and along with Georgia Dobbins, a graduate, were members of a singing group called The Casinyets.

Ms. Young replaced Ms. Dobbins when Mr. Gordy signed the group.

Songs like “Twistin’ Postman,” “Playboy” and “Too Many Fish In The Sea” followed Ms. Young “Please Mr. Postman.”

Ms. Young went on to sing lead vocals on several of The Marvelettes’ singles, including the million-selling “Don’t Mess with Bill” as well as “I’ll Keep Holding On,” “The Hunter Gets

Captured by the Game” and more.

“I told her constantly, ‘All these people love you,’ ” her daughter told the New York Times. “And she’d say, ‘Wow.’ She didn’t wake up every day thinking of The Marvelettes, but she never lost that glamour,” Ms. Ventress added.

The Motown Museum posted on its Facebook page that Ms. Young “helped The Marvelettes become one of the many success stories at Motown Records.”

After The Marvelettes disbanded in the early 1970s, Ms. Young recorded under another label.

Ms. Young and Ms. Horton sang on the 1990 album “The Marvelettes: Now!” according to the Times.

In addition to Ms. Ventress, Ms. Young is survived by children Robert Rogers III and Bobbae Rogers; seven grandchildren; a great-grandson; four sisters and four brothers.

bell hooks, writer and groundbreaking feminist thinker, dies at 69 Free Press wire report

NEW YORK bell hooks, the groundbreaking author, educator and activist whose explorations of how race, gender, economics and politics intertwined helped shape academic and popular debates over the past 40 years, died Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2021.

She was 69.

In a statement issued through William Morrow Publishers, Dr. hooks’ family announced that she died in Berea, Ky., home to the bell hooks center at Berea College. Her close friend, Dr. Linda Strong-Leek, said she had been ill for a long time.

“She was a giant, no nonsense person who lived by her own rules, and spoke her own truth in a time when Black people, and women especially, did not feel empowered to do that,” Dr. Strong-Leek, a former provost of Berea Col-

lege, wrote in an email to The as “Black Is ... Black Ain’t” Associated Press. “It was a and “Hillbilly.” privilege to know her, and the Rejecting the isolation of world is a lesser place today feminism, civil rights and because she is gone. There will economics into separate fields, never be another bell she was a believer hooks.” in community and Starting in the connectivity and how 1970s, Dr. hooks was racism, sexism and a profound presence economic disparity in the classroom and reinforced each othon the page. She drew er. Among her most upon professional famous expressions scholarship and perwas her definition of sonal history as she feminism, which she completed dozens of called “a movement bell hooks books that influenced to end sexism, sexist countless peers and helped exploitation and oppression.” provide a framework for current Ibram X. Kendi, Roxane debates about race, class and Gay, Tressie McMillan Cottom feminism. Her notable works and others mourned Dr. hooks. included “Ain’t I a Woman? Author Saeed Jones noted that Black Women and Feminism,” her death came just a week after “Feminist Theory: From Margin the loss of the celebrated Black to Center” and “All About Love: author and critic Greg Tate. “It all New Visions.” She also wrote feels so pointed,” he tweeted. poetry and children’s stories and Dr. hooks’ honors included appeared in such documentaries an American Book Award from

the Before Columbus Foundation, which champions diversity in literature. She taught at numerous schools, including Yale University, Oberlin College and City College of New York.

She joined the Berea College faculty in 2004 and a decade later founded the center named for her, where “many and varied expressions of difference can thrive.” One former student at Yale, the author Min Jin Lee, would write in The New York Times in 2019 that in Dr. hooks’ classroom, “everything felt so intense and crackling like the way the air can feel heavy before a long-awaited rain.”

Dr. hooks was born Gloria Jean Watkins in 1952 in the segregated town of Hopkinsville, Ky., and later gave herself the pen name bell hooks in honor of her maternal great-grandmother, while also spelling the words in lower case to establish her own identity and way of

NBA, HBCU legend Sam Jones dies at 88

By Fred Jeter

HBCU and Boston Celtics legend Sam Jones died Thursday, Dec. 30, 2021, at his home in Florida. Mr. Jones was 88.

From Wilmington, N.C., Mr. Jones earned All-American honors at North Carolina College at Durham before the school’s name changed in 1969 to North Carolina Central University.

A 6-foot-4 guard known for his signature bank shot, Mr. Jones was the first round, eighth overall pick by Boston in 1957.

Teaming with such greats as Bill Russell, Bob Cousy, K.C. Jones (no relation), John Havlicek, Tom Heinsohn and Satch Sanders, Mr. Jones was part of 10 NBA championship teams between 1959 and 1969.

As a key component in one of pro basketball’s best-ever dynasties, Mr. Jones scored 15,411 points (average of 17.7 points per game) while adding 4,305 rebounds (4.9 per game) and 2,209 assists (2.5 per game). He also was known as a relentless defender on the perimeter.

Mr. Jones’ No. 24 jersey was retired in 1969 while he was still an active player. He scored 24 points, matching

his number in his final NBA game in 1969, at age 36.

He was a fivetime NBA All-Star and was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1984. He was Mr. Jones named to the NBA’s 25th, 50th and 75th Anniversary All-Time Teams.

Mr. Jones earned multiple AllCIAA honors and was a consensus small-college All-American.

That was enough for famed Celtics Coach Red Auerbach to make him a first round draft choice—a rare honor for an HBCU athlete at the time.

Few Celtics fans had ever heard of North Carolina College at Durham, but they quickly grew to know and cheer

Sam Jones.

In 2015, then-North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory presented Mr. Jones with The Order of the Long Leaf Pine Award.

If Mr. Jones wasn’t the greatest HBCU basketball star of all time, he was close.

Others in contention for that honor might be Willis Reed (Grambling State University), Earl Monroe (WinstonSalem State University), Bob Dandridge (Norfolk State University), Zelmo Beaty (Prairie View A&M University), Bob Love (Southern University), Dick Barnett (Tennessee State University) and Ben Wallace (Virginia Union University).

In looking for a “best ever” tiebreaker, Sam Jones won 10 NBA championships, and that’s hard to top.

thinking. She loved reading from an early age, remembering how books gave her “visions of new worlds” that forced her out of her “comfort zones.”

Her early influences ranged from James Baldwin and fellow Kentucky author Wendell Berry to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. “Martin Luther King was my teacher for understanding the importance of beloved community. He had a profound awareness that the people involved in oppressive institutions will not change from the logics and practices of domination without engagement with those who are striving for a better way,” she said in an interview that ran in Appalachian Heritage in 2012.

She majored in English at Stanford University and earned a master’s in English from the University of Wisconsin and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Cruz.

In the 1970s, at the height of the second wave feminism, Dr. hooks — “this bold young black female from rural Kentucky” — felt apart from the movement and its “white and female comrades.” She was still in college when she began writing “Ain’t I a Woman,” named for a speech by Sojourner Truth

and a now-canonical look at how the “devaluation of black womanhood occurred as a result of the sexual exploitation of black women during slavery.”

During the following decades, Dr. hooks examined how stereotypes influence everything from music and movies (“the oppositional gaze”) to love, writing in “All About Love” that “much of what we were taught about the nature of love makes no sense when applied to daily life.” She also documented at length the collective identity and past of Black people in rural Kentucky, a part of the state often depicted as largely white and homogeneous.

“We chart our lives by everything we remember from the mundane moment to the majestic. We know ourselves through the art and act of remembering,” she wrote in “Belonging: A Culture of Place,” published in 2009.

“I pay tribute to the past as a resource that can serve as a foundation for us to revision and renew our commitment to the present, to making a world where all people can live fully and well, where everyone, can belong.”

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1408 W. Leigh Street · Richmond, Va. 23220 (804) 358—6403

Dr. Alonza L. Lawrence, Pastor

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Good Shepherd Baptist Church 1127 North 28th St., Richmond, VA 23223 s Office: (804) 644-1402 Dr. Sylvester T. Smith, Pastor “There’s A Place for You”

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2901 Mechanicsville Turnpike, Richmond, VA 23223 (804) 648-2472 ~ www.mmbcrva.org Dr. Price London Davis, Senior Pastor

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Legal Notices/Employment Opportunities City of Richmond, Virginia CITY COUNCIL PUBLIC NOTICE Notice is hereby given that the City of Richmond Planning Commission has scheduled a public hearing, open to all interested citizens, on Tuesday, January 18, 2022 at 1:30 p.m. and the Council of the City of Richmond has scheduled a public hearing on Monday, January 24, 2022 at 6:00 p.m. in the Council Chamber on the Second Floor of City Hall, located at 900 East Broad Street, Richmond, Virginia, to consider the following ordinances: Ordinance No. 2021-357 To close, to public travel, an unimproved portion of Hanover Avenue in the block bounded by Three Chopt Road and the City’s corporate boundary with Henrico County, consisting of 6,219± square feet, and to designate and incorporate such portion of Hanover Avenue into Bandy Field Park.

Ordinance No. 2021-358 To vacate, pursuant to Va. Code §15.2-2272(2), that part of the Staffordshire Section-5 subdivision plat that reserved 3021 Falcon Road for recreation, upon certain terms and conditions. The City’s Richmond 300 Master Plan designates these parcels as Residential.

Primary Uses: Singlefamily houses, accessory dwelling units, and open space. Secondary Uses: Duplexes and small multifamily buildings (typically 3-10 units), institutional, and cultural. Secondary uses may be found along major streets. This ordinance was initially presented at the October 4, 2021, City Planning Commission meeting.

The applicant has withdrawn the previous request and is seeking approval with a newly written ordinance.

Ordinance No. 2021-359 To amend and reordain O rd. N o . 2 0 1 0 - 1 0 0 83, adopted May 10, 2010, which authorized the special use of the property known as 200214 East Leigh Street for the purpose of a multifamily residential use with up to eight (8) dwelling units in an existing carriage house building with the commercial use requirement waived and to authorize the construction of a mixed-use building containing commercial uses and up to sixtythree (63) dwelling units, upon certain terms and conditions. The property is situated in the B-2 Community Business D i s t r i c t . T h e C i t y ’s Richmond 300 Master Plan designates a future land use for the subject property as Neighborhood Mixed-Use. Primary Uses: Single-family homes, accessory dwelling units, duplexes, small multi-family buildings (typically 3-10 units) and open space. Secondary Uses: Large multi-family buildings (10+ units), r e t a i l / o ff i c e / p e r s o n a l service, institutional, cultural and government.

The proposed density is approximately 95 units per acre.

Ordinance No. 2021-360 To authorize the special use of the property known as 3300 Broad Rock Boulevard for the purpose of a farmer’s market, upon certain terms and conditions, and to repeal Ord. No. 99-370-00-9, adopted on January 10, 2000, and Ord. No. 99-50-55, adopted on March 8, 1999.

The property is situated in the B-2 Community Business District. The City’s Richmond 300 Master Plan designates a future land use for the subject property as Community Mixed-Use. Primary Uses: Retail/ office/personal service, multi-family residential, cultural, and open space.

Secondary Uses: Single family houses, institutional and government.

Ordinance No. 2021-361 To authorize the special use of the property known as 4300 Commerce Road for the purpose of an off-premises sign, upon certain terms and conditions. The property is situated in the M-2 Heavy Industrial District.

The City’s Richmond 300 Master Plan designates a future land use for the subject property as Industrial. Primary Uses: Industrial and open space.

Secondary Uses: Retail/ office/personal service.

Ordinance No. 2021-362 To authorize the special use of the property known as 4508 Grove Avenue for the purpose of up to seven (7) single-family attached dwelling units with off-street parking and common area, upon certain terms and conditions. The properties are situated in an R-53 Multifamily Residential D i s t r i c t . T h e C i t y ’s Richmond 300 Master Plan designates a future land use for the subject Continued on next column

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property as Residential.

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

Secondary uses may be found along major streets.

The proposed density is approximately 31 units per acre.

Ordinance No. 2021-363 To authorize the special use of the property known as 1626 North 27th Street for the purpose of allowing a single-family detached dwelling. The property is situated in the R-5 SingleFamily Residential District.

The City’s Richmond 300 Master Plan designates a future land use for the subject property as Neighborhood MixedUse. Primary Uses: Single-family homes, accessory dwelling units, duplexes, small multi-family buildings (typically 3-10 units) and open space. Secondary Uses: Large multi-family buildings (10+ units), retail/ office/personal service, institutional, cultural and government.

Ordinance No. 2021-364 To authorize the special use of the property known as 2511 Porter Street for the purpose of allowing a two-family detached dwelling. The property is situated in the R-6 Single-Family Attached Residential District. The City’s Richmond 300 Master Plan designates a future land use for the subject property as Residential. Primary Uses include: Singlefamily houses, accessory dwelling units, and open space. Secondary Uses: Duplexes and small multi-family buildings (typically 3-10 units), institutional, and cultural.

Secondary uses may be found along major streets.

The proposed density is approximately 22 units per acre.

Ordinance No. 2021-365 To authorize the special use of the property known as 8 Rear South Plum Street for the purpose of a multi-family building, containing up to four dwelling units, upon certain terms and conditions. The properties are situated in an UB-PO3 Urban Business Parking Overlay District. The City’s Richmond 300 Master Plan designates a future land use for the subject property as Community Mixed Use. Primary Uses: Retail/office/personal service, multi-family residential, cultural, and open space. Secondary Uses: Single family houses, institutional, and government. The density of the proposed development is approximately 52 units per acre.

Ordinance No. 2021-366 To authorize the special use of the property known as 313 West 26th Street for the purpose of allowing a two family detached dwelling. The property is situated in the R-6 Single-Family Attached Residential District. The City’s Richmond 300 Master Plan designates a future land use for the subject property as Residential. Primary Uses include: Singlefamily houses, accessory dwelling units, and open space. Secondary Uses: Duplexes and small multi-family buildings (typically 3-10 units), institutional, and cultural.

Secondary uses may be found along major streets.

The proposed density is approximately 19 units per acre.

Ordinance No. 2021-367 To authorize the special use of the property known as 1000 Westover Hills Boulevard for the purpose of a residential use with up to six dormitory style units with shared sanitation facilities accessory to a church, upon certain terms and conditions.

The property is situated in the R-5 Single-Family Residential District. The City’s Richmond 300 Master Plan designates a future land use for the subject property as Residential. Primary Uses include: Singlefamily houses, accessory dwelling units, and open space. Secondary Uses: Duplexes and small multi-family buildings (typically 3-10 units), institutional, and cultural.

Secondary uses may be found along major streets.

The proposed density is approximately 2 units per acre.

Ordinance No. 2021-368 To rezone the property known as 6422 Forest Hill Avenue from the R-2 Single-Family Residential District to the R-4 SingleFamily Residential D i s t r i c t . T h e C i t y ’s Richmond 300 Master Plan designates these parcels as Residential.

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(typically 3-10 units), institutional, and cultural.

Secondary uses may be found along major streets.

The minimum lot size in the R-4 District is 7,500 square feet, whereas the minimum lot size in the R-2 District is 15,000 square feet.

Interested citizens who wish to speak will be given an opportunity to do so by following the instructions referenced in the January 24, 2022 Richmond City Council Formal meeting agenda. Copies of the full text of all ordinances are available by visiting the City Clerk’s page on the City’s Website at https:// www.rva.gov/office-cityclerk, and in the Office of the City Clerk, City Hall, 900 East Broad Street, Suite 200, Richmond, VA 23219, from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday.

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Divorce VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HENRICO MOHAMED S. MAHMOUD, Plaintiff v.

MINA BIAD, Defendant.

Case No.: CL21-7502-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit, brought by Mohamed S. Mahmoud, is a Complaint for Divorce.

It appearing from an affidavit that the Defendant, Mina Biad, is a nonresident individual; it is hereby ORDERED that the Defendant appear before this Court on or before the 7th day of February, 2022, to protect her interest herein.

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

JESSICA DAMERON, Defendant.

Case No.: CL21004026-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce from the bond of matrimony from the defendant on the ground of living separate and apart without any cohabitation and without interruption for a period exceeding twelve months.

It is ORDERED that the defendant, whose whereabouts are unknown, appear here on or before the 14th day of February, 2022 at 9:00 AM and protect his interests.

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

STEPHEN GRAY, Defendant.

Case No.: CL21004046-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce from the bond of matrimony from the defendant on the ground of living separate and apart without any cohabitation and without interruption for a period exceeding twelve months.

It is ORDERED that the defendant, whose whereabouts are unknown, appear here on or before the 14th day of February, 2022 at 9:00 AM and protect his interests.

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

DORIS MINOR, Defendant.

Case No.: CL21003939-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce from the bond of matrimony from the defendant on the ground of living separate and apart without any cohabitation and without interruption for a period exceeding twelve months.

It is ORDERED that the defendant, whose whereabouts are unknown, appear here on or before the 3rd day of February, 2022 at 9:00 AM and protect her interests.

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Plaintiff’s Attorney VSB# 27724 8460 Mount Eagle Road Ashland, VA 23005 (804) 798-9667 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER FATIH ONGEN, Plaintiff v.

FARNAZ KAMYAB, Defendant.

Case No.: CL21003938-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce from the bond of matrimony from the defendant on the ground of living separate and apart without any cohabitation and without interruption for a period exceeding twelve months.

It is ORDERED that the defendant, who is a non resident of the Commonwealth of Virginia, appear here on or before the 3rd day of February, 2022 at 9:00 AM and protect her interests.

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

CHRISTOPHER HARRIS, Defendant.

Case No.: CL21003959-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce from the bond of matrimony from the defendant on the ground of living separate and apart without any cohabitation and without interruption for a period exceeding twelve months.

It is ORDERED that the defendant, whose whereabouts are unknown, appear here on or before the 7th day of February, 2022 at 9:00 AM and protect his interests.

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

HARVEY TAYLOR, Defendant.

Case No.: CL21003970-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce from the bond of matrimony from the defendant on the ground of living separate and apart without any cohabitation and without interruption for a period exceeding twelve months.

It is ORDERED that the defendant, whose whereabouts are unknown, appear here on or before the 7th day of February, 2022 at 9:00 AM and protect his interests.

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

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of living separate and apart without any cohabitation and without interruption for a period exceeding twelve months.

It is ORDERED that the defendant, whose whereabouts are unknown, appear here on or before the 31st day of January, 2022 at 9:00 AM, and protect his interests.

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

CUSTODy VIRGINIA: IN THE JUVENILE AND DOMESTIC RELATIONS DISTRICT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND Commonwealth of Virginia, in re NIVEA JAZZMINE RAMSON RDSS v.

OLIVER DAVID RAMSON File No. J-98747-05-00-BEL ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to: Terminate the residual parental rights (“RPR”) of Oliver David R ams o n (Father), of Nivea Jazzmine Ramson, child DOB: 10/22/2007 “RPR” means all rights and responsibilities remaining with Parent after transfer of legal custody or guardianship of the person, including but not limited to rights of: Visitation; adoption consent; determination of religious affiliation; and responsibility for support and that:

It is ORDERED that the defendants Oliver David Ramson (Father), to appear at the above-named Court and protect his/her interest on or before 3/25/2022, at 9:20 AM, Courtroom #1 BEL VIRGINIA: IN THE JUVENILE AND DOMESTIC RELATIONS DISTRICT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND Commonwealth of Virginia, in re Brianna Iveth Claros Burgos, a juvenile, Karla Iveth Burgos De Ainaya, Plaintiff v.

Juan F. Claros Martinez, Defendant Case No. JJ100771-01-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION I, the undersigned applicant, state under oath that the object of this suit is to: Grant sole and legal custody of Brianna Iveth Claros Burgos pursuant to code 16.1-241, and that diligence has been used without effect to ascertain the location of the above-named person(s) to be served.

Soulmaz Taghavi, Esq. 1500 Forest Ave., Suite 124 Richmond, VA 23229 804-408-3522

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Office of the Circuit Court of Henrico County, Virginia in Deed Book 11, page 44.

W.B. Davis and the unknown heirs, devisees, and/or successors in title to W. B. Davis, may have an interest in the property by deed, by inheritance, or by duly recorded liens.

Affidavit having been made and filed that due diligence has been used without effect to ascertain the identities and/or locations of certain parties to be served, and that there are or may be persons whose names are unknown, interested in the subject matter of this suit;

It is ORDERED that W.B. Davis, et al., if then living or if dead, their heirs, devisees, assigns, or successors in title, and other unknown heirs or parties who have an interest in the subject matter of this suit, who are proceeded against as UNKNOWN HEIRS OF W.B. DAVIS and PARTIES UNKNOWN, appear before Court on or before February 28, 2022 at 9:00 a.m. to protect their interests, if any, in this suit.

I ask for this: Curtis D. Gordon, Esquire, V.S.B. # 25325 DANKOS, GORDON & TUCKER, P.C. 1360 E. Parham Road, Suite 200 Richmond, Virginia 23228 Telephone: (804) 377-7424 Facsimile: (804) 262-8088 Email: cgordon@dankosgordon.com Counsel for Plaintiffs

1-800-Pack-Rat (VA-Richmond-5471) 6601 S Laburnum Ave Richmond, VA 23231 877-774-1537 Notice of Sale Tenant

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