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“Voices from the Garden: The Virginia Women’s Monument” on Capitol Square has seven life-size bronze statues of noted Virginia women by New York-based artist Ivan Schwartz.

More than 1,500 people attended Monday’s ceremony in Capitol Square for the dedication of ‘Voices from the Garden: The Virginia Women’s Monument’

By Ronald E. Carrington

On a cloudy, yet cool fall Monday, Virginians celebrated women’s contributions to the advancement of the Commonwealth with the dedication of “Voices from the Garden: The Virginia Women’s Monument.”

More than 1,500 people attended the ceremony in Capitol

Square, where seven life-size statues of women leaders from diverse backgrounds and eras were unveiled.

When completed, the monument will have 12 statues.

The monument, the nation’s first on the grounds of any state capitol created to honor women, also features a curved glass Wall of Honor etched with the names of 230 women whose achievements and contributions have boosted Virginia and the

‘Something in the Water’ festival returning to Virginia Beach

By George Copeland Jr.

Virginia Beach native and music star Pharrell Williams is doing it again.

His “Something in the Water” music festival, which attracted thousands to the Virginia Beach oceanfront in April for performances by some of the biggest stars in the music industry, will take place again in 2020.

The upcoming event promises a week’s worth of programs dedicated to art, music and culture and an even more diverse musical slate.

Organizers announced on Monday that

“Something in the Water 2020” will run seven days — from Monday, April 20, through Sunday, April 26 — with three days of concerts Friday to Sunday prefaced by four days of programming featuring “the brightest minds from the culinary world, technology, environmental sustainability, health and wellness, media and more.”

A special presale of passes for Virginia residents and 2019 ticketholders will be held noon to 5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 19.

Three-day general admission passes are $150, while VIP passes are $500.

During the presale, passes are available for purchase in-person and with no

Social Security benefits to increase by 1.6% in 2020

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

Retirees in Richmond and across the country might have a little more money in their pockets come January.

The Social Security Administration has announced that its pension and disability payments will rise 1.6 percent, or $16 on a current $1,000 check, beginning with the first payments in 2020.

The cost-of-living increase, which is based on inflation that largely remains in check, was the same in 2019, officials said.

Social Security check amounts also will be impacted by any increase in Medicare premiums for 2020, which have not yet been announced, officials said.

Overall, 63 million Social Security recipients and 8 million blind, disabled or impoverished elderly recipients of Supplemental Security Income will be affected, Social Security officials noted.

In January, Social Security also will begin collecting tax on a higher level of earnings. This year, the tax to support Social Security and the Medicare health insurance program is being applied to the first $132,900 of earned income. That will increase to $137,700 in 2020, the agency stated.

Currently, the combined Social Security-Medicare tax is 15.3 percent for self-employed people. Those who work for others pay 7.65 percent, with the employer paying a similar percentage.

The actual Social Security tax is 6.2 percent, with the rest going to support Medicare.

United States dating back to the 17th century.

Mary Margaret Whipple, vice chair of the Women’s Monument Commission, said the monument honors women in a way that is not mythic or symbolic.

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Questions swirl about state NAACP’s relationship with Dominion Energy

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

Is the Virginia State Conference NAACP starting to cozy up to Dominion Energy fees at the Veterans United Home Loans after more than two years of attacking the Amphitheater box office, 3550 Cellar utility company’s push to construct a natural Door Way, in Virginia Beach. Passes gas pipeline? also may be purchased online at www.

That question is reverberating after the somethinginthewater.com. state civil rights group announced that it The inaugural festival showcased a wide would “proudly” co-host a public symposium Mr. Barnette variety of musical, educational, artistic and on 400 years of African-American history in activist talent recruited by Mr. Williams Virginia with the energy giant on Thursday, Oct. 31, as a lead-in from his experiences around the globe. to the NAACP’s 84th state convention set for Friday, Nov. 1, to Details: www.somethinginthewater.com Sunday, Nov. 3, at a Henrico County hotel.

While critics are blasting this new connection with Dominion as undermining the civil rights group’s pipeline position, interim state NAACP President Robert N. Barnette Jr. rejected the complaints, noting on Wednesday that the symposium and the group’s pipeline position are “entirely separate matters.”

While he said he understood why some might think otherwise, he insisted that the state NAACP has not and will not back off its opposition to the company’s development of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline or to the Dominion plan to build a large compressor in the historically African-American community of Union Hill that could cause environmental damage.

Mr. Barnette called it typical for the state NAACP to accept sponsorships and donations from major companies despite sharp policy disagreements.

Regina H. Boone/Richmond Free Press “We have other corporate sponsors besides Dominion,” Kennedy Wright, 9, holds a sign protesting Columbus Day during a rally at the Columbus he said, citing Wells Fargo statue in Byrd Park on Monday. The protest, led by members of the Cultural Roots among others.

Homeschool Co-op, also urged removal of the statue that is situated at the south “If need be, we’ll use Doend of Arthur Ashe Boulevard. The protest was on Monday, Oct. 14, which had been minion’s contribution to pay designated by Richmond Mayor Levar M. Stoney as Indigenous Peoples’ Day to honor the for legal action against it,” contributions native people who were displaced and destroyed as a result of European he said. invasion by people such as Christopher Columbus. The home school cooperative has a The state NAACP remains curriculum that emphasizes the black diaspora including Caribbean, Central and South/ Pharrell Williams

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City awarded $20,000 grant for new financial literacy program

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

A national group plans to assist Richmond City Treasurer Nichole Richardson Armstead and City Hall in creating a center to provide professional one-on-one financial counseling to low- and moderate-income city residents, it was announced Wednesday.

According to the announcement, the Cities for Financial Empowerment Fund, selected Richmond as one of the cities to duplicate its model program to boost financial literacy now in planning or underway in 26 other localities.

The fund is to provide initial funding and technical support to enable Richmond to set up a financial empowerment center to offer the service at no charge.

Ms. Armstead, who was in New York to receiving training on the program, told the Free Press on Wednesday that the CFE Fund awarded the city a $20,000 grant.

Other details are still unknown, including when the program might launch and the amount of funding the city might need to provide.

In a news release from her office announcing the award, Ms. Armstead stated, “It has been my commitment to provide financial literacy opportunities to our communities, and with free one-on-one financial counseling for low-income residents, we (will be) providing tangible resources to empower all residents of our city.”

Mayor Levar M. Stoney, in the news release, announced his support for the project that he stated would help Richmond’s efforts “to build an equitable economy. This opportunity for one-on-one counseling will give residents the power to make informed choices.”

Since her election in 2017, Ms. Richardson has created an advisory board to consider ways to increase financial literacy efforts.

She also held an inaugural financial literacy fair in April.

According to the news release, Richmond has committed to setting up a model center where professional trained counselors would assist families to budget, pay down debt, increase savings and build credit.

According to the CFE Fund, the center also would integrate counseling in other areas, including housing, foreclosure prevention, workforce training, domestic violence and similar areas, to help eliminate other barriers.

The release states that the financial center model was initiated in New York in 2008 under Mayor Michael Bloomburg. With support from four national banks and Bloomburg Philanthropies, the CFE Fund has spread the idea and reports that existing centers have helped nearly 100,000 clients reduce their individual debt by $137 million and increase their savings.

Richmond was one of six communities the CFE Fund selected in the 2019 round in its continuing effort to expand the program.

Banks’ Coin Laundry in Jackson Ward closes

Banks’ Coin Laundry has closed after more than 80 years in Jackson Ward following the Sept. 19 death of the owner, Arlington R. Banks, 81.

Roxie B. Lyons, Mr. Banks’sister and executor of his estate, ended operations on Friday, Oct. 11, and issued notice that the property at 419 Brook Road would be sold, per Mr. Banks’ wishes.

Originally started in the 300 block of Brook Road in the 1930s, the business moved to the current location, a former blacksmith shop, after World War II. Mr. Banks was the son of the business’ founder, Robert Banks Jr., and co-managed the coin laundry and dry cleaning business with his father until his father’s death in 2001. — JEREMY M. LAZARUS

Corrections City data does not show cigarette sales in Richmond have dropped by 60 percent since a new 50-cent-a-pack cigarette tax went into effect July 1.

An article, “Profits up in smoke as city merchants report hefty sales slumps since start of city cigarette tax,” published on the front page of the Oct. 10-12 edition of the Free Press, reported an inaccurate percentage. The report was based on revenue collections from the tax found in the monthly financial reports City Hall has issued since the 2019-20 fiscal year began on July 1.

The July report showed $770,000 was collected from the new cigarette tax, while the August report showed $307,000 had been collected, a 60 percent decline.

However, city Finance Director John B. Wack notified the Free Press on Tuesday that the July revenue was inflated by retailer purchases of tax stamps for unsold packs of cigarettes they bought prior to July 1.

That is called a “floor tax,” Mr. Wack stated, and brought in extra revenue for the city from the cigarette tax, although the impact of the floor tax was not mentioned in either the July or the August report.

Mr. Wack stated in an email to the Free Press that from June through July 2, the city collected $527,180 from the sale of cigarette tax stamps, primarily from retailers buying the stamps to place on their previously purchased inventory.

He stated that revenue collections from the cigarette tax were $242,835 from July 3 to July 31; $307,116 from Aug. 1 through Aug. 31; and $288,040 from Sept. 1 through Sept. 30.

While essentially flat, the tax collection numbers offer no insight into whether sales of cigarettes across the city have actually dropped compared to sales during the same month in 2018 when there was no tax.

Information on whether the cigarette tax has had any impact on total retail sales is still unavailable.

The Free Press also incorrectly reported the cigarette tax was put in place to raise $3.5 million in new revenue. The correct figure is $3.05 million. The city needs to collect an average of $254,167 per month from the cigarette tax to generate that amount.

The Free Press regrets the errors.

 The Friends of East End Cemetery, the nonprofit group that won a $25,000 grant last month from the State Farm Neighborhood Assistance Program for a new oral history project in conjunction with its preservation efforts with the historic cemetery, is led by board president Mark Schmieder.

Brian Palmer is one of seven founders of Friends of East End Cemetery and previously served as the organization’s president.

His title and the spelling of his wife’s name, Erin Hollaway Palmer, another of the founders, were incorrect in an article published in the Free Press Oct. 10-12 edition.

Additionally, the organization’s public celebration of the grant will be held 2 to 5 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 2, at the cemetery, 50 Evergreen Road. The article incorrectly stated that cleanup activities would be held in the morning.

The Free Press regrets the errors.

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Rocks typically covered by the rushing waters show. More rain on Wednesday also provided of the James River are now visible because of relief, but experts indicate it will take regular low water levels. This view of the river, taken rain to make up the deficit in moisture that has Tuesday evening near the Manchester Bridge, Slices of life and scenes developed. Some areas of the state are reportis emblematic of the severe drought that has edly seven inches below normal rainfall levels. in Richmond gripped much of Virginia in the past two months.

Concerned about the river that is a main source The river has dropped below four feet in height and its flow is of drinking water for the Richmond area, city and county public below normal, according to the U.S. Geological Survey, which utility departments are urging area residents to take voluntary monitors the James River. The rain last Sunday was welcome, conservation efforts, including reducing watering lawns and but its impact had dissipated within two days, the USGS data washing vehicles.

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Sturm drops out of City Council race

By George Copeland Jr.

The race to replace Richmond City Councilmember Parker C. Agelasto got a little tighter last week when Graham Sturm ended his candidacy in the 5th District contest.

Mr. Sturm, who dropped out of the race on Oct. 11, endorsed fellow candidate Stephanie Lynch. Seven candidates now remain in the contest, which will be decided by voters in the district during the Nov. 5 election.

News of Mr. Sturm’s departure came from a Facebook post on Ms. Lynch’s campaign page, which included a statement detailing Mr. Sturm’s reasons behind his choice of endorsement in a crowded field full of what he wrote “are all good people … in this for the right reason.”

“Stephanie has proven she is the best person for the job,” Mr. Sturm’s statement reads, pointing to Ms. Lynch’s experience as a social worker and citing an ability to

hear and recognize the concerns of the public as qualities that stand out among the remaining candidates.

In the statement and a separate post on his own campaign page, Mr. Sturm, a teacher at Richmond’s Armstrong High School, said that his campaign goal to “push the conversation towards education” had been met through his run for City Council, which focused on equity in school rezoning and rebuilding Richmond schools.

Now, he wrote, “is the time for us all to get behind a candidate who can deliver solutions.”

“I have seen first hand the challenges that Richmond faces, and I believe that Stephanie knows how to solve those challenges,” Mr. Sturm wrote. “At the outset I promised responsive leadership, and I know that you will get that with Stephanie Lynch.”

Ms. Lynch wrote in a statement posted to accompany Mr. Sturm’s remarks, “I am truly humbled that (Mr. Sturm) has

chosen to stand with me as his 5th District candidate in this race. I am looking forward to working with Graham and all the RPS teachers, School Board members, families and community members who understand our most critical investment for the economic health of this city is in our public education system.”

In addition to Ms. Lynch, candidates vying for the 5th District seat are community organizer Nicholas Da Silva; Jer’Mykeal McCoy, president of the Urban League of Greater Richmond Young Professionals; the Rev. Robin D. Mines of Hood Temple A.M.E. Zion Church; former 5th District Councilman Henry W. “Chuck” Richardson; former Richmond School Board member and RPS teacher Mamie L. Taylor; and University of Richmond professor Thaddeus “Thad” Williamson.

The winner of the election will serve out the remainder of Mr. Agelasto’s term on City Council through December 2020.

City Council approves use of Giles Center for winter overflow shelter

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

Homeless people once again will find shelter on bitter cold days at the Annie Giles Community Resource Center in Shockoe Valley, if they can get there.

Richmond City Council voted Monday to allow the use of the building at 1400 Oliver Hill Way as the overflow shelter when outdoor temperatures at night are forecast to be 40 degrees or lower.

The council was to have voted last month, but held up approval to ensure the shelter would not be used permanently as an overflow shelter.

Instead, the ordinance that was approved included wording that allows the center to be used as a shelter only for the 2019-20 fiscal year, leaving the onus on the administration to find a more permanent location elsewhere.

Sixth District Councilwoman Ellen F. Robertson, whose district includes the center, has sought a better solution so the community center could once again offer

other programming. She won support to limit the use to one year.

However, since last winter when Mayor Levar M. Stoney moved the city’s overflow cold weather shelter from the former Public Safety Building near City Hall as part of his effort to push the Navy Hill redevelopment in that area, no permanent site has been found.

The administration and nonprofit groups have been looking for nearly five years for a better location, but have had no success.

Ms. Robertson opposed a plan by Commonwealth Catholic Charities, with Mayor Stoney’s support, to relocate the shelter to a former church in the Manchester neighborhood after neighbors in a South Side portion of the 6th District strongly objected.

Meanwhile, 3rd District Councilman Chris A. Hilbert has publicly stated he would oppose the Salvation Army’s plan to buy and renovate a former church at Chamberlayne Avenue and School Street

for new offices and a shelter operation.

He said that residents and businesses in the area would not support using that space as the city’s overflow shelter for the homeless.

Despite calls for a new location, none of the City Council members have come forward to suggest the city’s winter weather shelter would be welcome in their district, strongly suggesting that the Giles Center may remain the only choice in years to come.

The Giles Center, which sits across from the Richmond Justice Center, is not easy to reach without transportation. The center is located at the base of some of Richmond’s steeper hills. While the long walk to get there is downhill, people face a steep, uphill climb to get to the central business district and services that are mostly located Downtown.

Last winter, several people who needed shelter told the Free Press they were physically unable to get to the Giles Center and chose, instead, to sleep behind church buildings in Downtown.

VCU Health System offers relief to certain patients with overdue bills

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

The VCU Health System, Virginia Commonwealth University’s medical arm, is taking steps to ease the financial stress on thousands of patients and their families struggling to pay their VCU hospital and doctors’ bills.

Beginning Nov. 1, the health care system will eliminate any amounts due that insurance does not cover for patients with incomes under 200 percent of the poverty line. That is roughly $25,000 for an individual and $51,500 for a family of four.

In addition, VCU Health will eliminate 50 percent of the remaining medical debt of patients with slightly higher incomes at or below 300 percent of poverty, about $37,000 for an individual and $77,250 for a family of four.

As part of the policy overhaul, VCU Health’s various arms, including doctors, dentists and a South Hill hospital subsidiary, stopped going to court in September to seek judgments, garnish wages or place liens on property of people who had not paid their hospital and medical bills.

VCU Health stated that its main health operation, the MCV Medical Center, quit using court action years ago and that now the policy is being applied to all elements of its operation that bill separately, such as the VCU Health Associated Physicians.

The changes are important in a country where medical bills are among the biggest drivers of bankruptcy filings for individuals and families.

“We realized over a year ago that our financial assistance policy had not changed to meet the needs our patients, in particular with the rise of high-deductible health plans,” Laura Rossacher, VCU Health’s spokeswoman, stated.

“As a safety-net organization, we include affordability in our vision,” she continued.

“When it comes to someone’s overall health, socioeconomic and behavioral factors matters six times more than clinical care. We want to help our patients and families maintain their financial health and not negatively influence their overall health.”

VCU Health has not released any estimates on the number of patients who would be affected or the potential amount of debt the hospital system projects it

might write off.

Even though VCU Health will not use the court system, it will continue collection efforts, officials said, including sending letters and calling patients in seeking work with them, reporting debts to credit bureaus or assigning the debt to a collection agency.

The two major private hospital systems in the Richmond area, HCA and Bon Secours, have not announced that they would match VCU’s new policies.

The policy changes continue VCU’s efforts to be affordable, Ms. Rossacher said.

VCU Health has long gained additional state funding to pay the full cost of the care for individuals and families with few assets and annual incomes at or below the poverty line, Ms. Rossacher said.

In addition, she said VCU Health also has provided discounts on medical bills for people with incomes up to 400 percent of the federal poverty level and for those who self pay or pay promptly.

“These are just the next steps in our effort to ensure that our patients get the best care possible,” she said.

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Throngs of people walk around the Virginia Women’s Monument in Capitol Square following Monday’s dedication ceremony. In addition to the bronze statues, the monument has a curved glass Wall of Honor etched with the names of 230 outstanding Virginia women who made contributions to the state and nation during the last 400 years.

More than 1,500 people attended Monday’s ceremony in Capitol Square for the dedication of ‘Voices from the Garden: The Virginia Women’s Monument’ Continued from A1

Feeling the spirit of the moment, Teddy Parham of Richmond responds to singer Joyce Johnson Rouse’s musical tribute “Standing on the Shoulders” during the ceremony. Below, relatives of Virginia Estelle Randolph, a noted educator in Henrico County who was named the first Jeanes Foundation Supervising Industrial Teacher in the United States, stand around her bronze statue after Monday’s ceremony. They are, from left, Henrietta McMickens of Richmond, Ms. Randolph’s great-niece; Nelson Randolph Lawson of Richmond, Ms. Randolph’s adopted nephew; and Willie Dean Jr. of Schenectady, N.Y., Ms. Randolph’s great-great-nephew; and Michael Davis of Richmond, Ms. Randolph’s great-great-great-nephew.

achievements,” Ms. Whipple told the crowd. “They were from all walks of life, from different times and places. They were famous and obscure. Real women. Even imperfect women, who have shaped the history of this Commonwealth.”

The Virginia General Assembly established the commission in 2010 to recommend an appropriate monument in Capitol Square to honor the contributions of women to Virginia over the past 400 years.

The dedication, held on Indigenous Peoples’ Day, also coincides with the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage in America.

As the sun broke through the clouds just before noon, Girl Scouts from three councils in Virginia pulled back the blue cloths that draped the statues, revealing the dramatic bronzes sculpted

by New York-based artist Ivan Schwartz.

The seven statues are of Cockacoeske, Pamunkey chieftain; Anne Burras Laydon, a Jamestown colonist; Mary Draper Ingles, frontierswoman; Elizabeth Keckly, Mary Todd Lincoln’s seamstress and confidante; Laura Copenhaver, textile industry entrepreneur; Virginia Randolph, educator; and Adèle Clark, suffragist and artist.

Susan Clarke Schaar, clerk of the Virginia Senate, spoke about the decade-long process for the design and realization of the monument. She worked with historians and others on the design.

“No pedestals, no weapons, no horses,” Ms. Schaar said.

“They wanted it to be approachable. They wanted it to be warm and welcoming. And they wanted to convey a sense of consensus building. And they wanted young women and young men to know that they could do anything they wanted to do with their lives.”

Gov. Ralph S. Northam thanked the commission for steering the project and raising the more than $800,000 to make the monument a reality.

He said the monument is long overdue.

“For far too long we have overlooked the transformative contributions of women and other underrepresented groups,” Gov. Northam told the crowd. “Until recently, that has been the case on Capitol Square as well.”

Capitol Square also is home to the Virginia Civil Rights Memorial, which was erected in 2008, and “Mantle,” a monument dedicated to Virginia’s Indian tribes, in 2018.

“Our work does not end with these bronze statues and etched names in these walls,” Gov. Northam told the crowd. “To honor these women, we must make sure women are paid at the same level as men, protect women’s health care rights as well as eliminate domestic violence and sexual assault.”

Richmond-based historian and researcher Elvatrice Belsches, who has done extensive research on Virginia Randolph and Elizabeth Keckly who are African-American, was touched by the occasion.

“It is an enormous blessing to be here today to witness this unveiling,” Ms. Belsches said. “To see these ladies, whose achievements are internationally known, get their just do is priceless.”

Five more statues will be added as they are funded and completed. They are Maggie L. Walker, the first woman to found and operate a bank in the nation, and Dr. Sarah Garland Jones, a pioneering Richmond physician and teacher, both of whom are African-American; Martha Custis Washington, America’s inaugural first lady; Clementina Bird Rind, the first female printer in Virginia; and Sally Tompkins, a Confederate hospital administrator.

Susan Shibut of the Capital News Service contributed to this report.

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under the supervision of the national NAACP office, which also opposes the pipeline. And its representative, Gloria Sweet-Love of Tennessee, also would have to approve the symposium.

She could not immediately be reached for comment.

But that is not satisfying critics, who worry about the NAACP accepting a $50,000 donation from Dominion that will underwrite the symposium titled, “And Yet We Rise,” an accompanying reception and other elements of the convention.

To them, the state NAACP is undermining its position and undercutting alliances with other groups opposed to the pipeline.

In an email obtained by the Free Press, Phillip J. Thompson, who serves on the state NAACP

board, noted that the executive committee never approved holding a joint program with Dominion Energy, which he called a violation of the NAACP bylaws.

“Dominion Energy has been creating havoc in black communities statewide,” alleged Mr. Thompson, former president of the Loudoun County Branch NAACP. “Now we have the so-called pre-eminent civil rights organization in the state bootlicking up to the company.”

Mr. Thompson stated that the partnership with Dominion followed the decision to “summarily remove” the chair of the state NAACP Political Action Committee, Jesse Frierson of Richmond, for joining with other organizations to host a statewide tour to allow Virginians to comment and propose actions on issues involving health, education and public safety.

Mr. Barnette also has received emails from other concerned members, including one the Free Press obtained that was signed by Tiffany Pryce of Fairfax, a member of the state NAACP Environmental and Climate Justice Committee.

Ms. Pryce decried the decision to co-host the symposium with Dominion as “appalling, shameful and completely counterproductive to the NAACP’s purported commitment to environmental justice and civil rights.”

She alleged that Dominion and state elected officials “to whom Dominion has donated hundreds of thousands of dollars are trying to erase and distract from the environmental injustice impacts” of placing the Atlantic Coast’s giant fracked-gas compressor in the Union Hill community that was founded by free slaves. She said the pipeline “would expose residents to

constant noise and toxic pollution. It is extremely disconcerting to see Dominion’s strategy has co-opted the NAACP.” She also described the link with Dominion at odds with a legal brief the NAACP filed in federal court with other civil rights and faithbased groups in joining a challenge to the compressor station.

“This event should be cancelled, Dominion’s donation should be returned and an apology should be released to explain why the decision to co-sponsor an event with Dominion was deemed acceptable and how the state NAACP will regain trust and credibility,” Ms. Pryce wrote.

A state NAACP flier states the symposium will feature representatives from the Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia and the Maggie L. Walker National Historic Site in Richmond.

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Bateau marker unveiled Dr. Arvat McLain and Dr. Harry Watkins unveil the state historical marker honoring the James River bateaumen last Saturday at 301 Virginia St. near the Kanawha Canal Turning Basin in Shockoe Slip. Long, flat-bottomed boats known as bateaux transported tobacco, coal and other goods between Richmond and points west from the 1770s through the mid-1800s. The bateaux often were piloted through the canal and along the James River by crews of free or enslaved African-Americans. Dr. McLain and Dr. Watkins, owners of a coffee and wine bar named “Bateau� on the canal walk, sponsored the sign. Attendees salute the occasion, above, which include speakers state Sen. Jennifer McClellan and Delegate Betsy Carr, both of Richmond; Mayor Levar M. Stoney; Richmond City Council President Cynthia I. Newbille; Julie V. Langan, director of the state Department of Historic Resources; and Sandra Norman of the Virginia Department of Transportation.

Policy Pathways to host Fall Celebration and Fundraiser Oct. 24

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

Richmond Delegate Delores L. McQuinn and five students will be honored next week at the debut of a new nonprofit organized to enable young people of color to understand and become involved in shaping public policy.

State Secretary of Education Atif Qarni is to deliver the keynote address at the Policy Pathways Inc.’s Fall Celebration and Fundraiser on Thursday, Oct. 24, at the Claude G. Perkins Living and Learning Center at Virginia Union University. A reception starts at 5:30 p.m. followed by a program from 6 to 7:30 p.m. that radio personality Sheilah Belle will emcee.

Delegate McQuinn, a member of the Policy Pathways board, will be honored for her role in shaping public policy in the General Assembly, said Dr. D. Pulane Lucas, founder and president of the board and a business professor at J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College.

The student honorees include Carson MauriceJames Chavis, an athlete and musician at Virginia State University, who has overcome disabilities, been engaged in a wide range of church and community service activities and is now studying for a career in mechanical engineering.

Four Richmond high school students also will be honored: Myasia Goode of Open High School, who has been engaged in ending food deserts; Jaymesha Richardson of Thomas Jefferson

High School, who plays on the basketball and volleyball teams, founded the Croc Club at the school and maintains a 4.7 GPA; Corey Stuckey of George Wythe High School, who serves on the Superintendent’s Advisory Council and the school’s student council, plays in the marching band, is a member of the debate club and is on the basketball and track teams; and Israel Torres-Costellaos of Huguenot High School, an award-winning cadet command sergeant-major in the school’s JROTC program.

The event is open to the public, but registration is requested at Policypathways.rsvpify.com.

The program is aimed at introducing Policy Pathways and its plan to host the Summer Academy for Policy Leadership and Public Service, a two-week boot camp for high school and college students seeking to learn about public policy formation, and year-round enrichment programs on public policy in Richmond and other public schools.

Dr. Lucas said she came up with idea after seeing too few African-Americans and Latinos participating at conferences and meetings that help shape policies on education, health, safety and other areas.

She said she found others who also were concerned, including Dr. Ted Ritter, dean of the VUU School of Arts and Sciences; Dr. Delta Bowers, a VUU business professor and former interim dean of the VUU School of Business;

and Beverly B. Davis, an executive with Davis Brothers Construction Co. “We’re seeing more activism among young people,� Dr. Lucas said in citing groups like Black Lives Matter. She sees the programs the nonprofit will offer as helping to equip young people with the tools of the public policy trade, including the benefits of research and the use of statistics and other data to enable them to make their policy

case in the public arena.

Dr. Lucas said the nine-member board also wants to play a role in ending the disparity in the selection of gifted and talented students for special attention. She said that too often African-American and Latino students are overlooked, and her group plans to be involved in advocating for change.

Details: (804) 814-7197 or info@policypathways.org.

RPS halts tough absence policy

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

A new policy requiring Richmond students to be marked absent for the day if they arrive more than 80 minutes after the start of classes without a written excuse is being abandoned.

Harry Hughes, chief academic officer for Richmond Public Schools, notified principals on Tuesday to stop following the attendance policy he imposed Aug. 30 and re-emphasized in an Oct. 2 email.

In an Oct. 15 email obtained by the Free Press, Mr. Hughes acknowledged that his attempt to

stiffen attendance requirements did not comply with state law. “I did not realize that the Virginia State Code states that an unexcused absence is defined as a student being absent for the entirety of a day,� he wrote to principals.

Questions about Mr. Hughes’ imposition of the policy change without approval of the Richmond School Board were raised at the board’s Oct. 7 meeting.

The administration indicated then the policy change would be dropped and notified the board that corrections to student attendance logs would need to

be made at a few schools.

However, the policy appears to have remained in force until Mr. Hughes issued the formal notice that it was no longer in effect.

In his email, Mr. Hughes noted that he issued the tougher attendance policy as “guidance� based on a statement in the School Board-approved policy manual: “The School Board believes that for students to benefit from instruction, the student (sic) must be present at the time instruction is scheduled to start and remain in school for the entirety of the day.�

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October 17-19, 2019

Changing the landscape We were delighted with the unveiling and dedication this week of “Voices from the Garden: The Virginia Women’s Monument” in Capitol Square.

Roughly 10 years in the making, the monument features life-size bronze statues of seven women whose contributions have helped shape the Commonwealth during the past 400 years. It also includes a Wall of Honor inscribed with the names of 230 notable women.

While the Women’s Monument Commission is still raising money to complete the installation — five additional bronze statues, including ones of Richmond businesswoman Maggie L. Walker and trailblazing physician Dr. Sarah Garland Jones, are to be added — we are encouraged by the very visible changes in Capitol Square.

The Capitol, located in the heart of Downtown, is not only the seat of government in Virginia. It also is a historic landmark, with exhibits, paintings and photos within the building and the statuary within and on the surrounding Capitol grounds telling the story of who we are as Virginians and the highlights — and lowlights — of our history.

But since the 1850s when the cornerstone of the equestrian statue of Virginian George Washington was laid in this public square, visitors would come away thinking that only white men played a pivotal role in shaping our Commonwealth.

Apparently, it took a young girl, Eliza Warner, the youngest daughter of then-Gov. Mark R. Warner, to point out this myopic and exclusionary practice. On a walk in January 2002 outside her new home at the Executive Mansion in Capitol Square, Eliza reportedly looked at the statues of all the men and asked her mother, “Where is Rosa Parks?”

The youngster realized there were no statues honoring women and none from the Civil Rights Movement.

Nor, we point out, were there any statues honoring people of color.

It got her mother, First Lady Lisa Collis, the wife of new Gov. Warner, thinking. Ms. Collis began brainstorming with others about how to fill that gap.

We find it both fascinating and telling that that important moment, sparked by the wisdom of a child, eventually led to the Virginia Civil Rights Memorial being placed on Capitol Square in 2008. That monument features young civil rights activist Barbara Johns, the 16-year-old who led a student walkout at the Robert Russa Moton School in Prince Edward County in 1951 to protest deplorable conditions stemming from the lack of resources being put into her all-black public school. A resulting lawsuit became part of the famous U.S. Supreme Court Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954 outlawing racially separate and unequal public schools in the nation. NAACP lawyers in the case, Richmond’s Oliver W. Hill Sr. and Spottswood W. Robinson III, also are depicted on the monument.

We are pleased that efforts to tell a more complete story of Virginia at Capitol Square didn’t end there. In April 2018, “Mantle,” a monument honoring Virginia’s first inhabitants, Native Americans, was unveiled on Capitol Square.

On Monday, Virginia took another step forward with “Voices from the Garden: The Virginia Women’s Monument.” Of the seven bronze statues unveiled, three are of women of color — pioneering educator Virginia Randolph of Henrico County, who developed a nationally recognized approach to vocational learning; Elizabeth Keckly of Dinwiddie, an enslaved woman who bought her freedom as a dress designer, including for First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln in the White House, and who organized a relief program for freed slaves and black soldiers during the Civil War; and Cockacoeske, the first female chief of the Pamunkey Indians who united tribes, ended the war with the English through the Treaty of 1677 and accepted a reservation for the Pamunkey.

We point out that, unlike what has been proposed for Monument Avenue’s line of statues honoring vanquished Confederates, Capitol Square now has real change. That change wasn’t about just adding signs, but purposefully changing the landscape to tell a more complete story of Virginia.

Adding new statues and monuments dedicated to the diverse heroes and sheroes in Virginia will give the thousands of schoolchildren and visitors who walk through Capitol Square an instantly visible and sharper picture of the array of people who have shaped our state and its history.

That is important as we go forward from this 400th anniversary of the first enslaved Africans and recognizing the pivotal role women played in establishing the Virginia colony.

We also understand and respect the concerns voiced by many people that when the women’s monument is complete, it will include a bronze statue of slave owner Martha Dandridge Custis Washington, wife of George Washington, who also owned and kept at Mount Vernon her enslaved half-sister, Ann Dandridge; and one of Confederate Capt. Sally Tompkins, who was known as “the angel of the Confederacy.” Capt.

Tompkins started and ran a hospital in Richmond that treated wounded soldiers during the Civil War. We believe that other more notable women from those eras could have been chosen to be immortalized in bronze. However, with fundraising continuing in order to complete the monument, perhaps adjustments can be made and more suitable figures can be depicted.

In the meantime, we hope Virginians will take the time to visit Capitol Square and see the changes and feel proud.

Dreadful in Texas We are dismayed by news out of Fort Worth, Texas, that Atatiana Jefferson, a 28-year-old African-American woman babysitting her nephew in her own home, was shot and killed by a police officer as she stood near a window.

The tragic events unfolded just days after a jury in nearby Dallas convicted a white former police officer in that city of walking into the apartment of Botham Jean, a 26-year-old African-American accountant, and shooting and killing him because she mistakenly thought it was her apartment and that he was a burglar.

The proliferation across the nation of police officers shooting and killing black people has instilled fear and mistrust of law enforcement within the African-American community. Initially it was “Driving While Black” or “Walking While Black.” These two incidents now take those fears to a higher level with the reality that one can be killed simply for “Being in Your Own Home While Black.”

We join the Jefferson and Jean families, the NAACP and other civil rights organizations in calling for independent investigations into both situations, including the sudden shooting death of Joshua Brown, a key witness in the Botham Jean case who was poised to testify in the Jean family’s wrongful death civil suit against the City of Dallas.

We believe justice must prevail. We were bolstered by the charge of murder placed against the Fort Worth officer who resigned from his job on Monday. We also were bolstered by the jury in the Dallas case sentencing former officer Amber Guyger to 10 years in prison for Botham Jean’s murder.

Police officers in departments and agencies across the country must understand that they will be held accountable for their actions. But law enforcement agencies’ policies and practices concerning use of force also must be reviewed and overhauled and racial bias — implicit or explicit — must be rooted out.

We renew our call for the Richmond Police Department to establish an independent citizens review board to investigate any and all police shootings and to handle complaints from the public. This should be done before Richmond is involved in a police shooting like those in Dallas and Fort Worth and public sentiment forces Richmond City Council to put such a board in place.

Communities must be assured that full, fair, transparent and independent investigations will be carried out in order to stop the erosion of public trust that such devastating and dreadful events as Dallas and Fort Worth have brought.

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Suspend use of biased facial recognition technology It’s no secret that Amazon has been promoting DIY (Do It Yourself) surveillance products to consumers, such as its very own smart doorbell, Ring. But what Amazon shoppers and most everyday Americans are just starting to find out is that the real target customers for these surveillance tools are police departments and other law enforcement agencies — something that should have every person of color worried.

The little we know about Amazon’s surveillance technology is not good. Amazon’s Rekognition, the cloud-based software platform that was launched in 2016 and which has been sold and used by a number of U.S. government agencies, including U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, has been demonstrated to have racial and gender bias. Hacks into the system also have raised serious privacy concerns.

States’ attorneys general, as the lead law enforcement officials within the 50 states, must suspend any partnerships with Amazon

until we have more information, particularly with regard to how these technologies could impact communities of color.

Amazon has become a lightning rod for criticism. Dozens of social advocacy groups, including Human Rights Watch, Color of Change and Data for Black Lives, have sounded the alarm

Hazel Trice Edney over the consequences of allowing Amazon’s surveillance tools to wrongfully target groups that advocate for justice for people of color and others. Last year, Amazon Rekognition falsely matched 28 members of Congress with criminal mugshots, disproportionally representing people of color.

Without identifying a specific company, NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson recently called facial recognition technology “a scary proposition.” Mr. Johnson was responding to questions from veteran journalist Dr. Barbara Reynolds during Richard Prince’s recent Journalism Roundtable. Dr. Reynolds expressed concern over technology “so flawed” that it doesn’t even properly represent the faces of black people.

Mr. Johnson noted that the

NAACP has had ongoing discussions on the topic with the committees of Homeland Security in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate.

“We’re in the middle of conversations with cyber experts so that we can have a very clear policy approach dealing with not only facial recognition, but all of the technology and how it can be used in our community against us,” he said.

Meanwhile, researchers from Google, Facebook and Microsoft have all urged Amazon to stop selling Rekognition software to law enforcement, citing study after study that show the company’s surveillance tools simply cannot be trusted.

And what has Amazon done to address these serious allegations about racial profiling from its surveillance tools? Quietly tell law enforcement officials not to use the words “surveillance” when talking about Amazon products in public.

It is overwhelmingly clear that Amazon’s facial recognition technology is not only deeply flawed, but has the grave potential to magnify our worst racial biases if we continue to allow it to dictate policing.

Amazon’s Neighbors application similarly has put black

people and other people of color at unfair risk of being targeted by law enforcement officials.

Earlier this year, one review found that neighborhood watch groups using Ring footage disproportionately accused people of color of suspicious activity under the guise of law and order. Moreover, these videos frequently are accompanied by racist and verbally abusive language, demonstrating the threats these technologies pose.

Giving incredibly invasive tools like Neighbors or Rekognition a greater role in our justice systems poses a threat to anyone who wants to walk the streets without the fear of being tracked and falsely targeted.

We must protect our communities of color before Amazon’s dangerous surveillance technologies become fully entrenched in our criminal justice system.

The writer is an award-winning journalist who is president and CEO of Trice Edney Communications in Washington.

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End blockade of funds for HBCUs Each year as families beam with pride at seeing a son, daughter or another relative graduate from college, that achievement is nearly always the result of a family’s commitment to higher education. And when these institutions are among more than 100 Historically Black Colleges and Universities, that pride is magnified by the history of how our forefathers overcame what once seemed to be insurmountable challenges.

Between 1861 and 1900, more than 90 HBCUs were founded, according to data from the National Museum of African American History and Culture. From the first HBCU, Pennsylvania’s Cheney University, established in 1837, ensuing years led to even more educational opportunities that today include institutions spread across 19 states, the District of Columbia and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

So when federal legislation is blocked that would extend and preserve funding for HBCUs, such actions are not only an affront to today’s college students, but also an affront to a history that has led to only 3 percent of the nation’s colleges and universities educating nearly 20 percent of all black graduates. The success of HBCU graduates is even more noteworthy considering that 70 percent of students come from low-income families.

On Sept. 26, the damaging action taken by U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, blocked HBCU funding. Even

worse, Sen. Alexander made this move just days before funding was set to expire on Sept. 30.

The bill, sponsored and introduced on May 2 by Sen. Doug Jones of Alabama and co-sponsored by Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, was named the FUTURE Act, an acronym for Fostering Undergraduate

Charlene Crowell Talent by Unlocking Resources Act. It began with bipartisan and bicameral support to extend critical HBCU and other minority-serving institutions’ funding through 2021 for science, technology, engineering and mathematics education.

By Sept. 18, 15 senators signed on as co-sponsors, including eight Republicans representing Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Dakota and West Virginia. Democratic senators signing on represent Arizona, California, Connecticut, Minnesota, Montana, Virginia and West Virginia.

On the House side, U.S. Reps.

Alma Adams and Mark Walker of North Carolina introduced that chamber’s version that quickly passed in just two days before Sen. Alexander’s actions on the Senate floor.

Why would the Senate committee chair oppose a bill that had such balanced support in both chambers as well as geographically and by party?

“Congress has the time to do this,” Sen. Alexander said on the Senate floor. “While the legislation expires at the end of September, the U.S. Department of Education has sent a letter assuring Congress that there is enough funding for the program to continue through the next fiscal year.”

Sen. Alexander concluded remarks by pushing for policy proposals that would amend the Higher Education Act piece by piece, which raised a more basic question: Why is it that Congress has failed to reauthorize the Higher Education Act for so many years?

Competing HEA proposals have been bandied about since 2014. Most of these ideas were variations of promises for improved access, affordability and accountability, simplified financial aid applications and appropriate levels of federal support for higher education. Yet for families faced with a financial tug of war between rising costs of college and stagnant incomes, Congress’ failure to act on higher education translates into more student loans and longer years of repayment.

Dr. Wil del Pilar, vice president of higher education at The Education Trust, a national nonprofit that works to close opportunity gaps that disproportionately affect students of color and students from low-income families, reacted to Sen. Alexander blocking the measure.

“The reauthorization of the Higher Education Act is of vital importance to millions of students who currently struggle to afford college, lack adequate supports while enrolled and are underserved by a system that perpetuates racial inequity,” Dr. Del Pilar said. “Students need a federal policy overhaul that addresses these issues and acts to close racial and socioeconomic equity gaps, and they can’t afford to wait any longer.”

Sen. Alexander, here’s hoping you are listening.

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October 17-19, 2019

Letter to the Editor

No more monuments to slave owners and Confederates

On Monday, the Commonwealth of Virginia took another absurd step toward creating another space in Richmond to celebrate slave owners and Confederates.

The Virginia Capitol Foundation expressed its intent to place statutes of women that owned slaves and worked to ensure that the enslaved would never be free on Capitol Square alongside statues of women who were enslaved and took great strides to free themselves from bondage and go on to do great things in the Commonwealth.

When asked about this effort, Gov. Ralph S. Northam, who has had his own issues with race this year, through a spokesman made a rather vague and unassertive statement.

We had hoped that the governor would have made a strong statement condemning the utter travesty of having Confederates and slave owners seemingly walking hand in hand with the formerly enslaved as if gender were some sort of modern cure all for white supremacy, racism and brutality.

This Commonwealth continues to metaphorically fall down, bump its head and wake up with some sort of collective amnesia over its

past. Fairy tales are still being spun about Virginiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s past.

Even worse, many people believed this foolishness, like for instance the one that Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings had some sort of consensual, but complicated relationship, when in reality this relationship could only be defined as sexual assault.

Virginia needs to understand that rape, torture, murder, infanticide and ethnic cleansing were a very real and a very large part of this Commonwealthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s history. Virginians need to stop patronizing their past and those who carried out the atrocities.

These acts were committed by terrible people and no amount

of white-washing can change that fact.

That Virginia has reached some sort of equilibrium on at least the harsher aspects of white supremacy and race has only been witnessed over the last few decades.

Hopefully the next time our governor talks about statues of slave owners and Confederates, he will say what needs to be said very loudly and very clearly â&#x20AC;&#x201D; that this is wrong! The apologists and sympathizers can continue to sell it or even try to spin it around gender, but we are never going to buy it.

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VUU heads into homecoming with 62-0 win over Lincoln Virginia Union University has the potential to turn this weekend’s homecoming into showtime.

Coach Alvin Parker’s Panthers are revved up and rocking while visiting Chowan University, the opponent for the homecoming game Saturday, Oct. 19, is limping to Richmond with a leaky defense.

VUU is primed for the game with a 62-0 rout last Saturday of Lincoln University in Pennsylvania.

The Panthers are 5-1, with four straight victories, and very much in contention for All CIAA and NCAA Division II honors.

In the last two weeks, the Panthers have devoured Livingstone College and Lincoln University by a combined 106-0.

Meanwhile, Chowan University is Charles Hall IV, Tabyus Taylor and Jefferson Souza 1-5 and coming off a 64-17 loss last Saturday at Bowie State University in In terms of total offense, the Panthers have led their opponents Maryland.

2,170 yards to 1,593.

VUU has talent aplenty to display for its Those numbers are likely to bulge even more following the alumni and homecoming crowd at Hovey matinee date with Chowan University on Saturday.

Coach Parker Field.

The visitors from Murfreesboro, N.C., have allowed 130 Panthers quarterback Khalid Morris passed for 257 yards at points the past two weeks in losses to Fayetteville State and Lincoln, with four touchdowns, all to dynamic receiver Charles Bowie State universities.

Hall.

Chowan’s senior quarterback, Bryce Witt from Dinwiddie, Hall, a sophomore from Trenton, N.J., leads the CIAA with has thrown for 14 touchdowns but he has been intercepted 11 25 catches for nine touchdowns and an impressive 26.2 yards times. Witt will face a relentless VUU pass rush. per grab.

One negative note for VUU: Standout safety Sterling HamVUU travels best by land with bullish Tabyus Taylor. The mond did not play at Lincoln because of unspecified reasons. junior from Hopewell had 92 yards rushing and two touchdowns It would be a monumental upset if VUU doesn’t easily handle against Lincoln.

Chowan at homecoming.

The Panthers also feature place kicker Then on Saturday, Oct. 26, the CIAA Jefferson Souza, who leads the CIAA in Northern Division title could be decided scoring with 13 field goals and 21 extra when the Panthers travel to Maryland to Northern Division standings points. face defending champion Bowie State

CIAA Overall This has been a dominant season at University.

Bowie State University 3-0 6-0 VUU under Coach Parker, now in his The Panthers will close their regular second year. season Saturday, Nov. 2, at Hovey Field Virginia State University 3-0 5-1 The Panthers opened with a take-notice against Elizabeth City State University Virginia Union University 3-0 5-1 victory at Hampton University of the FCS. and then finish on Saturday, Nov. 9, at Elizabeth City State University 1-2 1-5 The team’s lone loss came in week two to Virginia State University.

Chowan University 0-3 1-5 undefeated NCAA Division II juggernaut The CIAA championship game is Lenoir-Rhyne University. set for Saturday, Nov. 16, in Salem, a Lincoln University of Penn.

0-3 0-6 Overall this season, VUU has outdestination for which the Panthers have scored the opposition 202 points to 79. never qualified previously.

Homecomings galore on Saturday, Oct. 19 VS.

Virginia Union University plays Chowan University at Hovey Field in Richmond.

Kickoff: 1 p.m.; game to be broadcast on WNTW, 92.7 FM radio.

VS.

Virginia State University plays Bowie State University at Rogers Stadium in Ettrick. Kickoff: 1:30 p.m.; game to be broadcast on WVST, 91.3 FM radio.

VSU to meet CIAA champ Bowie State in Saturday’s homecoming Virginia State University has won five straight games with a relatively soft schedule.

On Saturday, Oct. 19, easy street ends.

The path to victory will become more difficult with the arrival of Bowie State University as VSU’s homecoming opponent.

The Trojans’ five-game winning streak was forged against opponents with a combined 9-21 record.

The most recent triumph for Coach Reggie Barlow’s squad was a 54-21 rout of host Elizabeth City State University last Saturday.

In order, VSU has manhandled the University of North Carolina-Pembroke 35-16; St. Augustine’s University 34-7; Johnson C. Smith University 31-15; Shaw University Coach Barlow 35-0; and now ECSU 54-21.

Bowie State won’t be so easily kicked to the curb.

The Bulldogs come to Ettrick with a 6-0 record and the title of defending CIAA champion. The Bulldogs warmed up for VSU with a 64-17 win last Saturday over Chowan University.

To send its alumni and supporters off to the parties smiling, VSU will need to play its best football this season. That means plenty of production from dual-threat quarterback Cordelral Cook and his flock of receivers, plus continued success from a strong supply of running backs.

VSU has been the CIAA’s most dominant running team thus

far with 1,695 yards overall and a 5.7 per carry rushing.

Opening eyes of late has been 175-pound freshman speedster Donavan Goode. The fleet newcomer ran for 96 yards against Elizabeth City with touchdown blasts of 75 yards and 5 yards.

Goode set the state private schools record for the 55-meter dash at Trinity Episcopal School in Richmond and originally enrolled at Coastal Carolina University to run track.

He transferred to VSU for the opportunity to resume football. He is the son of former VSU All-CIAA defensive back Ed Goode Jr. Bowie State has been the CIAA’s most consistent team in recent years, thanks largely to the heroics of record-setting passer Donavan Goode Amir Hall.

With Hall graduating, the Bulldogs haven’t lost their rhythm with quarterback Ja’rome Johnson.

The junior from Washington transferred to Bowie State from the University of Virginia at Wise. Thus far, he has passed for 617 yards and nine touchdowns and run for 569 yards and another eight touchdowns.

Bowie State, which is showing no post-Hill hangover, has outscored its six opponents by a combined 243-91.

VSU hopes to return to the CIAA championship game on Saturday, Nov. 16, in Salem. Beating Bowie State would provide an ample nudge in that direction.

Marijan Murat/dpa via Associated Press

U.S. gymnast Simone Biles shows off the five gold medals she won at the Gymnastics World Championships in Stuttgart, Germany, making her the world’s most decorated gymnast with a cumulative 25 medals.

Gymnast Simone Biles breaks medal record with 25 Free Press wire report

Stuttgart, Germany American Simone Biles became the most decorated gymnast in world championship history Sunday when she won the beam and floor finals to take her career tally to 25 medals.

Soon after securing a convincing victory on the beam at the FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Championships in Stuttgart to overtake Belarusian Vitaly Scherbo’s record of 23 world medals, the 22-year-old Biles successfully defended her floor title to win medal number 25.

The four-time Olympic champion is now the owner of 19 gold medals across four championships against 12 for Scherbo, who competed in five world events between 1991 and 1996.

Making her final appearance of the week in front of a raucous crowd, Biles wasted no time as she landed a superb triple-twisting double back flip — known as the Biles II — on her first pass.

Biles’ double layout with a half turn — another skill named after her — put her out of bounds for a 0.1 penalty, but she did enough to post a winning score of 15.133.

“Honestly, I just couldn’t move. I was so tired,” Biles said of her final pose on the stage.

“This is really the best worlds performance I have ever put out.”

The Americans took a one-two finish as Sunisa Lee finished with 14.133 for the silver medal, while Russian Angelina Melnikova came in third.

Earlier, Biles delivered a polished routine on the beam before a full twisting double tuck dismount for an impressive 15.066.

Although Biles had twice before won the world beam title in 2014 and 2015, it has not always been smooth sailing for her on the apparatus.

Her slip on the landing of a front tucked somersault at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro meant she had to settle for a bronze medal in the event.

Last year, she dropped off the beam during the women’s all-around final at the world championships.

But she has regained her swagger this week, under the watchful eyes of balance beam Coach Cecile Landi, and posted top scores in all four attempts — qualifying, the team and allaround finals and Sunday’s apparatus final.

“It meant a lot because Cecile has really been working on bringing my confidence back up to where it used to be on the beam,” Biles said.

“To go out there and nail the routine just like I do in practice, it felt really good and I knew she was really proud,” Biles said.

As another title-winning score was announced in the arena, Biles punched the air in jubilation before joining celebrations with the U.S. team.

“I was really excited,” she added. “I thought it was going to be at least 14.8, 14.9, but to see 15, I was like well that’s pretty crazy, so I was very proud.”

Last year’s winner, Liu Tingting of China, took the silver medal with 14.433, while Li Shijia, also of China, won the bronze medal.

Biles finished her campaign in Stuttgart with five gold medals from six events to mark ideal preparations for next year’s Olympics in Tokyo.

Her barnstorming run included a record fifth all-around gold, an individual vault title, as well as helping the United States to a fifth straight world team title.

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Personality: Wendi White Spotlight on co-chair of AKA’s ‘Sauté & Sizzle: Richmond Men Are Cooking’ fundraiser Wendi White wears many different hats.

She’s preparing for her wedding in 2020 and managing the life of a 5-year old who has just started kindergarten.

She juggles her full-time job at Rolls-Royce in Prince George County with grad school studies at James Madison University.

And right now, she’s serving the Rho Eta Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority as the Fundraising Committee cochair of its 13th Annual “Sauté and Sizzle: Richmond Men Are Cooking” fundraiser.

The event, which hosts an average of 800 attendees every year, was the creation of former Rho Eta Omega Presidents Sadá Hill and Karen Hicks, who were inspired by a visit to the “Philly Men are Cooking” event in 1996 to establish a similar fundraiser in Virginia’s capital city, one that draws in a public eager for good food and generates money for good causes.

Thirty-five men who cook, including Derrick Thomas of The Thomas Law Firm, retired accountant Dwain O’Neal, Dominion Energy’s Jason Holland and Prince George County schoolteacher Celvin Richardson, are set to showcase their culinary skills with a suite of dishes ranging from shrimp and pasta to pulled pork, crab dip, meatballs and chili for those in attendance to dine on and vote on. The fundraiser also will feature a silent auction, line dancing and music by DJ King Tutt.

For Ms. White, who joined AKA in 2007 while attending North Carolina A&T State University and has served in multiple leadership roles since joining Rho Eta Omega Chapter in 2013, the experience with

this year’s fundraiser has been smooth sailing.

In addition to juggling her professional and personal responsibilities, Sauté and Sizzle requires Ms. White to balance television appearances, advertisement rollouts, booking entertainment and publicity and ticket management.

Ms. White cites the efforts of two other co-chairs, Fran Randall for the sponsorship and chef subcommittees and Kiera Lee with logistics and decorations, keeping the work efficient and transparent, as each operates in “a lane that we’re strong in.”

The community involvement, to Ms. White, is a key differentiator for Sauté and Sizzle from other Rho Eta Omega fundraisers, and a factor that’s key to the success of the $17,000 fundraising goal set for this year’s event.

The proceeds of this event will support Richmond high school students through scholarships and give back to the community through five international programs the sorority supports, including HBCU For Life: A Call to Action, Women’s Healthcare and Wellness, and Global Impact.

Last year’s fundraiser collected $38,000 in donations before expenses, an amount that speaks to the sorority’s strong connection to the Metro Richmond community.

“I think what draws a lot of people to Sauté and Sizzle is the fact that they know that we give out $17,000 in scholarships every year, and it’s going back into the community,” Ms. White says.

“It’s just an overall good time.”

Meet this week’s Personality, who has a full plate fundrais-

Want to go?

What: 13th Annual “Sauté & Sizzle: Richmond Men Are Cooking,” a tasty fundraiser to benefit scholarships and programs of the Rho Eta Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority.

When: 7:08 p.m. to 11:08 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 2.

Where: Old Dominion Building, Richmond Raceway, 600 E. Laburnum Ave. Tickets: $40.

Details and tickets: www.sauteandsizzle.eventbrite. com.

Information: fundraising@reoaka.org.

ing for the 13th Annual “Saute & Sizzle: Richmond Men Are Cooking,” Wendi White: Occupation: Financial analyst at Rolls-Royce in Prince George County.

No. 1 volunteer position: Fundraising committee co-chair of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Rho Eta Omega Chapter’s “Sauté and Sizzle.”

Date and place of birth: Aug. 11 in California.

Current residence: North Chesterfield.

Alma maters: North Carolina A&T State University, bachelor’s in accounting, 2009; and James Madison University, MBA in information security, expected in December 2019.

Family: Engaged to Josh and a 5-year-old son, Blake, who keeps me on my toes with all of his energy. He just started kindergarten.

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Special thanks to all our volunteers, vendors & organizations that make this event possible!

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“Sauté & Sizzle: Richmond Men Are Cooking:” Former Rho Eta Omega Presidents Sadá Hill and Karen Hicks, who attended the Philly Men Are Cooking event.

They were impressed with the event and presented the idea to the members of Rho Eta Omega as a fundraiser in 1996. It has become our annual signature fundraising event.

Sauté & Sizzle past winners: Rev. Earl Bledsoe (smoked pork chops); Martin Lewis (pasta delight); Marcel Wilson (London broil and cabbage); Donnie Oliver (white chicken chili); Jameel Staten (steak and more); and Marc Rene (chicken and rice).

What dishes will be served: There will be crab dip, hot sausage with cheese on a roll, shrimp and pasta, pulled pork, meatballs and chili. Desserts will include sweet potato pie and peach cobbler.

Serving size: 2-ounce portions.

Relevance of sororities and fraternities: The Divine Nine Historically Black Sororities and Fraternities are relevant because they do so much more than just having a presence at the college level. It extends to the graduate level and allows

sororities and fraternities to give back to the communities they live in. Community service, health awareness, mentoring youths and civic involvement are examples of areas in which the sororities and fraternities are involved. The Divine Nine continue to have a strong relationship with the AfricanAmerican community and will continue to be relevant.

Event fundraising goal: We have a fundraising goal of $17,000 to provide local high school students with scholarships and give back to the local community that we serve through our international programs, including Global Impact; HBCU For Life: A Call To Action; The Arts!; Building Your Economic Legacy; and Women’s Healthcare and Wellness.

How I start the day: I start my day around 5 a.m. or 6 a.m., pray and then look at my Google calendar to see what I have planned for the day.

Quality I admire most in another person: Transparency.

Three words that best describe me: Direct, trustworthy and reliable.

Something I love to do that most people would never imagine: I love to unwind and

have nothing planned for the day but laying around the house.

Believe it are not, the days I don’t have anything planned are reset days for me.

If I could wave a magic wand, I would: Pay off my student loans. There is so much I could be doing with that money I pay each month.

I knew I was grown up when: I started having random conversations with strangers.

LOL. It’s a trait I picked up from my mom that I always picked with her about when I was younger.

Quote that inspires me: “Sky is the limit and you know that you can have what you want, be what you want.” – Christopher Wallace aka Biggie Smalls A perfect day for me: Being on vacation and exploring the area and learning about their culture. Also, lying out at a beach enjoying the sun and reading a good book.

Favorite meal: Crab fried rice and anything seafood.

How I unwind: Meditating 10 to 15 minutes and drinking a glass of wine.

Person who influenced me the most: My mother. She is a strong and independent woman who instilled values in me that I have used most of my life.

Book that influenced me the most: “The Secret” by Rhonda Byrne.

What I’m reading now: “Abundance” by Peter Diamandis.

Best thing my parents ever taught me: To be independent and to always know my selfworth.

My next goal: Finish planning my wedding that’s in May 2020.

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Happenings VUU President Lucas to be inaugurated during homecoming week

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Entertainer Queen Latifah engages the crowd of more than 1,000 people Tuesday as the host of the Women’s Achieve Summit at the Greater Richmond Convention Center.

Queen Latifah: A day of empowerment, with a ‘get out the vote’ message

By Aliviah Jones and Imani Thaniel Capital News Service

There was unity around one message in Richmond on Tuesday among a diverse crowd of more than 1,000 women: Empowerment.

From entertainer Queen Latifah to the first ladies of Virginia to a Native American chief, the Women’s Achieve Summit at the Greater Richmond Convention Center celebrated women’s achievements and explored how to continue reaching new frontiers.

Host Queen Latifah held court with interviewees, sharing anecdotes and laughs over the stories of challenges and triumphs. The summit was part of American Evolution 2019, a commemorative year of events highlighting pivotal moments that occurred in Virginia 400 years ago and continue to impact the nation. Ahead of the summit on Monday, the Virginia Women’s Monument was unveiled on Capitol Square, featuring seven statues honoring women from different parts of the commonwealth.

Retired astronaut and U.S. Navy Capt. Wendy Lawrence talked at the summit about growing into a leadership role, while also challenging the “false narrative” that women have to face things alone.

“I was possessed by a dream, so I absolutely know the power of having a dream,” she said.

Anne Richardson, chief of the Rappahannock Tribe, spoke about honoring ancestors who led the way, while working to usher in dreams — of how to find one’s “North Star.”

Dr. Deborah Jewell-Sherman, a former superintendent of Richmond Public Schools who now teaches at Harvard University, spoke alongside Irma Becerra, president of Arlington County-based Marymount University,

to touch on key issues women of color face in the education system, and why it is imperative to teach young people that college is accessible.

“Education is challenging,” Dr. Becerra said. “We need to be intentional with moving forward and moving along … It does take a village to instill that confidence.”

“I encourage all young people to get a well-rounded education because you never know where you may end up,” Virginia First Lady Pamela Northam said.

Along with personal stories of how to break glass ceilings, blaze trails and overcome obstacles was the idea of showing up.

Queen Latifah recalled first noticing voter apathy at her high school in Newark, N.J. — “People thinking that it’s no big deal, it doesn’t matter. But it does matter,” she said.

“People need to go back and take a look at a few pictures and see some people being sprayed with hoses and being bitten by dogs for their right to vote, and maybe it will spark something inside of them,” she said.

This isn’t the first time Queen Latifah has encouraged people to vote. In 2018, she partnered with Black Entertainment Television’s “Black Girls Rock!” to encourage voter registration. And on Sept.

24, which was designated National Voter Registration Day, she tweeted “Voting gives us a voice.”

U.S. Sen. Mark R. Warner spoke to Queen Latifah about how Virginia’s upcoming Nov. 5 election is imperative for women in regard to working for equal protections, especially with all 140 General Assembly seats up for election.

In the past two years, a record number of women have been elected to the Virginia General Assembly and to Congress.

Sen. Warner said the government

functions better with more women because women are “used to getting stuff done.”

In February, passage of the Equal Rights Amendment lost by one vote in the Virginia House of Delegates. With a couple more votes, legislators could pass the ERA, Sen. Warner said.

“You don’t have to go out and change 50 different delegates, although you can do that as well,” Sen. Warner said. “But if we switch a couple of the votes in the House and the Senate, Virginia could become the 38th state to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment.”

Queen Latifah said that voting is “ultimately our power,” and she can’t imagine giving that power away.

“I challenge any person that is about to be 18 … to register to vote,” she said.

“If you decide you don’t want to vote, then you don’t have to vote. But if you are not registered, you can’t vote.”

Queen Latifah will be among seven honorees to receive the W.E.B Du Bois Medal from Harvard University on Oct. 22 for their contributions to AfricanAmerican history and culture.

The award is presented by the university’s Hutchins Center for African and African American Research.

Other honorees include poet and educator Elizabeth Alexander; Lonnie Bunch III, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution; poet Rita Dove, Commonwealth professor at the University of Virginia; businesswoman Sheila Johnson, co-founder of Black Entertainment Television and chief executive officer of Salamander Hotels and Resorts that was started in Northern Virginia; artist Kerry James Marshall; and philanthropist Robert F. Smith, founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Vista Equity Partners, who announced at the Morehouse College commencement in May that he was paying off the college loans of the 2019 graduating class.

VMFA to host women’s empowerment forum this Saturday Jean Patterson Boone, publisher of the Richmond Free Press, will be among a host of women panelists speaking at “Ascend and Lead: A Women’s Empowerment Forum,” sponsored by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 19, at the museum, 200 N. Arthur Ashe Blvd.

The forum will include topics such as “The Struggle Is Real,” “Challenging Stereotypes, Setting a New Standard” and “Enacting Change.”

Mrs. Boone, who will be speaking on the panel “In the Black: The Business of Media,” will be joined by Karla Redditte, news anchor and reporter with WWBT NBC12, and Kelli Lemon, a social entrepreneur and consultant.

Other speakers during the daylong event will include state Sen. Jennifer McClellan of Richmond; Chief Lynette Allston,

chair of the Tribal Council of the Nottoway Tribe of Virginia; Kristen Cavallo, chief executive officer of The Martin Agency; Melody Barnes, co-director of The Democracy Initiative at the University of Virginia; Ting Xu, founder and chairman of the board of Evergreen Industries; and Nancy Rodrigues, deputy directory of the 2019 Commemoration American Evolution.

Mary Margaret Pettway, chair of the Souls Grown Deep Foundation and a third-generation member of the Gee’s Bend Quilters Collective, will be in conversation with Valerie Cassel Oliver, the VMFA’s Sydney and Frances Lewis Family Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, on “Quilting: From Pieces to a Whole.”

A box lunch is included in the ticket price of $20, or $15 for VMFA members.

Details and tickets: www.vmfa.museum or (804) 340-1400.

Civil rights activist Theresa A. Walker, widow of Dr. Wyatt Tee Walker, to speak on Oct. 26 panel Other panelists include University of Richmond Theresa Ann Walker, a civil rights activist and widow professor Dr. Corey D.B. Walker, who collaborates of Dr. Wyatt Tee Walker who led the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and was chief of staff to Dr. with campus and community partners on research, Martin Luther King Jr., will be featured at a panel, teaching, and public programming on UR’s recently “The Role of Women in the Civil Rights Movement: acquired collection of Dr. Walker’s papers; researcher The Chesterfield and Petersburg Experience,” at 7 p.m. and author Elvatrice Belsches; artist Joel Howard; and public historian Dr. Carmen F. Foster, moderator.

Saturday, Oct. 26, at the Chesterfield County Central A reception will be held at 6 p.m. The cost is $10, Library, 7051 Lucy Corr Blvd.

The event, sponsored by the Friends of Chesterfield which will benefit the Friends of Chesterfield County Mrs. Walker County Public Library, will focus on how women Public Library, played an unsung role for social justice and how their historical Registration is required for both events at chooseccpl@ work relates to current issues. chesterfield.gov or (804) 717-6696.

Virginia Union University is officially inaugurating Dr. Hakim J. Lucas, its 13th president and chief executive officer, at a ceremony at 10 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 17, at the Greater Richmond Convention Center in Downtown.

The ceremony comes during the university’s 2019 Homecoming Week.

Dr. Lucas, 42, has served as president of VUU since Sept.

1, 2017. Before coming to Richmond, Dr. Lucas served as vice president for institutional advancement at Bethune-Cookman University in Florida.

The formal inaugural ceremony will be followed by VUU President’s Suits & Jays Inaugural Soirée, at 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 17, at the Hippodrome Theater, 528 N. 2nd St., featuring Bilal, KeKe Wyatt, Backyard Band, DJ Lonnie B and Kelli Lemon.

Tickets are $65; $113 for VIP admission.

Other homecoming activities include a: Dr. Lucas • Black-owned Business Expo, 2 to 4 p.m. Friday, Oct. 18, at the Henderson Center; • Reunion Class Dinner and Soiree, 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, Oct. 18, at the Claude G. Perkins Living and Learning Center. Tickets $65 for alumni and friends; $40 for alumni in classes from 2004 to 2014; and free for 50th Golden Anniversary class members.

• VUU Homecoming Greek Step Show, 7 to 10 p.m. Friday, Oct. 18, at Barco-Stevens Hall. Tickets $15 in advance and $25 at the door; free for VUU students with I.D • 2019 Homecoming Gym Jam for students, 11 p.m. to 2 a.m. Friday, Oct. 18, Barco-Stevens Hall. Free for VUU students with I.D.; $10 for visiting college students with I.D. • Homecoming Parade, 8:30 to 10 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 19, on Lombardy Street.

• Tailgating, beginning at 9 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 19, at the Belgian Building Lawn and the Hovey Field lot.

• Homecoming football game against Chowan University at Hovey Field on Saturday, Oct. 19. Kickoff: 1 p.m.

• Concert on the Lawn, 4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 19.

Details: www.vuu.edu or (804) 257-5600.

2nd Annual RVA Booklovers’ Festival Oct. 19 More than 30 authors and literature aficionados will give readings and lead discussions at the 2nd Annual RVA Booklovers’ Festival 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 19, at Jefferson Park, 1921 Princess Anne Ave. in Church Hill.

Speakers include author and screenwriter LaKesa Cox; historical fiction author Louis Bayard; BookRiot Managing Editor Amanda Nelson; and author the Rev. Benjamin P. Campbell, pastor emeritus of Richmond Hill. The event also will feature open mic sessions and children’s book readings.

Other activities and food and beverage vendors will be available.

While the event is free, proceeds generated will be donated to The READ Center and ExCell, local organizations working to increase literacy in Richmond.

Brandylane Publishers Inc. is hosting the festival.

Details: www.rvabookloversfestival.com or (804) 644-3090.

Free Press photographer to speak on her quest to find her late grandfather Richmond Free Press photographer Regina H. Boone will speak Thursday, Oct. 24, about her quest to find out about her late grandfather who was imprisoned in a Japanese internment camp during World Ward II. Her talk, “A Vanished Dream: Wartime Story of My Japanese Grandfather,” will be from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at the Virginia Museum of History & Culture, 428 N. Arthur Ashe Blvd., and will follow a film on her search

by NHK-WORLD JAPAN, a Japanese international broadcast company that helped her unravel the mystery.

Ms. Boone was acting on a deathbed Ms. Boone request by her late father, Free Press founder and former publisher/editor Raymond H. Boone Sr., to find out what happened to his dad.

Miki Ebara, a foreign correspondent and executive producer with the broadcast company, will participate in the discussion.

The event, part of the museum’s Created Equal film series, is free and open to the public.

Details and to register to attend: www.eventbrite.com/e/avanished-dream-wartime-story-of-my-japanese-grandfathertickets-72717795885.

Documentary and panel on voting rights suppression set for Oct. 30 Voting rights and the efforts to suppress them is the focus of a film and panel discussion 6 to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 30, at the Virginia Commonwealth University Institute for Contemporary Art, 601 W. Broad St. The event, sponsored by the Richmond, James River Valley and Commonwealth chapters of The Links Inc. and VCU’s ICA, will feature the award-winning documentary “Rigged: The Voter Suppression Playbook.”

The film examines how right wing groups have worked in certain states to make it harder and more dangerous to vote, particularly for minority groups and young people, in the wake of former President Obama’s 2008. The film, shot during the 2016 presidential election, identifies a 10-part strategy developed by Republicans to suppress votes in Democratic-leaning areas.

A panel discussion moderated by attorney Ronald Wesley will follow the screening. Panelists include Dr. Julian M. Hayter, an associate professor at the University of Richmond and author of “The Dream is Lost: Voting Rights and the Politics of Race in Richmond;” Dr. Alexandra Reckendorf, associate chair of the Department of Political Science at VCU; Attorney Oscar H. Blayton; and Garry Ellis, voter registration coordinator with the Virginia Department of Elections.

The event is free and open to the public.

Details: Nannette Bailey at nabailey@vcu.edu.

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VSU celebrates homecoming this weekend

Virginia State University is celebrating its homecoming this weekend with a bevy of activities, including a jazz concert, golf tournament and comedy show.

In addition VSU announced the suspension of the “Trojan Explosion” marching band has ended, allowing the band to participate.

Events kick off with the 25th Anniversary Presidential Scholars Golf Tournament at 8 a.m. Friday, Oct. 18, at Dogwood Trace Golf Course, 3108 Homestead Drive in Petersburg.

Enry is $150 for individual players and $600 for teams.

Other events include: • The 5th Annual Legends of Troy 5K Run/ Walk, 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. Friday, Oct. 18, at Ettrick Park, 20400 Laurel Road in Petersburg.

Tickets and fees: $20.

• 7th Annual VSU Alumni Association PreHomecoming Tailgate, 3 to 6 p.m. Friday, Oct. 18, at Azurest South Alumni House. $10 donation to support the VSUAA Alfred W. Harris Tuition

Assistance Fund.

• Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Homecoming Awards Dinner, 5:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 18, at the Gateway Dining & Event Center. Tickets: $65.

• Jazz on the Hill, featuring artist Klaxton Brown, 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 18, on the Virginia Hall front lawn. Tickets: $75; $85 for VIP tickets.

• Funny As Ish Comedy Tour with Mike Epps, Bruce Bruce, Gary Owen and Mark Curry, 8 p.m. to midnight, Friday, Oct. 18, in the VSU

Multipurpose Center, 20809 2nd Ave. Tickets start at $76.

• Homecoming Parade, 9 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 19, in Downtown Petersburg.

• President’s Tailgate, 11:30 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 19, Virginia Hall front lawn. Free, but registration required at alumni@vsu.edu.

• 2019 VSU Homecoming Football Game against Bowie State University at Rogers Stadium. Kickoff: 2 p.m.

Details: www.vsu.edu or (804) 524-5000.

Photos by Sandra Sellars/Richmond Free Press

Lots of music, lots of folk Richmond’s Downtown riverfront came alive with people and music last weekend as thousands of people turned out for the Richmond Folk Festival. The three-day celebration of global music, food and art played out on multiple stages and in pavilions stretching along the James River from 2nd to 7th streets and on Brown’s Island.

Richmond’s own James “Plunky” Branch, left, sets an Afro-funk groove on the saxophone with his group, Plunky & the Oneness of Juju, on Saturday night. One audience member shows her appreciation by shining a light, right.

A member of Urban Artistry DC showcases hip-hop and house dance, below left, during an exhibition performance Saturday evening, while Balla Kouyaté of Mali and Famoro Dioubaté from Guinea, balafon masters, treat the audience to their modern and inventive sounds on an ancient instrument, below right.

Audiences of all ages engage and let loose during the performances, including 3-year-old Noah Perez, who shows off his dance moves after Urban Artistry’s show, bottom center.

The festival, produced by Venture Richmond Events, was free. But volunteers and other team members with the festival, including Ricardo, bottom right, walked around with buckets seeking donations to support the annual event that has brought world music to Richmond for the last 15 years. More than 30 entertainers and groups performed this year.

Emanuel Carona of Third Generation Jewelers in Milwaukee, one of scores of artisans and artists displaying their work during the festival, carefully crafts a bracelet, bottom left, while the crowd enjoys Cajun sounds, bottom center, from Beausoleil Avec Michael Doucet from Louisiana, above.

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Henrico County Community Day, which allows the community to gain greater knowledge and insight into the workings of county government and public school system, will be held 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 19, at Henrico High School, 302 Azalea Ave. More than two dozen departments and agencies will be represented at the event, sponsored by Henrico County and Henrico County Public Schools.

School marching bands, performances by cheerleading and dance teams, a kids zone, food and other music will be featured.

Free parking, with free shuttles to Henrico High School, will be available at Richmond Raceway’s Lot H, Gate 12, 5901 RichmondHenrico Turnpike.

Details: https://henrico.us/calendar/henricocounty-community-day/

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Donnie McClurkin: ‘I’m at a time now I sing when I want to’

By Adelle M. Banks Religion News Service

Two decades ago, gospel singer and pastor Donnie McClurkin stepped on a London stage to record his second album.

Now, he’s returning to the United Kingdom for 20th anniversary concerts on Oct. 18 and 19 to reprise the music of his “Live in London and More” CD that featured the songs “That’s What I Believe” and “We Fall Down.”

The Grammy-winning pastor of Perfecting Faith Church, a Pentecostal congregation in Freeport, N.Y., said he latched onto the popularity of black gospel music that existed overseas long before his 1999 concert.

“People like Andrae Crouch and Edwin Hawkins and the like made the music global so it was all a byproduct of the global impact that American gospel had,” he said.

Rev. McClurkin, who will turn 60 on Nov. 9 and celebrate with a gospel-star-studded celebration a week later in Jamaica, N.Y., also hosts “The Donnie McClurkin Show.” The show features a mixture of new and classic gospel music, interviews and inspirational messages that air online and in some 60 markets from the United States to the United Kingdom to countries in Africa.

He talked to Religion News Service about how Oprah Winfrey boosted his career, the status of his relationship with gospel artist Nicole C. Mullen and how retirement is a ways off.

The interview has been edited for length and clarity.

Why did you decide to record an album in London 20 years ago?

I decided to go to London, which was considered unusual by the record company itself,

Gospel artist and pastor Donnie McClurkin

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because of my mentor, the late great Andrae Crouch. He did a musical concert in 1978 in London. That became a landmark. And I always wanted to go to London from the time I knew where England was. And that was my prime opportunity because they gave me a blank check and said you just do an album however you want to do it.

Certain celebrities helped you early in your career. Who immediately comes to mind and what difference did they make?

I was nominal, I was at B-level at best — and Oprah Winfrey got wind of the (1996) CD. She put me on her television show and held up the CD and said, “This is my favorite singer. This is my favorite project.” And we went from 30,000 to 300,000 in a month and then finally went platinum.

Then there’s President George W. Bush and President Bill Clinton, and those kinds of things happened and made it something larger than life.

What were the presidents’

roles? What did they do?

They brought me to their convention to sing at the (Democratic National Convention), to sing at the (Republican National Convention), opened it up to thousands of people in a room, millions of people around the world and that’s where a lot of attention started coming in.

Is this London concert an unusual venture for you now, given you’re pastoring a church and hosting a radio show? Do you continue to perform in concert on other occasions?

I’m over in London just about once a year in concert.

Since “Live in London” 20 years ago, I’ve got a very strong base over there, a very strong community in England and in Europe period, from Italy to Germany to Holland to the U.K. Do you sing much in the United States?

I sing less in the U.S. than I do in Africa and Europe.

You won a 2017 Dove Award for “The Journey (Live)” and you were recognized in 2001 with a Dove

for “We Fall Down” from your “Live in London” album. As the Gospel Music Association’s Dove Awards celebrates its 50th award show next week, what are a couple of main changes you’ve seen in gospel music over that time?

In the GMA, I see a lot of inclusion. For a long time, it was very, very segregated. GMA was for the CCM (contemporary Christian music) and the white gospel singers. And in the last three or four years, I’ve seen such an inclusion, integration of black gospel artists along with the contemporary white gospel artists.

Do you mean that if you look at the Dove Awards, there is more integration?

The GMA as a whole, as an organization, not just the awards show but the organization itself. It’s grown and it’s matured and it’s let go of a lot of the institutionalized bias and has become inclusive of our music form, which is — and I probably will get in trouble — but our black music form is the

Meditation apps don’t always provide enlightenment Religion News Service

Search your smartphone’s app store for “meditation” and you’ll get more than 1,000 results.

There’s Headspace, which offers beginner courses on how to meditate; Simple Habit, which features short, mostly 5-minute guided meditation sessions such as “letting go of work worries” and “mini retreat for moms;” and Calm, which boasts 2 million paid subscribers, 50 million downloads and a company valuation of $1 billion.

tion with Buddhism isn’t, Dr. Chen said.

The tech sector’s roots in Northern California put its founders in close proximity to members of the Beat movement and counterculture of the 1950s and 1960s, when Asian spirituality — and Buddhism in particular — started entering the popular consciousness.

“A lot of people who are part of Silicon Valley and the tech industry were also part of Buddhism becoming more mainstream,” she said. “They moved in the same circles.”

Apple co-founder Steve Jobs traveled

A variety of meditation apps available

In addition to smartphone apps, startups are developing technologies to enhance meditation in other ways. Muse, for instance, is a research-grade EEG headband that monitors brain activity, allowing users to track their progress and tailor guided meditation sessions through sound in order to keep their concentration focused.

But technological tracking shouldn’t be confused with nirvana.

“Muse doesn’t deliver you to enlightenment,” Muse co-founder Ariel Garten said in an email statement. “It is simply giving tangible feedback on what’s occurring in your own mind so that you can learn effectively. Muse enhances your metacognition, your ability to process your own thoughts, and enables you to make choices around that knowledge.”

Mindfulness is now a $4 billion industry, according to the 2019 book “McMindfulness” by Ronald E. Purser, but commercial success often obscures the complicated relationship the practice has with Buddhism, from which many of these shoppable techniques are derived.

“The Buddhist community is of two minds about what’s going on,” said Carolyn Chen, a professor of Asian American and Asian diaspora studies at the University of California, Berkeley. “There will be people who think it’s a watering-down that’s compromising the tradition — and that it’s not Buddhism. Other people will say, ‘No, it’s not Buddhism, but it relieves suffering, and this is what the Buddha taught.’ ” While the money that meditation now generates is new, Silicon Valley’s fascina-

to India to study with a guru and had a Buddhist monk come to his office once a week for spiritual counseling. In 2007, Google leadership started Search Inside Yourself, a series of mindfulness courses for employees.

Growing scientific research on the health benefits of meditation also has legitimized mindfulness meditation in corporate settings, Dr. Chen said. Large companies, looking to improve their employees’ health while possibly lowering health costs, have adopted meditation in the workplace and sell meditation technology.

In the process, Dr. Chen said, meditation has been stripped of its religious elements and reoriented to achieving nonspiritual goals such as relaxation or concentration at work.

“It’s been transformed into a secular tool for self-optimization,” she said.

The app designers generally respect the religious origins of meditation but have no interest in selling it. Ms. Garten makes a point of noting the practice of focused attention’s “beautiful and deep roots in Buddhism” but said Muse was “built as a secular device that is accessible to all.”

Mushim Patricia Ikeda, a Buddhist mindfulness teacher at the East Bay Meditation Center in Oakland, Calif., who also teaches a yearlong secular mindfulness meditation course for social justice activists, said the trend has pros and cons.

“Anecdotally, there will be thousands of people who will say, ‘I started practicing mindfulness meditation, I’m not Buddhist, I’m not religious in any way, I don’t go for

strongest music form in gospel music. It’s what people gravitate to around the world, the whole of our repertoire. It’s been the most marketable. It’s been the most commercial. It’s been the most prominent. It’s apropos that at this point in time we are now sitting with equality at that table as well.

You described yourself as a victim of childhood sexual abuse. And when you claimed you had overcome homosexuality, that prompted opposition from gay rights groups.

How do you describe yourself now and are you involved in either so-called ex-gay ministries or initiatives that affirm LGBTQ people?

First of all, I’ve never been a part of any ex-gay anything. My past is just that: past. P-a-s-t. It’s gone. Who do I consider myself to be now? I consider myself to be Donnie, a wonderful old man now — I never thought I’d be calling myself that — who is peaking 60 years old come next month and who has overcome a lot more than sexuality. But that’s been a great part of my

life. It is something that I celebrate. I am a part of a church that embraces everybody. I am a pastor of a church that has hetero and homo in it as well.

I believe in the love of God that reaches out to everybody, the love of God that is unconditional, the love of God that is not based on ethnicity, not based on denomination, not based on classification.

I believe in the transformative love that only comes through God and that’s what I preach. That’s what I live.

That’s what I teach. I have a lot of LGBTQ friends in and out of the church. I’ve got a lot of people who appreciate what I’ve been through and they don’t judge me and I don’t judge them and that’s the way that this is supposed to work.

It’s supposed to be a love that is real and genuine, that can accept people for who they are, even if you don’t agree with them.

There were reports in recent years of you dating another gospel artist, Nicole C. Mullen. Where does that relationship stand?

We are great friends. We are very, very great friends.

Is there any thought of retiring from singing or from preaching?

In another 10 years (laughs) or maybe 20 years. Singing is something that’s marginal for me now. I do it when I want to do it. I do it when it’s convenient to do it, and I do it when it has a purpose, if it’s going to bring somebody to a greater understanding of who Christ is. I don’t do it just for the entertainment aspect of it any longer. I am selective in what I do. Aretha Franklin told me years ago, “There’s a time when you got to sing and there’s a time when you sing when you want to.” And that makes sense to me now. I’m at a time now I sing when I want to.

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Ms. Ikeda doesn’t use any meditation Morning Worship ~ 11 a.m. apps herself but has recorded a guided 4th Sunday Unified Worship Service ~ 9:30 a.m. meditation for the app Liberate, which was Bible Study: Wednesdays, 11:30 a.m. & 7 p.m. created specifically for the black, indigSermons Available at BRBCONLINE.org enous and people of color community.

She worried, however, that removing “MAKE IT HAPPEN” meditation from Buddhism’s spiritual Pastor Kevin Cook and moral roots in nonviolence means the practice could be used for unethical purposes.

Upcoming Events & Happenings “When we strip it as a meditation techSunday Morning Worship nique out of that huge, very rich foundation of ethics and morality, it becomes a October 20, 2019 @ 10:30 A.M. technique that could be used for any goal that we set and that we need more conWorkout Worship Sunday centration for, even if it’s to, say, exploit Sunday, October 20, 2019 factory workers or to do many unethical Incorporating health & wellness into our worship experience. or violent things with no conscience whatsoever,” Ms. Ikeda said.

Harvest Block Party The Rev. Daigan Gaither, a Soto Zen Saturday, October 26th, 2019 priest and Dharma teacher in the Bay Area, HarvestFest with family friendly activities for the community. said that when separated from Buddhism, This event is free and open to the public. meditation can also become a tool of the Register for Trunk or Treat on the web at: market. www.mmbcrva.org/harvest “Capitalism is using meditation to further its focus on increasing production Weekly Worship: Sundays @ 10:30 A.M. Church School: Sundays @ 9:00 A.M. and is using meditation as a way to get Bible Study: Wednesdays @ Noon & 6:30 P.M. people to work harder,” he said. “It’s not just taking meditation out of the context 2901 Mechanicsville Turnpike, Richmond, VA 23223 of Buddhist or Hindu practice, which is (804) 648-2472 ~ www.mmbcrva.org where it originated, but it’s also taking it Dr. Price London Davis, Senior Pastor in the opposite direction of what it really intended, which is spiritual and ethical growth.”

Rev. Gaither, who said he knows few Buddhists who use an app, also pointed Weekly Worship: Sundays @ 10:30 A.M. out that meditation is not the “be-all and Church School: Sundays @ 9:00 A.M. end-all” of Buddhism. While it’s often the Bible Study: Wednesdays @ Noon & 6:30 P.M. centerpiece of Buddhist practice in the U.S., the majority of Buddhists around the “I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to world don’t practice meditation. the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of Another element that’s lost in techpeace and brotherhood can never become a reality…. I believe that nology-guided meditation, experts say, is unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.” community, or sangha, whether between —Martin Luther King, teacher and student or between practitioners Jr. in the meditation hall. While technology can augment pre-existing relationships, it’s no substitute.

“In Zen, we say that Zen is passed warm heart to warm heart,” Rev. Gaither said. “You have to have a relationship with somebody to have that warm heart.

That’s not to say there’s not a place for technology in the practice of Buddhism, Lenten Season but I don’t think we can take the human Mosby joins with the larger Christia interaction out of it.” Rev. Dr. Price L. Davis, Pastor in celebrating the Lenten season Even as meditation apps, startups and reflection, fasting & prayerful conse pop-ups continue to generate billions of on the journey and follow along wi dollars, Ms. Ikeda said she doesn’t anticipate the popularity of these technologies Calendar at www.mmbcrv to last forever.

“It’s a trend now,” she said. “And tomorrow it will be something else.”

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October 17-19, 2019

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Faith News/Directory

New interfaith group targeting predatory lenders

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

S. Creditor, retired spiritual leader of Temple Beth-El in Richmondâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s West End, and Imam Michael Abdul Hakim, teacher As pastor of Wesley Memorial United Methodist Church, the and leader of Masjid Bilal in Church Hill, and other advocates Rev. Rodney Hunter weekly hears stories of financial distress from of overhauling such loans. members and non-members who seek help from his church.

The clergy members called for bold action from the Virginia Many who come to the East End church, he said, have sought General Assembly in 2020 to fix the abusive practices in the relief by taking out loans with sky-high interest rates that make payday and title lending markets to save hard-working families their financial situation worse as they are unable to millions of dollars each year. pay off the loan. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Here in Virginia, our legislators allow predatory Fed up with the damage to families that he sees lenders to charge over 200 percent interest, far more such loans causing, the minister is leading a charge than the very same companies charge in other states,â&#x20AC;? to address the problem through a new group he Rev. Hunter said. has helped organize, Virginia Faith Leaders for â&#x20AC;&#x153;Judaism, Christianity and Islam all condemn Fair Lending. the practice of usury,â&#x20AC;? he continued. â&#x20AC;&#x153;As people of Under the groupâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s banner, Rev. Hunter is holding faith and conscience, we cannot look the other way â&#x20AC;&#x153;preach-insâ&#x20AC;? in Richmond and other communities in while these companies enrich themselves by trapfront of payday and vehicle title lender businesses. ping our fellow citizens â&#x20AC;&#x201D; our family members, The preach-ins, he said, are to raise attention neighbors and fellow congregants â&#x20AC;&#x201D; in a hopeless Rev. Hunter to state policies and company practices that allow cycle of debt.â&#x20AC;? interest rates of more than 200 percent, which prevent people According to the Virginia Poverty Law Center, the Commonfrom paying off the money they borrowed. wealth has become the â&#x20AC;&#x153;East Coast capital of predatory lending.

He is supported by other faith leaders who have become Virginia has among the weakest consumer protections for payday members of the group. and vehicle title loans. Hundreds of thousands of people every The first preach-in was held last Friday in front of the Advance year are being trapped in debt,â&#x20AC;? the center noted.

America loan office on Williamsburg Road in Henrico County.

Hopes that the federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Joining him to protest and call for change were Rabbi Gary would install new regulations sharply limiting interest rates that

Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s healing and deliverance conference Oct. 25 and 26

Dr. Khaalida Forbes, pastor of Truth City in Washington, and Bishop S. Teri Smith of Love Ministries Fellowship Church in Houston will be among the speakers at Fashioned for the Kingdom Healing and Deliverance Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ConDr. Forbes ference, a two-day event in Richmond to help women embrace their vision and maximize their potential.

The conference will be held 3 to 10 p.m. Friday, Oct. 25, and 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 26, at the Westin Richmond, 6631 W. Broad St.

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companies could charge on short-term loans died when the Trump administration killed the proposal that originated under former President Obama.

James W. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Jayâ&#x20AC;? Speer, executive director of the VPLC, said the center is preparing for a new push for reform based on legal and policy changes in Ohio and Colorado.

Acknowledging that legislators are unwilling to ban the loans, Mr. Speer said the proposal would call for capping the interest on payday and title loans at 36 percent â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the typical limit on consumer loans â&#x20AC;&#x201D;but also would allow such lenders to charge monthly fees.

However, he said the proposal also would call for imposing a limit on the total that such companies could charge to no more than 50 percent of the amount borrowed. For example, a borrower of $1,000 could be charged no more than $500 in interest and fees.

The proposal also would call for giving consumers up to four months to repay the loan and would require the companies to accept installment payments rather than forcing a borrower to make a lump sum repayment or renew the loan, Mr. Speer said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We hope to close all loopholes and create a marketplace that is fair to borrowers and lenders,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It has been done in other states and it can be done here.â&#x20AC;?

He noted that Advance America and other lenders that oppose reform in Virginia are still making loans in Ohio and Colorado despite the new limits there.

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Tuesday Sunday 10:30 AM Bible Study 9:30 AM Church School 6:30 PM Church-wide Bible Study 11:00 AM Worship Service 6:30 PM Men's Bible Study (Each 2nd and 4th) (Holy Communion Thursday each 2nd Sunday) Wednesday (Following 2nd Sunday) 6:30 PM Prayer Meeting

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Richmond Free Press

B6 October 17-19, 2019

Legal Notices 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 Monday, November 4, 2019 at 1:30 p.m. in the Fifth Floor Conference Room of City Hall and the Council of the City of Richmond has scheduled a public hearing on Tuesday, November 12, 2019 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. 2019-294 To close, to public use and travel, a portion of Greenville Avenue between its southern terminus and Kansas Avenue and of a 16’ alley located in the adjacent block to the east of Greenville Avenue and bounded by Kansas Avenue to the north and Carter Street to the east, together consisting of 22,760± square feet, and to authorize the Chief Administrative Officer to accept the dedication of a 500 square foot right-ofway area for a turnaround near the proposed new southern terminus of the alley, all for the purpose of facilitating redevelopment of the area, upon certain terms and conditions.

Ordinance No. 2019-295 To amend Ord. No. 2012200-2013-4, adopted Jan. 28, 2013, which authorized the special use of the property known as 407 South Cherry Street for the purpose of permitting multifamily use and the property known as 811 Albemarle Street for the purpose of establishing a singlefamily dwelling lot and a lot to be used for surface parking accessory to a multifamily use, to modify the number of bedrooms in the multifamily dwelling and to allow balconies, upon certain terms and conditions. The property is located in the R‑7 Single‑ and Two‑Family Urban Residential District. The City of Richmond’s Downtown Plan designates a future land use category for the subject property as Downtown General Urban Area which is characterized by medium d e n s i t y, m i x e d u s e development, distributed along medium sized blocks. No residential density is specified for this land use category.

Ordinance No. 2019-296 To amend and reordain O r d . N o . 2 0 1 8 - 111 , adopted Apr. 9, 2018, which authorized the special use of the properties known as 1208 and 1212 McDonough Street and 314, 316, 318, and 322 West 12th Street for the purpose of a mixed-use building containing up to 33 dwelling units, to modify the permitted uses of the property, upon certain terms and conditions. The property is located in the R‑8 Urban Residential District. The City of Richmond’s Downtown Plan designates a future land use category for the subject property as Downtown General Urban area. The General Urban Area is characterized by medium‑density mixed‑use development along medium sized blocks.

Ordinance No. 2019-297 To amend Ord. No. 2019014, adopted Feb. 11, 2019, which authorized the special use of the property known as 2919 Griffin Avenue for the purpose of authorizing a single-family detached dwelling, to authorize a subdivision of the property and the construction of an additional single-family detached dwelling on the new parcel, upon certain terms and conditions. The property is situated in a UB Urban Business District and the PE-7 Brookland Park Boulevard/North Avenue Parking Exempt Parking Overlay District.

The City of Richmond’s Master Plan designates the subject property as community commercial.

Primary uses include office, retail, personal service and other commercial and service uses.

Ordinance No. 2019-298 To authorize the special use of the property known as 1101 Bainbridge Street for the purpose of day nursery, restaurant, and office uses, retail stores and shops, and any other uses permitted on corner lots pursuant to section 30-419.3(a) of the Code of the City of Richmond (2015), as amended.

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development, typically arranged on a fine grained street network, with wide sidewalks, regular tree planting, and minimal setbacks.

Ordinance No. 2019-299 To authorize the special use of the property known as 1200 North 28th Street for the purpose of a multifamily dwelling containing up to 15 dwelling units, upon certain terms and conditions. The property is situated in an M-1 Light Industrial District. The City of Richmond’s current Master Plan designates the subject property for Single Family Medium Density (SF-MD). Primary uses are single family and two family dwellings, both detached and attached, at densities of 8 to 20 units per acre. The density of the proposed development would be approximately 82 units per acre.

Ordinance No. 2019-300 To authorize the special use of the property known as 1217 West Leigh Street for the purpose of a veterinary clinic, upon certain terms and conditions. The property is situated in a R-7 Singleand Two-Family Urban Residential District. The Pulse Corridor Plan calls for a future land use recommendation for this property as Neighborhood Mixed‑use. Neighborhood Mixed‑use areas are cohesive districts that provide a mix of uses, but with a larger amount of residential uses than other mixed‑use districts.

Ordinance No. 2019-301 To authorize the special use of the property known as 126 West Brookland Park Boulevard for the purpose of a café with accessory production, wholesale, and certain distribution uses, upon certain terms and conditions. The property is located in the UB Urban Business District and the PE-7 Brookland Park Boulevard/North Avenue Parking Exempt Parking Overlay District.

The City’s Master Plan recommends Community Commercial land uses for the property. Primary uses included office, retail, personal service and other commercial and service uses, intended to provide the shopping and service needs of residents of a number of nearby neighborhoods or a section of the City.

Ordinance No. 2019-302 To authorize the special use of the property known as 1620 Park Avenue for the purpose of a multifamily dwelling, upon certain terms and conditions. The property is situated in an R-6 Single-Family Attached Residential District. The City of Richmond’s current Master Plan designates the subject property for Single Family Medium Density (SF-MD) uses which includes, “… single-family and twofamily dwellings, both detached and attached, at densities of 8 to 20 units per acre. If approved, the density of the parcel would be reduced from approximately 56 to 44 units per acre.

Ordinance No. 2019-303 To authorize the special use of the property known as 3200 West Broad Street for the purpose of a temporary wireless telecommunications monopole and associated equipment, upon certain terms and conditions.

The property is situated in a TOD-1 TransitOriented Nodal District.

The Pulse Corridor Plan recommends Corridor Mixed-Use land use for the property. Such areas are found along m a j o r, t r a d i t i o n a l l y commercial corridors and are envisioned to provide for mediumdensity pedestrian- and transit-oriented infill development.

Ordinance No. 2019-304 To conditionally rezone the property known as 6400 Jahnke Road from the R-2 Single-Family Residential District to the R-53 Multifamily Residential District (Conditional), upon certain proffered conditions. The City of Richmond’s current Master Plan designates a future land use category for the subject properties as Single-Family Low Density. Primary uses for this category include single-family detached dwellings at densities up to seven units per acre.

The Master Plan also designates the parcel as a “Housing Opportunity Area”.

Interested citizens who wish to speak will be given an opportunity to do so.

Copies of the full text of all ordinances are available by visiting the City Clerk’s page on the City’s Website at www.Richmondgov. com 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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City of Richmond, Virginia CITY COUNCIL PUBLIC NOTICE Notice is hereby given that the Council of the City of Richmond has scheduled a public hearing, open to all interested citizens, on Tuesday, November 12, 2019 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. 2019-268 To authorize the Chief Administrative Officer, for and on behalf of the City of Richmond, to execute an Agreement for the Use of Federal Highway Administration Congestion Mitigation Air Quality Program Funds Fiscal Year 2019 between the City of Richmond and the Virginia Department of Rail and Public Transportation to provide funding for the continuation of the City of Richmond Employee Trip Reduction program.

(COMMITTEE: Finance & Economic Development, Thursday, October 17, 2019, 1:00 p.m., Council Chamber) Ordinance No. 2019-269 To authorize the Chief Administrative Officer, for and on behalf of the City of Richmond, to execute a Project Agreement for Use of Commonwealth Transportation Funds Fiscal Year 2019 between the City of Richmond and the Virginia Department of Rail and Public Transportation to provide funding for the continuation of the City of Richmond Employee Trip Reduction program. (COMMITTEE: Finance & Economic Development, Thursday, October 17, 2019, 1:00 p.m., Council Chamber) Ordinance No. 2019-273 To authorize the Chief Administrative Officer, for and on behalf of the City of Richmond, to execute a Commonwealth’s Development Opportunity Fund Performance Agreement between the City of Richmond, Thomson Reuters Holdings Inc., the Economic Development Authority of the City of Richmond, and the Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority for the purpose of providing Thomson Reuters Holdings Inc. with incentives to establish a cybersecurity operations office and to improve, equip, and operate a new facility in the city of Richmond.

(COMMITTEE: Finance & Economic Development, Thursday, October 17, 2019, 1:00 p.m., Council Chamber) Ordinance No. 2019-274 To amend ch. 11 of the City Code by adding therein a new art. VIII (§§ 11-190—11-197) to establish a commercial property assessed clean energy program in accordance with Va. Code § 15.2-958.3, for the purpose of facilitating the development of clean energy projects.

(COMMITTEE: Finance & Economic Development, Thursday, October 17, 2019, 1:00 p.m., Council Chamber) Ordinance No. 2019-275 To amend ch. 6 of the City Code by adding therein a new art. XII (§§ 6-596— 6-602) to establish a technology zone program in accordance with Va. Code § 58.1-3850, for the purpose of facilitating the development and location of technology businesses in the city of Richmond, capital investment, and job creation. (COMMITTEE: Finance & Economic Development, Thursday, October 17, 2019, 1:00 p.m., Council Chamber) Ordinance No. 2019-276 To amend City Code §§ 26-872, concerning definitions related to license taxes, and 26-989, concerning licenses taxes for personal services businesses, and to amend ch. 26, art. XV, div. 2 of the City Code by adding therein a new section numbered 261003.1, concerning the license tax for technology businesses, for the purpose of creating a new business, profession, and occupation license category called “technology business” and imposing a new license tax on such businesses.

(COMMITTEE: Finance & Economic Development, Thursday, October 17, 2019, 1:00 p.m., Council Chamber) Ordinance No. 2019-278 To authorize the Chief Administrative Officer, for and on behalf of the City of Richmond, to execute a Fourth Amendment to Controlled Public Access Lease Agreement between the City of Richmond and Venture Richmond, Inc. for the purpose of excluding from the “Demised Premises” certain real property, and to repeal Ord. No. 2018056, adopted Mar. 26, Continued on next column

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2018. (COMMITTEE: Land Use, Housing and Transportation, Tuesday, October 22, 2019, 1:00 p.m., Council Chamber) Ordinance No. 2019-279 To g r a n t t o t h e Commonwealth of Virginia a non-exclusive, permanent easement over and across an approximately 23,228.99square-foot portion of City-owned real estate l o c a t e d o n B r o w n ’s Island for the purposes of installing, accessing, and maintaining the Virginia Emancipation Proclamation and Freedom Monument, and to repeal Ord. No. 2018-055, adopted Mar. 26, 2018. (COMMITTEE: Land Use, Housing and Transportation, Tuesday, October 22, 2019, 1:00 p.m., Council Chamber) Ordinance No. 2019-280 To authorize the Chief Administrative Officer, for and on behalf of the City of Richmond, to execute a Standard Project Administration Agreement between the City of Richmond and the Virginia Department of Transportation to provide funding for the design and construction of multimodal access along North Lombardy Street from its intersection with West Leigh Street to its intersection with School Road and Admiral Street. (COMMITTEE: Land Use, Housing and Transportation, Tuesday, October 22, 2019, 1:00 p.m., Council Chamber) Ordinance No. 2019-281 To authorize the Chief Administrative Officer, for and on behalf of the City of Richmond, to execute a Standard Project Administration Agreement between the City of Richmond and the Virginia Department of Transportation to provide funding for the resurfacing of Chippenham Parkway from its intersection with Archdale Road to its intersection with the Forest Hill Avenue exit ramp. (COMMITTEE: Land Use, Housing and Transportation, Tuesday, October 22, 2019, 1:00 p.m., Council Chamber) Ordinance No. 2019-282 To authorize the Chief Administrative Officer, for and on behalf of the City of Richmond, to execute a Standard Project Administration Agreement between the City of Richmond and the Virginia Department of Transportation to provide funding for the resurfacing of Chippenham Parkway from its intersection with the Forest Hill exit ramp to the City’s corporate boundary. (COMMITTEE: Land Use, Housing and Transportation, Tuesday, October 22, 2019, 1:00 p.m., Council Chamber) Ordinance No. 2019-283 To authorize the Chief Administrative Officer, for and on behalf of the City of Richmond, to execute a Standard Project Administration Agreement between the City of Richmond and the Virginia Department of Transportation to provide funding for the resurfacing of West Roanoke Street from its intersection with Forest Hill Avenue to its intersection with Midlothian Turnpike.

(COMMITTEE: Land Use, Housing and Transportation, Tuesday, October 22, 2019, 1:00 p.m., Council Chamber) Ordinance No. 2019-284 To authorize the Chief Administrative Officer, for and on behalf of the City of Richmond, to execute a Standard Project Administration Agreement between the City of Richmond and the Virginia Department of Transportation to provide funding for the resurfacing of the southbound lanes of Virginia Route 161 from its intersection with Dunstan Avenue to its intersection with Brandon Road. (COMMITTEE: Land Use, Housing and Transportation, Tuesday, October 22, 2019, 1:00 p.m., Council Chamber) Ordinance No. 2019-285 To authorize the Chief Administrative Officer, for and on behalf of the City of Richmond, to execute a Standard Project Administration Agreement between the City of Richmond and the Virginia Department of Transportation to provide funding for the resurfacing of the northbound lanes of Virginia Route 161 from its intersection with Brandon Road to its intersection with Dunston Avenue. (COMMITTEE: Land Use, Housing and Transportation, Tuesday, October 22, 2019, 1:00 p.m., Council Chamber) Ordinance No. 2019-286 To authorize Symbol Development Office, LLC, to encroach upon the public right-of-way Continued on next column

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with an outdoor dining area encroachment at the west line of Highpoint Avenue north of the northwest corner of the intersection of Rockbridge Street and Highpoint Avenue, upon certain terms and conditions.

(COMMITTEE: Land Use, Housing and Transportation, Tuesday, October 22, 2019, 1:00 p.m., Council Chamber) Ordinance No. 2019-287 To authorize the Chief Administrative Officer, for and on behalf of the City of Richmond, to execute appropriate documents releasing The Maggie Walker Community Land Trust and its successors in interest from any obligation to fulfill certain deed conditions and contractual requirements to redevelop the property known as 2922 P Street for the purpose of allowing the Land Trust to exchange the property known as 2922 P Street for a certain parcel owned by Restoration Builders of Virginia, Incorporated.

(COMMITTEE: Land Use, Housing and Transportation, Tuesday, October 22, 2019, 1:00 p.m., Council Chamber) Ordinance No. 2019-288 To amend ch. 27, art.

II of the City Code by adding therein a new § 27-40.1, concerning distracted driving, for the purpose of prohibiting distracted driving while using a handheld personal communications device.

(COMMITTEE: Public Safety, Tuesday, October 22, 2019, 11:00 a.m., Council Chamber) Ordinance No. 2019-289 To amend ch. 19, art. VII, div. 2 of the City Code by adding therein a new § 19-334.2, concerning the reporting of lost or stolen firearms, for the purpose of imposing a requirement that lost or stolen firearms be reported to the Department of Police and prescribing a civil penalty for violations thereof. (COMMITTEE: Public Safety, Tuesday, October 22, 2019, 11:00 a.m., Council Chamber) Ordinance No. 2019-290 To authorize the Chief Administrative Officer, for and on behalf of the City of Richmond, to execute a Police Mutual Aid Joint Av i a t i o n A g r e e m e n t between the County of Henrico, Virginia, the County of Chesterfield, Virginia, and the City of Richmond, Virginia, and to repeal Ord. No. 2018010, adopted Mar. 12, 2018, which authorized the Chief Administrative Officer to execute a Police Mutual Aid Joint Aviation Agreement between the County of Henrico, Virginia, the County of Chesterfield, Virginia, and the City of Richmond, Virginia, for the purpose of operating a joint aviation unit to support aerial law enforcement activities in the party jurisdictions.

(COMMITTEE: Public Safety, Tuesday, October 22, 2019, 11:00 a.m., Council Chamber) Ordinance No. 2019-291 To p r o v i d e f o r t h e granting by the City of Richmond to the person, firm or corporation to be ascertained in the manner prescribed by law of a franchise for management of the Hopkins Road Transfer Station located at 3506 Hopkins Road and the East Richmond Road Convenience Center located at 3800 East Richmond Road in accordance with a certain Franchise Agreement. ( CO M M I T T EE : Governmental Operations, Thursday, October 24, 2019, 12:00 p.m., Council Chamber) Ordinance No. 2019-292 To amend the schedule of classifications and assigned ranges incorporated into section I of the Pay Plan adopted

by Ord. No. 2018-319 on Jan. 14, 2019, for the purpose of revising the wording of certain classification titles and changing the pay ranges of two classification titles. (COMMITTEE: Governmental Operations, Thursday, October 24, 2019, 12:00 p.m., Council Chamber) Ordinance No. 2019-293 To amend City Code §§ 28-837, concerning records of facilities, 28857, concerning the authority required for the placement and use of poles, wires, and conduits, and 28-862, concerning joint use of existing poles or conduits and board of arbitrators, and to amend ch. 28, art. VII, by adding therein a new div. 3 (§§ 28-876—28-882) for the purpose of authorizing the Director of Public Utilities to issue permits for the installation of wireless facilities in the public rightof-way. (COMMITTEE: Governmental Operations, Thursday, October 24, 2019, 12:00 p.m., Council Chamber) Continued on next column

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Interested citizens who wish to speak will be given an opportunity to do so.

Copies of the full text of all ordinances are available by visiting the City Clerk’s page on the City’s Website at www.Richmondgov. com 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.

Candice D. Reid City Clerk City of Richmond, Virginia CITY COUNCIL PUBLIC NOTICE Notice is hereby given that the Council of the City of Richmond has scheduled a public hearing, open to all interested citizens, on Monday, October 28, 2019 at 2:00 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 ordinance: Ordinance No. 2019-272 To c r e a t e a n e w reservation of fund balance called the 2019 Cost of Living Adjustment for City Retirees Reserve, intended to be categorized as an assigned fund balance and used to provide a one-time, onepercent cost of living adjustment for each member of the Richmond Retirement System who receives a retirement allowance.

Interested citizens who wish to speak will be given an opportunity to do so.

Copies of the full text of all ordinances are available by visiting the City Clerk’s page on the City’s Website at www.Richmondgov. com 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.

Candice D. Reid City Clerk

Divorce VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER AIDA HERRERA, Plaintiff v.

HUGO ALVARADO JUARES, Defendant.

Case No.: CL19002267-00 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 has been served with the Complaint by posted service appear here on or before the 25th day of November, 2019 at 9:00 AM, and protect his interests.

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

SHERYL HAYES, Defendant.

Case No.: CL19001391-00 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 25th day of November, 2019 at 9:00 AM, and protect her interests.

A Copy, Teste: FRANK D. HARGROVE, JR., Clerk I ask for this: Dorothy M. Eure, Esquire Law Office of Dorothy M. Eure, P.C. 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 JAKENYA MONAY YOUNG Case No. J-096533-07 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to: Terminate the residual parental rights (“RPR”) for Unknown (Father) of Jakenya Monay Young, child DOB 10/20/2018.

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but not limited to rights of: visitation; adoption consent; determination of religious affiliation; and responsibility for support.

It is ORDERED that the defendant Unknown Father to appear at the abovenamed Court and protect his/her interest on or before January 15, 2020, at 11:30 AM, Courtroom #5.

et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL19-3371 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 3401-A Lynhaven Avenue, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number S008-0778/016, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, John Sattelmaier and Lynn K. Sattelmaier.

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

IT IS ORDERED that J O H N S AT T E L M A IER , LYNN K. SATTELMAIER, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before December 5, 2019 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond, Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7940

VIRGINIA: IN THE JUVENILE AND DOMESTIC RELATIONS DISTRICT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND Commonwealth of Virginia, in re ZION REYNOLDS & ZYRELL REYNOLDS Case No. J-93798-08-09-00, J-95854-07-08-00, J-95854-09-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to: Terminate the residual parental rights (“RPR”) Natural Jefferson (FATHER) & UNKNOWN (FATHER’S) & Siaja Reynolds (MOTHER), of Zion Reynolds, child, DOB 7/29/2008 & Zyrell Reynolds, child DOB 4/9/2018, “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.

It is ORDERED that the defendants Natural Jefferson (Father), Unknown (Father’s), & Siaja Reynolds (Mother) to appear at the above-named Court and protect his/her interest on or before 1/7/2020, at 10:00 AM, Courtroom #2.

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

JOHN SATTELMAIER, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL19-3370 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 3401 Lynhaven Avenue, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number S0080778/017, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, John Sattelmaier and Lynn K. Sattelmaier.

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

IT IS ORDERED that J O H N S AT T E L M A IER , LYNN K. SATTELMAIER, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before December 5, 2019 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond, Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7940 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v.

RIDGE POINT REAL ESTATE, LLC, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL19-3438 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 721 North 24th Street,, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number E0000333/030, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Ridge Point Real Estate, LLC.

An Affidavit having been filed that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.”

IT IS ORDERED that Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before December 5, 2019 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond, Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7940

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

JAMES EDWARD SHEFFIELD, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL19-3863 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 5216 Beddington Road, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number C008-1182/021, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, James Edward Sheffield and Patricia A. Sheffield.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, JAMES EDWARD SHEFFIELD, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; that said owner, PATRICIA A. SHEFFIELD, who has been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to his/her last known address, has not been personally located and has not filed a response to this action; that FRANK GROSSMAN and SYLVIA GROSSMAN, Beneficiary of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Deed Book 826 page 1561 on February 8, 1984 per an assignment recorded at Deed Book 160 page 1643 on 31 March 1988, who have been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to their last known address, have not been personally located and have not filed a response to this action; and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.”

I T I S OR D ERE D that J A M E S E D WA R D S H E F F IE L D , upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, PATRICIA A. SHEFFIELD, FRANK GROSSMAN and S Y LVI A G RO S S M A N , Beneficiary of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Deed Book 826 page 1561 on February 8, 1984 per an assignment recorded at Deed Book 160 page 1643 on 31 March 1988, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before December 5, 2019 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond, Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7940

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

JOHN SATTELMAIER,

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING THELMA L. CHEATHAM a/k/a ESTATE OF THELMA LENORA CHEATHAM,

By Alice A. Brooks, Administrator Plaintiff v.

HEIRS AT LAW OF THELMA LENORA CHEATHAM DEVISEES, ASSIGNEES, OR SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST OF THELMA LENORA CHEATHAM, CREDITORS WHETHER FUTURE OR AT THIS TIME NOT KNOWN, ET ALS, ALL MADE PARTIES DEFENDANTS TO THIS ACTION BY THE GENERAL

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DESCRIPTION, “PARTIES UNKNOWN” Defendants CASE#CL18-5382 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to confirm the heirs at law of THELMA L. CHEATHAM, who died intestate, in the City of Richmond, Va. On January 2, 2011.

An affidavit has been filed, by the Administrator of her estate, Alice A. Brooks, that confirms THELMA L. CHEATHAM a/k/a THELMA LENORA CHEATHAM, had two sister who preceded her intestate, in death, namely (1) Edythe Cheatham Smith and (2) Odessa Vivian Cheatham; that Marquita C. Smith, survived her mother Edythe C. Smith but also died intestate on August 5, 2009; That no Last Will and Testament, nor heirs at law for the aforesaid Heirs at law of THELMA L. CHEATHAM have been identified or located, that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, and / or creditors with a current or future interest in said estate have been identified, despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suits by general description of “ PARTIES UNKNOWN”.

IT IS ORDERED that t h e “ H E I R S AT L AW ” , DEVISEES ASSIGNEES OR SUCCESSORS in interest of THELMA LENORA CHEATHAM and PARTIES UNKNOWN come forward and appear on or before December 1st, 2019 and do what is necessary to protect their interest in this matter.

An Extract, Teste: EDWARD F. JEWETT, Clerk I ASK FOR THIS John L. Taylor III, Attorney 2416 Jefferson Avenue Post Office Box 8027 Richmond, Virginia 23223 (804) 649-7688 (Phone) (804) 649-8757 (Fax) VA BAR# 19845 AT T Y J LTAY L O R 3 R D @ VERIZON.NET

been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.”

IT IS ORDERED that T E R RY L . PA R R O T T, KIMBERLY A. ELEY, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before December 5, 2019 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond, Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7940

been filed that said owners, LOUIS REED, BARBARA MASON, BRENDA MASON, EVELYN MASON, PATRICIA S. TINSLEY, NORA G. JONES, BILLIE S. ARCHER, WILLIE E SMITH, EILEEN M. CHAPMAN, DOROTHEA JENNINGS and DANIEL A. SMITH, are to be proceed against by Order of Publication pursuant to Section 8.01-316(A)(3) of the Code of Virginia, and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.”

IT IS ORDERED that LOUIS REED, BARBARA MASON, BRENDA MASON, EVELYN MASON, PATRICIA S . T I N S L E Y, N O R A G. JONES, BILLIE S. ARCHER, WILLIE E SMITH, EILEEN M. CHAPMAN, DOROTHEA JENNINGS, DANIEL A. SMITH, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before December 5, 2019 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond, Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7940

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

EDGAR A. TALBOTT, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL19-4730 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 414 Marx Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number S000-0320/001, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner/ of record, Edgar A. Talbott, Clinton L. Talbott, Phillip A. Talbott, Addie T. Parkerson, Carrie T. Anderson, Grace T. Butler, and Wilmay Elaine Talbott Centeno.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, EDGAR A. TALBOTT, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, CLINTON L. TALBOTT, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, PHILLIP A. TALBOTT, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, ADDIE T. PARKERSON, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, CARRIE T. ANDERSON, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, and GRACE T. BUTLER, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; that said owner, WILMAY ELAINE TALBOTT CENTENO, has not been located and has not filed a response to this action; and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.”

IT IS ORDERED that EDGAR A. TALBOTT, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, CLINTON L. TALBOTT, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, PHILLIP A. TALBOTT, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, ADDIE T. PARKERSON, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, CARRIE T. ANDERSON, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, GRACE T. BUTLER, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, WILMAY ELAINE TALBOTT CENTENO, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before December 5, 2019 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond, Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7940

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

CARLTON S. ROGERS, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL19-1383 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 803 Jessamine Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number E0000376/011, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Carlton S. Rogers, Franklin K. Rogers, Haywood R. Rogers, Chandra R. Roger and Myron P. Rogers.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owners, CARLTON S. ROGERS, FRANKLIN K. ROGERS, HAYWOOD R. ROGERS, and CHANDRA R. ROGER, who has been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to their last known address, have not been personally located and have not filed a response to this action; that said owner, MYRON P. ROGERS, has not been located and has not filed a response to this action; and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.”

IT IS ORDERED that CARLTON S. ROGERS, FRANKLIN K. ROGERS, HAYWOOD R. ROGERS, CHANDRA R. ROGER, MYRON P. ROGERS, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before December 5, 2019 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond, Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7940 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v.

TERRY L. PARROTT, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL19-1002 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 1411 Brookland Parkway, Tax Map Number N000-1222/006, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number NESW, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Terry L. Parrott and Kimberly A. Eley.

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BETTY HINTON, et al.

Defendants.

Case No.: CL19-3886 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 209 East 15th Street, , Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number S0000191/003, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Betty Hinton, James Jones, Jr., Rose Woody, Olita Robinson, Randy Rodriguez, Candy Pettaway, Vincent Rodriguez, Ronnette Rodriguez, Grace Steed, Carolyn Steed, David Steed, Jr., Clyde Epps Jr., Shirley Epps, Vernon Epps, Beatrice Hendrick, Ernest Harris Jr., Estee Harris, David Harris, Maxine Brown, Donald Bass, Barbara Smith, Versail Alexander, Marilyn Hinton, Clifton Steed, Jr., Clara Steed, Gladys Reynolds, Kathleen Thompson, Wallace Steed, Lisa Crawford, Joe Hinton, Jr., Chiny Johnson, Christine Steed, Fanny Sinkford and Static Mort.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owners, BETTY HINTON, JAMES JONES, JR., ROSE WOODY, OLITA ROBINSON, RANDY RODRIGUEZ, CANDY P E T TAWAY, V I N C E N T RODRIGUEZ, RONNETTE RODRIGUEZ, GRACE STEED, CAROLYN STEED, DAVID STEED, JR., CLYDE EPPS JR., SHIRLEY EPPS, VERNON EPPS, BEATRICE HENDRICK, ERNEST HARRIS JR., ESTEE HARRIS, DAVID HARRIS, MAXINE BROWN, DONALD BASS, BARBARA SMITH, VERSAIL ALEXANDER, M A R I LY N H I N T O N , CLIFTON STEED, JR., CLARA STEED, GLADYS REYNOLDS, KATHLEEN THOMPSON, WALLACE STEED, LISA CRAWFORD, JOE HINTON, JR., CHINY JOHNSON, CHRISTINE STEED, FANNY SINKFORD and STATIC MORTON, are to be proceed against by Order of Publication pursuant to Section 8.01-316(A)(3) of the Code of Virginia, and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.”

IT IS ORDERED that BETTY HINTON, JAMES JONES, JR., ROSE WOODY, OLITA ROBINSON, RANDY RODRIGUEZ, CANDY P E T TAWAY, V I N C E N T RODRIGUEZ, RONNETTE RODRIGUEZ, GRACE STEED, CAROLYN STEED, DAVID STEED, JR., CLYDE EPPS JR., SHIRLEY EPPS, VERNON EPPS, BEATRICE HENDRICK, ERNEST HARRIS JR., ESTEE HARRIS, DAVID HARRIS, MAXINE BROWN, DONALD BASS, BARBARA SMITH, VERSAIL ALEXANDER, M A R I LY N H I N T O N , CLIFTON STEED, JR., CLARA STEED, GLADYS REYNOLDS, KATHLEEN THOMPSON, WALLACE STEED, LISA CRAWFORD, JOE HINTON, JR., CHINY JOHNSON, CHRISTINE STEED, FANNY SINKFORD and STATIC MORTON, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before December 5, 2019 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond, Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7940 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v.

LOUIS REED, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL19-4689 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 20 Thurman Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number S0070875/001, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Louis Reed, Barbara Mason, Brenda Mason, Evelyn Mason, Patricia S. Tinsley, Nora G. Jones, Billie S. Archer, Willie E Smith, Eileen M. Chapman, Dorothea Jennings and Daniel A. Smith.

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

BETTY HINTON, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL19-3887 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 211 East 15th Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number S0000191/004, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Betty Hinton, James Jones, Jr., Rose Woody, Olita Robinson, Randy Rodriguez, Candy Pettaway, Vincent Rodriguez, Ronnette Rodriguez, Grace Steed, Carolyn Steed, David Steed, Jr., Clyde Epps Jr., Shirley Epps, Vernon Epps, Beatrice Hendrick, Ernest Harris Jr., Estee Harris, David Harris, Maxine Brown, Donald Bass, Barbara Smith, Versail Alexander, Marilyn Hinton, Clifton Steed, Jr., Clara Steed, Gladys Reynolds, Kathleen Thompson, Wallace Steed, Lisa Crawford, Joe Hinton, Jr., Chiny Johnson, Christine Steed, Fanny Sinkford and Static Mort.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owners, BETTY HINTON, JAMES JONES, JR., ROSE WOODY, OLITA ROBINSON, RANDY RODRIGUEZ, CANDY P E T TAWAY, V I N C E N T RODRIGUEZ, RONNETTE RODRIGUEZ, GRACE STEED, CAROLYN STEED, DAVID STEED, JR., CLYDE EPPS JR., SHIRLEY EPPS, VERNON EPPS, BEATRICE HENDRICK, ERNEST HARRIS JR., ESTEE HARRIS, DAVID HARRIS, MAXINE BROWN, DONALD BASS, BARBARA SMITH, VERSAIL ALEXANDER, M A R I LY N H I N T O N , CLIFTON STEED, JR., CLARA STEED, GLADYS REYNOLDS, KATHLEEN THOMPSON, WALLACE STEED, LISA CRAWFORD, JOE HINTON, JR., CHINY JOHNSON, CHRISTINE STEED, FANNY SINKFORD and STATIC MORTON, are to be proceed against by Order of Publication pursuant to Section 8.01-316(A)(3) of the Code of Virginia, and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.”

IT IS ORDERED that BETTY HINTON, JAMES JONES, JR., ROSE WOODY, OLITA ROBINSON, RANDY RODRIGUEZ, CANDY P E T TAWAY, V I N C E N T RODRIGUEZ, RONNETTE RODRIGUEZ, GRACE STEED, CAROLYN STEED, DAVID STEED, JR., CLYDE EPPS JR., SHIRLEY EPPS, VERNON EPPS, BEATRICE HENDRICK, ERNEST HARRIS JR., ESTEE HARRIS, DAVID HARRIS, MAXINE BROWN, DONALD BASS, BARBARA SMITH, VERSAIL ALEXANDER, M A R I LY N H I N T O N , CLIFTON STEED, JR., CLARA STEED, GLADYS REYNOLDS, KATHLEEN THOMPSON, WALLACE STEED, LISA CRAWFORD, JOE HINTON, JR., CHINY JOHNSON, CHRISTINE STEED, FANNY SINKFORD and STATIC MORTON, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before December 5, 2019 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond, Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7940 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND Continued on next column

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

GABBY HOMES, LLC, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL19-3424 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 912 Chimborazo Boulevard, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number E000-0879/017, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Gabby Homes, LLC pka Gabby Homes, Inc.

An Affidavit having been filed that DEBBIE HANKS, Registered Agent for GABBY HOMES, LLC, owner of record of said property, who has been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to her last known address, has not been personally located and has not filed a response to this action, and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.”

IT IS ORDERED that DEBBIE HANKS, Registered Agent for GABBY HOMES, LLC, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before December 5, 2019 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond, Office of the City Attorney Continued on next column

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900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7940 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v.

GABBY HOMES, LLC, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL19-3274 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 914 Chimborazo Boulevard, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number E000-0879/016, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Gabby Homes, LLC pka Gabby Homes, Inc.

An Affidavit having been filed that DEBBIE HANKS, Registered Agent for GABBY HOMES, LLC, owner of record of said property, who has been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to her last known address, has not been personally located and has not filed a response to this action, and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.”

IT IS ORDERED that DEBBIE HANKS, Registered Agent for GABBY HOMES, LLC, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before December 5, 2019 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond, Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7940 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v.

DONNELL SEWARD, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL19-3392 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 1130 East 15th Street, Richmond, Virginia, 1130 East 15th Street, Tax Map Number S000-0636/016, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Donnell Seward, John Lee Seward, Jr. and Carolyn Y. Seward.

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

IT IS ORDERED that D O N N E L L S E WA R D , JOHN LEE SEWARD, JR, CAROLYN Y. SEWARD, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before December 5, 2019 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond, Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7940 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v.

JONATHAN J. GILLIAM, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL19-3343 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 2007 Newbourne Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number E012-0312/002, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Jonathan J. Gilliam.

An Affidavit having been filed that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.”

IT IS ORDERED that Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before December 5, 2019 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond, Continued on next column

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Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7940 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v.

MAUREEN MORALES, TRUSTEE, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL19-2584 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 3216 Carolina Avenue, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number N0001157/005, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Maureen Morales and Anthony Bancroft, Trustees of the Maureen Bancroft 2002 Irrevocable Trust u/a dated June 27, 2002.

An Affidavit having been filed that MAUREEN MORALES, TRUSTEE, Maureen Bancroft 2002 Irrevocable Trust u/a dated June 27, 2002, who is not a resident of the Commonwealth of Virginia, has not filed a response to this action; that ANTHONY BANCROFT, TRUSTEE Maureen Bancroft 2002 Irrevocable Trust u/a dated June 27, 2002, who is not a resident of the Commonwealth of Virginia, has not been located and has not filed a response to this action; and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.”

IT IS ORDERED that MAUREEN MORALES, TRUSTEE, Maureen Bancroft 2002 Irrevocable Trust u/a dated June 27, 2002, ANTHONY BANCROFT, TRUSTEE Maureen Bancroft 2002 Irrevocable Trust u/a dated June 27, 2002, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before December 5, 2019 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond, Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7940 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v.

JMJ PROPERTIES, INC, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL19-1384 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 3402 Hull Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number S000-2453/007, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, JMJ Properties, Inc.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, JMJ PROPERTIES, INC, a purged Virginia corporation, has not been located and has not filed a response to this action; that JAMES S. SEASE, TRUSTEE of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 03-39375 on October 10, 2003, has not been personally located and has not filed a response to this action; that JANIE BAYNE BLILEY, Beneficiary of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 03-39375 on October 10, 2003, who has been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to her last known address, has not been personally located and has not filed a response to this action; that NANCY ANN ROGERS, TRUSTEE of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 08-3983 on February 13, 2008, who has been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to her last known address, has not been personally located and has not filed a response to this action; and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.”

IT IS ORDERED that JMJ PROPERTIES, INC, a purged Virginia corporation, JAMES S. SEASE, TRUSTEE of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 03-39375 on October 10, 2003, JANIE BAYNE BLILEY, Beneficiary of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 0339375 on October 10, 2003, NANCY ANN ROGERS, TRUSTEE of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 08-3983 on February 13, 2008, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before December 5, 2019 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

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An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond, Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7940

BENEFICIARY of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Deed Book 54 page 786 on September 23, 1985, has not been located and has not filed a response to this action; and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.”

IT IS ORDERED that ELLIS INVESTMENT GROUP, INC, an entity purged from the records o f t h e Vi r g i n i a S t a t e Corporation Commission, B E N N I N G T O N I N C O R P O R AT E D , a n entity purged from the records of the Virginia State Corporation Commission, TRUSTEE of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Deed Book 54 page 786 on September 23, 1985, COLONIAL MORTGAGE & INVESTMENT, an entity purged from the records o f t h e Vi r g i n i a S t a t e Corporation Commission, BENEFICIARY of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Deed Book 54 page 786 on September 23, 1985, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before December 5, 2019 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond, Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7940

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

AALIYAH TAYTIANNA KILPATRICK, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL18-6029 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 3700 Dunston Avenue, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number S0002468/012, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Aaliyah Taytianna Kilpatrick and Ikieem Rakim Kilpatrick fka Ikieem Rakim Fordham.

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

IT IS ORDERED that A A L I YA H TAY T I A N N A KILPATRICK, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before December 5, 2019 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond, Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7940 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v.

EDWIN MAURICE BEANE, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL19-3480 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 4025 Crutchfield Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number S0002917/030, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Edwin Maurice Beane.

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

IT IS ORDERED that EDWIN MAURICE BEANE, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before December 5, 2019 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond, Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7940 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v.

ELLIS INVESTMENT GROUP, INC, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL19-3801 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 5205 Salem Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number E0100107/004, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Ellis Investment Group, Inc.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, ELLIS INVESTMENT GROUP, INC, an entity purged from the records of the Virginia State Corporation Commission, has not been located and has not filed a response to this action; that BENNINGTON INCORPORATED, an entity purged from the records o f t h e Vi r g i n i a S t a t e Corporation Commission, TRUSTEE of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Deed Book 54 page 786 on September 23, 1985, has not been located and has not filed a response to this action; that COLONIAL MORTGAGE & INVESTMENT, an entity purged from the records o f t h e Vi r g i n i a S t a t e Corporation Commission, Continued on next column

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

ELLIS INVESTMENT GROUP, INC, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL19-3800 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 5207 Salem Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number E0100107/005, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Ellis Investment Group, Inc.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, ELLIS INVESTMENT GROUP, INC, an entity purged from the records of the Virginia State Corporation Commission, has not been located and has not filed a response to this action; that BENNINGTON INCORPORATED, an entity purged from the records o f t h e Vi r g i n i a S t a t e Corporation Commission, TRUSTEE of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Deed Book 54 page 786 on September 23, 1985, has not been located and has not filed a response to this action; that COLONIAL MORTGAGE & INVESTMENT, an entity purged from the records o f t h e Vi r g i n i a S t a t e Corporation Commission, BENEFICIARY of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Deed Book 54 page 786 on September 23, 1985, has not been located and has not filed a response to this action; and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.”

IT IS ORDERED that ELLIS INVESTMENT GROUP, INC, an entity purged from the records o f t h e Vi r g i n i a S t a t e Corporation Commission, B E N N I N G T O N I N C O R P O R AT E D , a n entity purged from the records of the Virginia State Corporation Commission, TRUSTEE of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Deed Book 54 page 786 on September 23, 1985, COLONIAL MORTGAGE & INVESTMENT, an entity purged from the records o f t h e Vi r g i n i a S t a t e Corporation Commission, BENEFICIARY of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Deed Book 54 page 786 on September 23, 1985, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before December 5, 2019 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond, Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7940 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE CITY OF RICHMOND FRANK S. ROYAL, SR., Administrator Petitioner, v.

Chesna Mitchell, et al.

And Unknown Heirs.

Defendants, In re: Estate of Barbara Jean Richardson, Deceased Case No.: CL19-42-57-4 ORDER OF PUBLICATION Continued on next page

Richmond Free Press

B8 October 17-19, 2019

Sports Plus

Kenyan marathoner breaks 2-hour barrier Free Press wire report

VIENNA Kenyan Eliud Kipchoge made athletics history on Saturday when he became the first person to run a 26.2-mile marathon in under two hours, stretching the limits of human endeavor and passing a milestone few thought could be reached for decades if at all.

Guided by green laser beams shined onto the road and helped by 41 world class athletes choreographed into rotating teams of pacemakers, the Olympic champion and world record holder smashed the barrier by 20 seconds, finishing in 1 hour 59.40 minutes.

It was regarded as the biggest achievement in athletics since Briton Roger Bannister broke the 4-minute mile in 1954 and was likened by Kipchoge himself to landing on the moon.

“Today we went to the moon and came back to Earth! I am at a loss for words for all the support I have received from all over the world,” Kipchoge said.

However, it was not recognized as a world record by the sport’s governing International Association of Athletics Federations, or IAAF, as it was not in open competition and used rotating pacemakers.

Leicester/The INEOS 1:59 Challenge via AP

Eliud Kipchoge, an Olympic champion and world record holder from Kenya, runs on his way to history last Saturday in Vienna to become the first athlete to run a marathon in less than two hours. His historic run, in 1 hour, 59 minutes and 40 seconds, will not count as a world record however. The INEOS 1:59 Challenge was set up for the attempt.

As the pacemakers peeled away for the last kilometer, Kipchoge accelerated down the final straight, smiled and

pointed at people in the crowd who gave him a rousing reception.

“I have been training for this for

Kenyan runners spark VUU cross-country team work went into this.”

For example, the Kenyans embarked on a rigorous summer training plan that included grueling 22-mile runs, averaging a speed of more than 7 minutes per mile.

Kipruto is a 22-year-old native of Lessos, Kenya. Both his parents are retired from the Kenyan postal service. He is 5 feet, 7 inches tall and a super slender 130 pounds. Kipruto is

By Fred Jeter

Coming from some 7,500 miles away, Micah Kipruto and Enos Rotich feel right at home on America’s oval tracks and cross-country trails.

The Kenya natives need no special directions — not even a GPS — to find their way to the head of the pack and first to the finish line.

Both have excelled with their smooth strides and bottomless tank of energy in their relatively short time as students and runners at Virginia Union University.

Already, Kipruto twice has been the CIAA Runner of the Week this fall for Coach Melissa Ferry’s Micah Kipruto Enos Rotich cross-country Panthers.

His stiffest competition, at majoring in chemistry. times, has come from his dormiRotich, from Eldoret, Kenya, tory roommate and countryman, is 20 years old, 6 feet tall and Rotich.

147 pounds. He is the son of So how did these two young educators and is majoring in men travel through some seven cyber security. times zones to cross the AfriThe young men are as smart can continent and the Atlantic in the classroom as they are swift Ocean and land at VUU on on the track and trails. Both have North Side? nearly 4.0 GPAs. “A little bit of luck and good And while they have no diftiming,” Coach Ferry said. “I get ficulty conversing in English, lots of emails from international they both are fluent in Swahili athletes. In an un-busy mo- and Kalenjin languages. When ment, I found Micah and Enos’ alone, they speak Swahili to emails about wanting to come one another. to VUU.” Both are of the Kalenjin tribe, Coach Ferry, as well as fans which numbers some 5 million of VUU athletics, is elated she people who reside mostly in the followed up on their inquiries Rift Valley province of Kenya. and offered scholarship aid.

A high percentage of Kenya’s But she stresses this fact: world-class runners are Kalen“Some people think everyone jins, hailing from same general from Kenya can run fast, but area with a thin-air elevation of that’s not true. A whole lot of some 7,000 feet.

Since the 1960s, Kenyan runners have long enjoyed a global domination in distance events.

Here’s how the VUU athletes explain it: “It’s the high altitude training,” Kipruto said.

“We have high standards and expectations in Kenya. We follow strict rules and discipline,” Rotich said.

Both trained under the same coach in Kenya before coming to the United States.

Rotich arrived on campus last December and is a sophomore.

Kipruto came in January and is a second-semester freshman.

Kipruto dazzled during his early-season 8K, or 5 mile, tests this fall. With ease, he has won the Virginia State University Fall Opener in 24.84 and the VSU Trojan Invitational in a school record 24.39.

But while adapting toAmerican racing has come seamlessly for the Kenyans, they haven’t yet fallen in love with U.S. cuisine.

The young men’s faces twisted a bit when asked about the university’s cafeteria menu.

Few U.S. campus eateries include such Kenyan staples as ugali — cornmeal and vegetables; or irio — boiled mashed peas and potatoes; or goat.

Kenyan foods are rarely fried.

“Food is much different here,” Kipruto said.

With a laugh, Rotich added, “We’d seen hamburgers before, but not like here.”

Whatever their fuel, it has been sufficient so far. Few lay down tracks like the Panthers’ long-distance runners a long way from home.

four and a half months,” the 34-year-old said before being mobbed by teammates. “I have been putting my heart

and mind to run under two hours for a marathon and make history.

“I am feeling good. After Roger Bannister, it took another 65 years to make history,” he added. “Now I’ve gone under two hours to inspire other people and show the world nobody is limited.”

Although the IAAF did not recognize the run, its president, Sebastian Coe, had said he was in favor of such events and argued that it was not a huge issue if they were not recognized by the sport’s governing body.

There was unbridled joy in Kipchoge’s homeland as thousands of people celebrated on the streets. “We don’t even have the words to explain it, it is such a proud moment. We are super, super proud to be Kenyan,” said one reveler.

In Nairobi, traffic stopped with people gathering in bars and anywhere with television screens as national hero Kipchoge closed in on completing the stunning achievement.

Kipchoge is practically a neighbor to Virginia Union University’s Kenyan distance runners Micah Kipruto and Enos Rotich. He hails from Eldoret, Kenya, in the Rift Valley Province, the same province as the VUU runners.

Also like the VUU athletes, Kipchoge is part of the Kalenjin people.

Coco wins first WTA title at 15; Osaka gives up U.S. citizenship to play for Japan in Olympics Free Press wire report

LINZ, Austria Coco Gauff is still just 15. She also is already the owner of a WTA singles title.

The American beat 2017 French Open champion Jelena Ostapenko 6-3, 1-6, 6-2 in the final of the Upper Austria Ladies tournament Sunday, making Gauff the youngest winner of a singles trophy on the WTA tour since 2004.

“This is a special moment for me,” Gauff said.

And Gauff managed to do it after losing in the last round of qualifying, then moving into the main draw as a “lucky loser” when another player withdrew from the field.

“I’m still overwhelmed and shocked,” Gauff said, according to the WTA’s website.

“I guess it’s crazy to say it’s my first WTA title. This was definitely not on the calendar at the beginning of the year, because I didn’t think I’d have a chance to get in. And now I’m the champion, so it’s crazy.”

This week’s run, which included a victory over Kiki Bertens for her initial Top 10 win, was the latest impressive performance for Gauff, who, as a result, rose 39 spots in the rankings to become the new WTA World No. 71.

She was just 313th when Wimbledon began on July 1. That’s when she burst onto the scene as the youngest qualifier in tournament history, then beat five-time champion Venus Williams along the way to making it to the fourth round.

Gauff claimed her first WTA doubles title in Washington in August, pairing with Caty McNally, before getting to the third round in singles at the U.S. Open.

Meanwhile, Florida’s Naomi Osaka, who was ranked No. 3 by the WTA on Monday, has taken steps to give up her U.S. citizenship to play for Japan in the 2020 Olympics, Japanese media said last week.

Osaka, 22, who was born in Japan to a Haitian father and Japanese mother but raised in the United States, currently

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Naomi Osaka lifts high her winner’s trophy after defeating Ashleigh Barty of Australia in the women’s final at the China Open tennis tournament in Beijing on Oct. 6.

has dual U.S.-Japan citizenship. She told NHK it will be special for her to represent host Japan at the Tokyo Games, the public broadcaster said.

Osaka faced a deadline to relinquish one nationality because neither Japan nor the United States permits dual citizenship for adults.

The Japanese Olympic Committee and a U.S.-based agent for Osaka in the United States could not be reached for comment.

Japan, which has long prided itself on being homogeneous, is becoming more ethnically diverse. But prejudice remains against “haafu,” or half-Japanese, including cases of bullying against mixed-race children.

And while Japan has largely embraced Osaka, she still faces some indignities.

Two weeks ago, Osaka laughed off comments by a Japanese comedy duo who said she was “too sunburned” and “needed some bleach,” and turned the tables with a plug for Japanese cosmetic giant Shiseido, one of her sponsors.

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