Richmond Free Press September 23-25, 2021 edition

VP a toss up at game A10

Richmond Free Press

VOL. 30 NO. 39

© 2021 Paradigm Communications, Inc. All rights reserved.

RICHMOND, VIRGINIA

www.richmondfreepress.com

ee Fr

Fr ee

Meet this week’s Personality B1

SEPTEMBER 23-25, 2021

Denied their chance Racism and segregation wouldn’t allow young African-Americans in Richmond to use whites-only pool for life-saving swimming merit badge in quest to become Eagle Scouts

Regina H. Boone/Richmond Free Press

J. Maurice Hopkins stands outside Ebenezer Baptist Church in Jackson Ward, where he and William “Bunny” Roane were the first Eagle Scout candidates in Boy Scout Troop 478 under the leadership of Scoutmaster Linwood D. Ross.

By Nichole M. Christian

J. Maurice Hopkins never wanted this story written.

Truth be told, Mr. Hopkins never wanted his life intertwined with the detail that continues to make this tale poignant more than 50 years later. Had history done right by Mr. Hopkins, this might be a simple story of a well-respected Richmonder looking back on the ways becoming a Boy Scout, at his mother’s insistence, helped shape his life.

Instead, Mr. Hopkins, 74, is the last living member of Richmond’s Black Eagle Scout “should-have-beens,” a bittersweet nickname linking him to a largely unknown slice of history.

Mr. Hopkins said that he and his former Boy Scout buddy, the late William “Bunny” Roane, were given the moniker by the late Linwood D. Ross, their legendary scoutmaster who led Ebenezer Baptist Church’s Troop 478 for more than 60 years.

Prior to his death in May at age 91, Mr. Ross had earned every award available to a troop leader by the Boy Scouts of America. His funeral was filled with tributes and stories of how he shepherded at least 20 Richmond boys on to Eagle Scout, scouting’s highest rank.

For decades, Mr. Hopkins and Mr. Roane Please turn to A5

City registrar takes heat for delay in opening satellite voting locations

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

Deputy City Attorney Tabrica C. Rentz, delivered the bad Keith G. Balmer, Rich- news. mond’s new voter registrar, was He said Ms. Rentz told him rushing to start early in-person that state law currently bars him voting next week at two satel- from changing the plan he had lite locations—City publicly advertised Hall in Downtown prior to the start of and the Hickory Hill early voting.

Community Center The notice he in South Side. placed in local Mr. Balmer had newspapers stated been bombarded that in-person early with voter comvoting would not plaints about his start at City Hall and Mr. Balmer initial decision to Hickory Hill until wait until Oct. 17 to open those mid-October. two satellite sites, or 17 days Meanwhile, the notice statbefore the official Election Day ed, the only place where city on Tuesday, Nov. 2, and was voters would be able to cast trying to change course. early ballots in person is at But Mr. Balmer hit a legal the Registrar’s Office, 2134 roadblock that halted his efforts Laburnum Ave. in North Side. to enable voters to cast in-person That started on Friday, Sept. 17. ballots at the two sites as early The only other option would as Monday, Sept. 27. be to request and use a mailMr. Balmer told the Free in ballot.

Press on Tuesday night that his office’s legal counsel, acting Please turn to A4

New ‘Emancipation and Freedom Monument’ unveiling draws crowds, tears

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

“Overwhelming!”

“Excited!”

“Proud!”

Those were some of the comments from onlookers as they viewed the state’s new “Emancipation and Freedom Monument” that was unveiled Wednesday on Brown’s Island on the James River in Richmond’s Downtown.

Capping an hourlong ceremony, a covering was pulled away, revealing the two, 12-feet-tall bronze figures that Oregon sculptor Thomas J. Warren created to evoke the emotions the newly freed people might have experienced.

One figure, facing east, is that of a woman holding a baby in one arm while the other is raised triumphantly holding a copy of the Emancipation Proclamation, the 1863 edict of President Abraham Lincoln freeing slaves as the Civil War raged.

The second figure, facing west, is of a bare-chested man with whip marks on his back with outstretched arms.

On the base on which the woman stands, there are images and information about 10 Black Virginians, five of whom were involved in the struggle for freedom before the Civil War. They include rebellion leaders Nat Turner and Gabriel and Civil War spy Mary Jane Richards Bowser. The five other Virginians were inPlease turn to A4

Regina H. Boone/Richmond Free Press

A family affair Cousins Langston Minter, left, and Gilbert Carter III enjoy ice cream from Ruby Scoops Ice Cream & Sweets on Brookland Park Boulevard during last Saturday’s neighborhood block party hosted by Brookland Park RVA. Several blocks on the North Side street were closed to traffic, with festival-goers enjoying music, food and shopping from vendors and stores. The wide range of offerings including restaurants, a market, a fitness studio, a pet spa and art spaces. The youngsters attended the summer festival with their grandmother, Joyce Carter.

School Board rejects terminating contract for school food vendor

By Ronald E. Carrington

The Richmond School Board and schools administration debated the future of who will be contracted to provide meals to the city’s 24,000 students and what they will eat after last week’s public outrage over the condition, quality and nutritional value of the “Grab and Go” meals delivered to schools daily by Please turn to A4

Photos by Regina H. Boone/Richmond Free Press

Two new 12-foot bronze statues comprising the Emancipation and Freedom Monument are unveiled and dedicated Wednesday in front of several hundred people at Brown’s Island. Many in the crowd, including state Sen. Jennifer L. McClellan, head of the statue commission, above, shed tears during the emotional ceremony. Sen. McClellan is comforted by Gov. Ralph S. Northam as Delegate Betsy B. Carr, left, applauds the unveiling.

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

The Richmond and Henrico County health districts are offering testing at the following locations: • Thursday, Sept. 23, 4 to 6 p.m., Randolph Community Center, 1415 Grayland Ave. • Tuesday, Sept. 28, 9 to 11 a.m., Second Baptist Church of South Richmond, 3300 Broad Rock Blvd., drive-thru testing.

• Wednesday, Sept. 29, 9 to 11 a.m., Eastern Henrico Recreation Center Pavilion, 1440 N. Laburnum Ave. Appointments are not necessary, but can be made by

Please turn to A4

Richmond Free Press

A2 September 23-25, 2021

Local News

Golden Nugget donates $1M to Virginia’s HBCUs Free Press staff report

A $1 million donation to the five historically Black universities in Virginia.

Seeking to make a big splash, that’s the way Golden Nugget Online Gaming Inc. and its minority partner, Virginia Sports Technology Group, entered the sports betting field on Wednesday.

The donation was presented at a ceremony Wednesday at Virginia Union University. The money is to be split equally —$200,000 apiece—to VUU, Virginia State, Hampton and Norfolk State universities and Virginia University of Lynchburg.

The gift to the schools coincided with the launch of Golden Nugget’s online sports wagering in Virginia, company officials said.

According to Jeff Kelley, spokesman for the online gambling operation, Golden Nugget also has promised an annual gift to the schools of 4 percent of net gaming revenue. He stated that the yearly gift would be no less than $500,000, or $100,000 per school.

Golden Nugget lost out in the competition to build a Richmond casino and turned to sports betting to get in on the growing betting action on sporting events.

30 city employees face possible firing over COVID-19 vaccination mandate Free Press staff report

With the City of Richmond just days away from the Oct. 1 deadline for all employees to be fully vaccinated against the coronavirus, all but 30 workers have gotten the vaccine or filed religious or medical exemptions to the city mandate.

Those 30 workers could face potential consequences, including leave without pay or firing – “the ultimate action,” according to Mayor Levar M. Stoney.

“We believe the health and welfare of our employees is of … utmost priority, but also the health and welfare of the people that we interface with in our community,” Mayor Stoney said during a media briefing Sept. 15. “If you believe that you’re not going to get vaccinated, you’re not going to have a job at the City of Richmond.”

The City of Richmond has roughly 3,600 workers and was the first Virginia locality to implement a COVID-19 vaccine requirement. It applied to employees in all departments, but not the roughly 500 working under constitutional officers, including the Richmond Sheriff’s Office and Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office. It also does not apply to Richmond Public Schools employees.

City employees had until Aug. 18 to submit documentation of full vaccination or that they had received a first dose, or submit a request for exemption.

Mayor Stoney said at the time that 74 percent of city workers were fully vaccinated, with another 10 percent partially vaccinated and set to meet the Oct. 1 deadline.

Another 10 percent of the workforce have had exemptions approved, with more religious exemptions than medical exemptions.

Commonwealth Catholic Charities to lead city’s winter overflow shelter efforts

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

Homeless people needing shelter in Richmond beginning Friday, Oct. 1, through mid-April will have a place to stay if the private shelters are full during cold weather.

Now tapped as City Hall’s overflow shelter manager, Commonwealth Catholic Charities, or CCC, plans to initially operate an inclement weather shelter at the Quality Inn Central, 3207 N. Arthur Ashe Blvd. It will be in the same space that was used as a pandemic safety net shelter last year, according to the plan Mayor Levar M. Stoney’s administration presented to City Council on Sept. 1.

CCC plans to use the hotel space while it renovates its intake facility at 809 Oliver Hill Way. City Council’s policy is to have a shelter available when the temperature or wind chill factor is forecast to be at or below 40 degrees for the night.

Stoney administration officials stated that funding is being requested from City Council to pay for renovations at the CCC site and for operational costs for the first year. If the council approves it, the renovations would take several months, officials noted.

The funding would come from shelter dollars provided to the city by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, officials stated.

The city considered other options, including buying a motel, but has dropped those ideas, the officials said, and is now focused on ensuring CCC has the funds it needs to handle the city’s shelter needs.

The CCC also is under contract with the Greater Richmond Continuum of Care to operate the region’s main shelter program for families with children under 12, people recovering from illness, surgery or other health challenges and those 62 and older.

In July, Sharon Ebert, the city’s deputy chief administrative officer for economic and community development, told the council that $2.65 million was available to keep the program operating through March.

She said at the time that 133 individuals and 128 families with children under 12 were being housed through the program in motels and other locations.

She said then that GRCoC, an umbrella group whose members operate private shelters, had tapped CCC and the Richmond Urban Ministry Institute in North Side to operate the program, which is distinct from the city’s overflow shelter for winter and inclement weather.

Regina H. Boone/Richmond Free Press

Volunteers apply paint last Saturday to and Virginia Community Voice, the parent refresh the beauty of the street art at the organization for RVA Thrives. The purpose of intersection at Bainbridge and 12th streets the project: To touch up and revive artwork in Manchester. The pop-up art project is the Slices of life and scenes that was installed two years ago. ARCA’s goal in Richmond work of a program called ARCA, which stands is to involve community members, including for Art, Reconciliation and Civic Advocacy. young people, to improve safety for pedesRichmond artists Hamilton Glass and Alphonso Perez Acosta trians and cyclists in South Side. ARCA plans to host similar co-direct the initiative that is assisted by the nonprofit RVA pop-up events from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. this Saturday, Sept.

Thrives. Participants in the weekend effort included members of 25, in Hillside Court and from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Mending Walls RVA, another art group that Mr. Glass founded, Oct. 2, at Davee and Ruffin roads in South Side.

Cityscape

Driver, mechanic shortages could lead to GRTC service cuts

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

Offering bonuses of $5,000 to $8,500, GRTC is seeking to lure more drivers to its ranks and avoid cutting service.

Julie Timm, the transit company’s chief executive officer, publicly disclosed the company is short at least 24 full-time drivers and has significant vacancies among its mechanic staff in detailing at Tuesday’s GRTC board meeting the workforce troubles the company is facing.

With personnel retiring or leaving faster than new people can be brought on board, Ms. Timm told the board that service already is being cut in an operation that often runs slower than its published route schedules.

She said, without offering specifics, that even deeper service cuts might be needed

by December if the oversized bonuses do not produce workers who want to drive and maintain service.

Mayor Levar M. Stoney stated in a letter Tuesday to Richmond’s three GRTC board members that he was informed GRTC is considering cuts of up to 20 percent, which he considers unacceptable.

He cited plans to end all service at 11 p.m. and to have fewer buses operating on most lines, with 60-minute service becoming far more frequent.

City Council’s Land Use, Housing and Transportation Committee has yet to weigh

in on an issue that could disrupt the lives of workers who rely on bus service and create a new problem for businesses and their employees.

Richmond is hardly alone. People with commercial driver licenses, or CDLs, are in short supply as are skilled workers in a variety of industries, with the pandemic only exacerbating the problem.

In the transit sector, small and large companies are struggling to fill vacancies. In multiple school districts, parents have to take their kids to school because there are not enough bus drivers. Trucking companies, meanwhile, are hunting for drivers to move goods.

Mayor Stoney apparently first learned about the prospect of service cutbacks during a meeting he held last week with the city’s three GRTC board members, the Rev. Benjamin P. Campbell, Eldridge Coles and George Braxton.

In his letter, Mayor Stoney urged GRTC to look for alternatives to service cuts that he said would hit hardest at the poor, the elderly and disabled who rely on GRTC service.

“The city would like to see decisions made on how to avoid service cuts that harm lowerincome and vulnerable groups who depend on the system the most,” he wrote.

The mayor also noted that GRTC has other options, including partnering with ride-share companies such as Uber,

Lyft, USURV and VITA, or creating “a community-based program that would put 10-15 smaller buses on the street.”

He urged the company to work with its union to “implement an emergency retention strategy” to stem the personnel losses, including providing immediate pay raises of $5 to $7 an hour across the board.

He also urged GRTC to reach out to the city’s Fleet Division to secure support for bus maintenance and pledged that city departments would join in helping with driver recruitment, particularly in “the communities that would be most affected by the cuts.”

Mayor Stoney called it “inexplicable that we are proposing cutting 20 percent of GRTC’s service at a time when it’s actually politically popular to invest in transit services.”

He noted the federal, state and regional dollars that have been poured in to undergird GRTC and enable the company to offer free rides.

Meanwhile, Richmond has hopes of gaining additional millions from President Biden’s proposed infrastructure bill to expand Pulse bus rapid-transit, the most successful part of GRTC’s system. If the funding comes through, the city is planning to add a north-south line along U.S. 1/301, particularly the Richmond Highway stretch, to add to the current east-west line on Broad Street.

City addresses problems in three new school buildings

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

City Hall is blaming manufacturing defects for flaws in three new school buildings that opened for in-person classes on Sept. 8.

The city’s response to a Free Press query follows publication of an article in the Sept. 16-18 edition about the problems in the school buildings, including a partial malfunction in air conditioning at River City Middle and the two elementary schools, Cardinal and Henry L. Marsh III. River City Middle also had problems with gym floors and a broken elevator.

On the air conditioning, Robert Stone, who played a key role for the city in getting the schools built, confirmed that all three schools had problems, but he said it was not because of anything that was done during installation.

“The HVAC systems at each new school went through a thorough, rigorous, enhanced commissioning, inspection and testing process,” according to Mr. Stone, the city Department of Public Utilities engineering manager who was a leader on the Joint Construction Team that led the collective $147 million school development.

In an email provided to the Free Press, Mr. Stone stated that component parts in

the heating, cooling and ventilation systems failed “in the 12 plus months since completion of construction” and “have needed to be repaired or replaced at each of the new schools. The most significant (issue) has been the failure of a compressor in one of the two chiller units at Cardinal.”

Mr. Stone said the issues are being handled “as normal warranty repairs by the equipment manufacturers and the mechanical subcontractors.”

Modern air conditioning systems, he continued, are complex and “integrate equipment and components from many different manufacturers. That is why we require and have both specific equipment manufacturer’s warranties and a general overall one-year project warranty.”

He added that AECOM, the private construction manager the city paid to ensure the job was completed on time and on budget, should not be blamed for such problems.

“AECOM’s responsibility as construction manager, along with the architectural and engineering team, is to ensure that the correct equipment is supplied to the job and is installed properly and is tested to ensure its start-up,” Mr. Stone stated.

On the River City gym floor, Mr. Stone stated that “water spilled on a small portion of the wood flooring in the main

gym while the mechanical subcontractor was performing scheduled coil cleaning maintenance on the rooftop air-handling unit located above.”

He stated that the spill was cleaned up, but “some water seeped into the wooden subfloor, which resulted in some cupping of the maple floor boards in the area of the spill. The general contractor has accepted responsibility and is in the process of having the affected area of the gym floor repaired.”

As to small gaps in the gym floor, Mr. Stone noted that the manufacturer, Action Floor Systems LLC, has explained that those are needed to allow the wooden floor to expand and contract based on temperature changes and are not defects.

In a paper included with Mr. Stone’s email, Don Brown, a flooring expert with the company, indicated that the gaps tend to disappear over time as the floor adjusts to the temperature norms.

Mr. Stone stated that Richmond Public Schools notified the Joint Construction Team of the elevator problem but has not submitted a warranty repair request to the city. He stated the warranty runs through Oct. 16 and would be enforced if an RPS request is received and if the warranty applies to the needed repair.

Students to face new ‘growth assessment’ tests this fall

By Ronald E. Carrington

Richmond Public School students will be required to take a statewide growth assessment test starting this fall.

Students in third through eighth grades will be the first to take new “growth assessments” to determine baselines for measuring individual academic progress in reading and mathematics during the school year.

These new tests, which will be administered statewide, are in addition to the Standards of Learning tests students will take next spring and were mandated by legislation approved by the 2021 General Assembly.

“These new assessments are timely in that they will provide teachers and other educators with baseline data showing exactly where stu-

dents are in reading and mathematics “The assessments will be very helpas they return to school after the ful coming out of the last year’s virtual disruptions to learning caused by the learning and establishing a very strong pandemic,” state Superintendent of baseline on where students are this fall,” Public Instruction James Lane stated Mr. Kamras told the Free Press. in early September.

Because the new tests are meant to Richmond schools Superintendent be a baseline, there are no pass or fail Jason Kamras expressed excitement grades, according to the state Departabout Virginia’s new approach focusment of Education.

Dr. Lane ing on student growth over the course Student growth measurement from of the school year. He believes this is a much last year were not strong in part because only better measurement for schools, families and 3,000 of Richmond’s 24,000 students took the divisions to use to understand what is working SOLs. Like Richmond, all area public school and what is not. systems, including Henrico and Chesterfield For this year only, the fall growth assessments counties, saw drops in student math and reading are based on content from the previous grade pass rates. They also did not do better than the level to assist in identifying unfinished learning state’s averages in either subject. from 2020-21 due to the pandemic.

Spring’s reading and math SOL tests will

capture student growth during this year, as well as providing data for use in calculating school accreditation ratings.

According to the administration, the new assessment will take the place of the traditional Measures of Academic Progress reading and math tests administered each year to elementary and middle school students.

Richmond School Board Chair Cheryl L. Burke, 7th District, has questions regarding the kind of support the state will provide as RPS responds to the academic assessment data.

“What about student trauma and mental health?

What is in place to address those issues, after learning loss, that go hand in hand with increasing academic growth?” Mrs. Burke asked. “What will be the plan and who will fund it—the state or school divisions?”

T:11" S:10.5"

Richmond Free Press

September 23-25, 2021 A3

family’s history and newfound family’s future. It’s your HBCU. That’s why Xϙnity recognizes the legacy, community, and importance of HBCUs. And now that gatherings are a little diϞerent, it’s time to reconnect to the culture. Just say, “HBCU,” into your Xϙnity Voice Remote to experience more HBCU.

Visit xϙnity.com/blackexperience to learn more.

00

L

Restrictions apply. Not available in all areas. Requires XŜnity TV with X1 and compatible TV box or XŜnity Flex and XŜnity Internet. ©2021 Comcast. All Rights Reserved.

CLIENT

COMCAST

FILE NAME: CMCCO21052M13_11x21_HBCU_MoreRefresh_RichmondFreePress_v01.

T:21"

They are a legacy. It’s the place you become, where you’re upliϖed by past generations. It’s your

S:20.5"

HBCUs are more than an education

Richmond Free Press

A4 September 23-25, 2021

News

New ‘Emancipation and Freedom Monument’ unveiling draws crowds, tears Continued from A1

volved in the fight to end Jim Crow, such as fiery newspaper editor John Mitchell Jr. and the Rev. Wyatt Tee Walker, a late civil rights leader and Chester resident who served as a lieutenant to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Several people shed tears during the ceremony, including elected officials.

The ceremony, itself, contained its own symbolism of resilience and perseverance. It began in a downpour of rain, with gloomy skies overhead, and ended with the sun beginning to peak through the clouds as the cloth was pulled off the statues.

The unveiling of this powerful new symbol of racial justice came just two weeks after the largest state-owned symbol of white supremacy and Black oppression — a state-owned statue of slavery-defending Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee — was taken down from Monument Avenue.

Gov. Ralph S. Northam, who ordered the removal of the Lee statue and engaged in an extended court battle to make that happen, called the new Emancipation and Freedom Monument a symbol of Virginia that “is reckoning with the ugliness and inequality of its past, a Virginia that has taken a deep, hard look at what we need to do better and how we can build a better future together.”

The monument’s creation was spearheaded by the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Commission, a state group comprised of 10 members of the General Assembly and eight citizens. Richmond state Sen. Jennifer L. McClellan has

chaired the group for seven years.

Before the ceremony, Sen. McClellan, who is credited with taking on much of the work to ensure the monument got done, said she felt like she had “birthed another child with all the labor pains and joy that comes with it.”

The program opened with Janine Bell of the Elegba Folklore Society performing a ritual African libation ceremony in honor of ancestors. The ceremony was punctuated with speeches, a solo of the song “Glory” by Dr. Janet Copeland and the choral music of the Rev. Donté McCutcheon and The Levitical Priests.

Mayor Levar M. Stoney joined in welcoming the Emancipation and Freedom Monument to the city.

“Richmond and Virginia have come a long way. And while there is still much to do,” he said, the monument shows “we are moving in the right direction. We are moving forward to a more inclusive and more equitable future.”

“This monument stands on its own, but it does not stand alone,” Mayor Stoney said. “It sends a powerful message to the rest of the world about our values — new Virginia values — that have been informed by the pain and by the suffering and righteous struggles of the people represented on the monument.”

Richmond Delegate Delores L. McQuinn, vice chair of the MLK commission, said, “In many ways, we are turning the page” in putting up a monument that recalls both “the tragedy and unyielding system” that enslaved people lived under and “also the triumph of a people.”

Along with honoring people

Free COVID-19 testing Continued from A1

calling the Richmond and Henrico COVID-19 Hotline at (804) 205-3501 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, or by registering online at https://bit.ly/RHHDCOVID. Testing will be offered while test supplies last.

COVID-19 testing also is available at various drug stores, clinics and urgent care centers throughout the area for people with and without health insurance. Several offer tests with no out-of-pocket costs.

A list of area COVID-19 testing sites is online at https://www. vdh.virginia.gov/richmond-city/richmond-and-henrico-areacovid-19-testing-sites/ The Virginia Department of Health also has a list of COVID19 testing locations around the state at www.vdh.virginia.gov/ coronavirus/covid-19-testing/covid-19-testing-sites/.

Want a COVID-19 vaccine?

The Richmond and Henrico health districts are offering free walk-up COVID-19 vaccines at the following locations: • Thursday, Sept. 23, 1 to 4:30 p.m. – Richmond Health District Cary Street Clinic, 400 E. Cary St., Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson.

• Friday, Sept. 24, 8 to 11 a.m. – Henrico West Health Department Clinic, 8600 Dixon Powers Drive, Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson.

• Tuesday, Sept. 28, 3 to 6 p.m. – Second Baptist Church of South Richmond, 3300 Broad Rock Blvd., Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson.

• Wednesday, Sept. 29, 1 to 4:30 p.m. – Eastern Henrico Recreation Center, 1440 N. Laburnum Ave., Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson; 3 to 6 p.m. – Clark Springs Elementary School, 1101 Dance St., Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson.

• Thursday, Sept. 30, 1 to 4:30 p.m. – Richmond Health District Cary Street Clinic, 400 E. Cary St., Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson.

Children ages 12 to 17 may only receive the Pfizer vaccine.

Appointments are not required, but individuals can schedule an appointment online at vax.rchd.com or by calling (804) 205-3501.

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

The United States has reached another grim milestone in the COVID-19 pandemic, with more than 675,000 deaths.

That surpasses the number who died during the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918.

Additionally, more than 5 million children in the United States have tested positive for the virus to date. In Virginia, there have been nearly 147,000 positive cases among children, nearly 1,000 hospitalizations and 11 deaths among those under age 12.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is to consider this week emergency use authorization of the Pfizer vaccine for use in children ages 5 to 11. Currently, children under age 12 cannot be inoculated. But with schools returning to in-person learning, states across the country are seeing growing numbers of cases and hospitalizations among youngsters.

On Sept. 10, Virginia reached the 800,000 mark of total COVID-19 cases.

On Wednesday, the state Department of Health reported 3,737 new COVID-19 cases for the 24-hour period, with a total of 843,212 cases statewide, 35,933 hospitalizations and 12,409 deaths. The state’s seven-day positivity rate was 9.8 percent. Last week, it was 10.5 percent.

On Wednesday, state health officials reported that 59.6 percent of the state’s population has been fully vaccinated, while 67.1 percent of the people have received at least one dose of the vaccine.

State data also show that African-Americans comprised 22.8 percent of cases statewide and 25.2 percent of deaths for which ethnic and racial data is available, while Latinos made up 14.5 percent of cases and 6.3 percent of deaths.

Reported COVID-19 data as of Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2021

Cases Hospitalizations Deaths Richmond 22,112 902 300 Henrico County 31,907 1,215 675 Chesterfield County 35,148 1,111 477 Hanover County 10,587 352 182

Regina H. Boone/Richmond Free Press

The monument was designed by Thomas Jay Warren of Oregon and shows a man, woman and child newly emancipated from enslavement. The man’s back is lined with scars from whipping and the woman is holding aloft a copy of the Emancipation Proclamation. The base contains the names and brief descriptions of 10 Virginians who contributed to the fight for freedom and equality before and after emancipation. They are slave rebellion leaders Gabriel and Nat Turner; Dred Scott, whose unsuccessful lawsuit for his freedom led to the 1857 U.S. Supreme Court decision declaring that people of African descent had no rights under the U.S. Constitution; William Harvey Carney, who fought with the Massachusetts 54th Infantry Regiment of the U.S. Colored Troops and was the first African-American to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor; and Mary Jane Richards Bowser, a spy in the Confederate White House in Richmond who provided useful information to Union officials. Also, the Rev. Wyatt Tee Walker, co-founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and chief of staff to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.; John Mercer Langston, Virginia’s first African-American representative in Congress; Lucy Simms, an teacher who advocated for universal education; John Mitchell Jr., the fiery newspaper editor of The Richmond Planet who led a boycott of Richmond’s segregated trolley system and was the first African-American to run for governor of Virginia; and Rosa Dixon Bowser, educator and women’s rights activist who founded the first African-American teachers association in Virginia and the Virginia State Federation of Colored Women’s Clubs.

“whose actions and resistance led them to the front lines of the fight for equal rights,” Delegate McQuinn said that the arrival of the statue shows the continuing effort to eliminate “systemic ideologies” that have undergirded oppression. She said her hope is that young people will come to view the statue and learn more about those who sought to create freedom for them.

Sen. McClellan said the statue reflects resilience and perseverance of the people who were oppressed but continued “to push on” despite setbacks.

The development of the monument is not an end point, she said, but an inspiration to continue “to push on until the words life, liberty and pursuit of happiness apply to all.”

The sculptor was unable to attend because of health rea-

sons, Sen. McClellan said.

Also missing was the person who sparked the idea of the monument, former Richmond state Sen. Henry L. Marsh III, a noted civil rights attorney who served as Richmond’s first Black mayor in the 1970s. Mr. Marsh is a former chair of the commission.

In 2012, he came up with the idea for a monument to help mark the 150th anniversary of

the Emancipation Proclamation. He won support from the General Assembly for the MLK Commission to take on the project, along with $500,000 in seed money to help secure design.

Sen. McClellan took over as chair in 2014 after Sen. Marsh resigned to become a state Alcoholic Beverage Control commissioner. He has since retired.

Along with working with the city and other partners to secure the site for the statue, Sen. McClellan also pushed the fundraising. She said more than $1 million was raised to cover the cost, primarily from area corporations, banks and individuals.

The initial plan had been to have the statue ready in 2019 in time for the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first enslaved Africans in Virginia.

But Sen. McClellan thinks the delay has been positive. She called it appropriate for the statue to make its entry in the wake of the upheaval from the pandemic and the global racial justice demonstrations sparked by the May 2020 police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.

Sen. McClellan dismissed concerns that the artwork would only be visible to those who deliberately go to Brown’s Island. She said the commission considered other sites, including one on Monument Avenue. In the end, she said, the preference was for a more intimate location that was away from traffic.

“We wanted people, especially children, to be able to come and reflect and interact with the monument,” Sen. McClellan said. “On Monument Avenue, you can’t do that.”

School Board rejects terminating contract for food vendor provider Preferred Meals.

The board learned last week that students were filling trash cans with the pre-packaged meals that were unappetizing and hard to identify.

At Monday night’s School Board meeting, Superintendent Jason Kamras reiterated the administration’s awareness of the substandard quality of the meals and Preferred Meals’ delivery performance, along with parents’ concerns and the wasted food and dollars spent on the contract.

Mr. Kamras said that, effective immediately, RPS School Nutrition Services supervisors are required to conduct a meal quality control check each week at all schools.

The checklist includes verifying receipt of school meals on the approved menu with the total meal required to meet nutritional standards; whether meals are being stored and served at the appropriate temperature and being served before the best served by date; that meals are meeting quality standards for taste, smell, freshness and packaging (sealed and free from damage); and recording what meals students are tossing out so adjustments can be made.

Supervisors will be required to document their findings and take photos, review their findings with their supervisor and implement corrective action as neces-

sary, according to Mr. Kamras.

The checklists and photos also must be sent to the director of School Nutrition Services.

However, School Board member MaMs. White riah L. White, 2nd District, offered a motion to cancel Preferred Meals’ $12.9 million contract in 30 days and contract on an emergency basis with local restaurants or vendors until a new contractor and staff are hired to prepare hot meals for students.

Board member Shonda Harris-Muhammed, 6th District, sought to amend the motion to include responsibilities for which the Kamras administration would be held accountable in resolving the food issue.

“We need the superintendent, as he works with Nutrition Services, to provide a contingency plan that identifies who the plan will impact and when the issue will be resolved,” Ms. Harris-Muhammed said.

However, board Chair Cheryl L. Burke, 7th District, who said change needs to take place, expressed concerns.

“If we let (Preferred Meals) go, by the end of the week what will our children eat?” Ms. Burke asked. “There is a lot to

be addressed, because what has happened with the meals is unacceptable.”

Ms. White’s motion, however, was rejected on a 5-4 vote.

According to Mr. Kamras, the adminisMr. Kamras tration is working with Preferred Meals to provide hot meals — not from scratch, but with items heated prior to serving — in all preschools and elementary schools during the next several weeks.

In order to make the transition and maintain COVID-19 safety protocols, RPS needs to hire one cafeteria manager and 24 food service assistants for the high schools; 27 food service assistants for middle schools; and nine cafeteria managers and 38 food service assistants for elementary schools.

In other matters, the RPS administration said there are 11 vacant bus driver positions, four of which are expected to be filled shortly.

Transportation for preschool students will begin Monday, Oct. 4, and extended day transportation will begin Monday, Oct. 11, officials said. Until then, parents will be responsible for their child’s transportation to and from school.

City registrar takes heat for delay in opening voting locations Continued from A1

“I’ve been advised I have to stick with that,” a disappointed Mr. Balmer said.

He received the advice as he prepared to seek approval Thursday, Sept. 23, from the Richmond Electoral Board to open the two satellite sites on Monday, Sept. 27, or three weeks earlier than the notice stated.

Based on public comments from board Chairman James Nachman, Mr. Balmer anticipated quick approval for the earlier date.

Mayor Levar M. Stoney, who was among several local officials roundly criticizing the delayed opening of the satellite locations, called the situation “unacceptable” in a statement released Wednesday.

“As mayor of this city and a former state official who has spent a good part of my public life fighting to expand voting rights and voting access, I am deeply concerned over the actions of the General Registrar to delay until October 17 the opening of satellite polling locations across the city for early voting,” the mayor stated. “There are simply no valid excuses for waiting one month into the early voting period of a statewide election season before making this access available to our citizens.

“I implore the Richmond Electoral Board to take swift action to remedy this unacceptable situation, so the voices of Richmond’s voters can be fully heard.”

To help people get to the Laburnum Avenue voting site, Mr. Balmer already has hired a shuttle service to provide round-trip service from City Hall. He said he is now talking with City Hall about getting financial help to add a similar shuttle to the Laburnum Avenue office from Hickory Hill Community Center, 3000 E. Belt Blvd.

Prior to the start of early voting on Friday, Sept. 17, Mr. Balmer had decided to follow the pattern of his predecessor, former city registrar Kirk Showalter, who opened the two satellite locations for early voting during last year’s presidential election about two weeks before the November 2020 Election Day. Given that turnout is always lower in a gubernatorial election year than in a presidential election year, Mr. Balmer expected that scenario to work for the public, though he quickly found out differently.

Complaints began pouring in after an estimated 200 people went to Hickory Hill Community Center last Friday expecting to be able to vote only to find the building locked.

City Council members Reva M. Trammell, 8th District, and Michael J. Jones, 9th District, went public with their concerns about the South Side location being closed for voting. They said Hickory Hill is more convenient and accessible for their constituents.

Richmond Delegate Betsy B. Carr, who represents much of South Side, also

issued a letter expressing disappointment that early voting had not started at Hickory Hill, given the General Assembly’s efforts to allow early voting and improve access to the ballot box.

Meanwhile, members of the public took to social media to complain or reached out to their elected representatives.

Mr. Balmer said he is impressed with the strong interest being shown in early voting.

He said that people likely anticipated the satellite operations at both sites would be open because they were open 45 days ahead of the Democratic primary election in June.

His office’s website fueled that expectation. Despite the published ads, Mr. Balmer acknowledged that the plan to wait to open the satellite offices did not get posted until Sept. 17, the same day early voting began.

The Free Press incorrectly reported in its Sept. 16-18 edition that early voting would be available at the two satellite locations based on information the Registrar’s Office previously had posted on its webpage.

Mr. Balmer said the situation has taught him to use as many outlets as possible, including social media, to get the word out about election operations to avoid the kind of problems that people experienced Friday.

“It created a lot of consternation that was not necessary,” he said. “I want to make sure that doesn’t happen again.”

Richmond Free Press

September 23-25, 2021 A5

Local News

City’s racism and segregation denied young boys use of whites-only pool for life-saving swimming merit badge in quest to become Eagle Scouts Continued from A1

were proud members of the multigenerational chorus of Ross supporters. The men also shared a lesser-known bond with Mr. Ross.

“We were his first Eagle Scout candidates,” Mr. Hopkins told the Free Press. “We unfortunately got denied. But he was always very proud of us, knowing what it took at that time to get as far as we did.’’

Mr. Hopkins and Mr. Roane each joined the Ebenezer program as Cub Scouts in the mid1950s. Together, they soared through the ranks.

By the time the two reached high school, they were covered in merit badges — more than 50 between them — all earned under Mr. Ross, and far more than the 21 badges needed to qualify for a shot at the pinnacle of scouting.

“That was a huge investment of time for William Roane and me,” Mr. Hopkins said.

“We took it very seriously.”

Yet the era, the segregated South of the 1950s and ’60s, held them back. As Eagle Scout candidates, the young men were required to clear one last critical hurdle — earning their life-saving swimming merit badges.

Mr. Hopkins said he and Mr. Roane were prepared to advance, but the era was not. In the Frederick Douglass District, the district under which Black scouting troops operated, there were no swimming facilities sanctioned as approved testing sites.

“We swam. We took it every summer at camp where we had to pass courses with the lifeguards,” Mr. Hopkins recalled. “All we needed was access.”

The Boy Scouts’ Robert E. Lee Council, the governing body over all scout troops — Black and white — at the time, barred Black scouts from swimming in whites-only facilities.

“It was terribly disappointing,’’ said Mr. Hopkins, a retired Air Force veteran and small business owner. “You take two impressionable young guys, dedicated since 1954 to 1965, Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts, Explorer. I remember what we had to go through to get there (on the precipice of becoming Eagle Scouts) only to have the rug pulled out from under us. It affected both of us. We talked about it all the time.”

Once the scouting district became integrated with access to authorized facilities, Mr. Hopkins said he and Mr. Roane had aged out of the program. “Our opportunity was gone,” he said.

Attorney George Keith Martin, senior partner

Photo courtesy of Marjorie Scott via J. Maurice Hopkins

This 1958 photo shows members of the Ebenezer Baptist Church Boy Scout Troop 478 with scout and church officials. J. Maurice Hopkins, front row, third from right, was 11 at the time. He notes that he was wearing a Cub Scout uniform because he was too short to have a Boy Scout uniform in his size until sometime later. William “Bunny” Roane, age 13, is in the front row, second from left. Scoutmaster Linwood D. Ross is in the back row, third from right.

at McGuireWoods law firm’s Richmond office, is one of Mr. Ross’ 20 Eagle Scouts. While he never heard the story of Mr. Hopkins or Mr. Roane, he believes it’s not only true but that their misfortune probably shaped Mr. Ross’ trademark insistence on excellence.

“He really, really pushed us,” said Mr. Martin, who advanced to Eagle Scout in 1968 at age 14. “Maybe one of the reasons was because of what happened to these men. It’s a travesty to think that they worked that hard and missed out solely because of one badge.”

In 2011, the Boy Scouts National Hall of Leadership welcomed Mr. Ross into its ranks.

His acceptance speech included the story of the two young men who had been his first candidates, said Mr. Hopkins, who attended the ceremony at Richmond’s First Baptist Church.

“He called us his ‘should’ve-beens’ and gave a brief explanation of what happened to our

chance,” Mr. Hopkins said.

“He knew he did his best,” Mr. Hopkins continued. “But I think he felt he let us down because, as a teacher, father figure and moreover a scoutmaster, which was his life’s work, he couldn’t get over the hurdles of racism, bigotry and the dysfunction of segregation.”

In the decades since, amid sweeping signs of social and racial progress, Mr. Hopkins said the hurt of such clear and purposeful inequality never completely dissolved.

“It affected both of us,” he said of himself and Mr. Roane. “We talked about it all the time, and then we carried it silently. Just one of those things.”

With the deaths of Mr. Roane in 2012 at age 66 and, most recently, Mr. Ross, the memory of a “should’ve been” achievement stings anew.

“There are a lot of circumstances in life where people could’ve been, should’ve been,

but weren’t,” Mr. Hopkins said. “My life wasn’t ruined because I was denied. But it happened, and it hurt. You don’t really forget.”

Shortly after Mr. Roane died, Mr. Hopkins went a step beyond remembering. He wrote a letter to the Capital District director of the renamed Boy Scouts Heart of Virginia Council pleading for posthumous Eagle Scout recognition to be presented to the Roane family.

The slight possibility of witnessing a decadesold “social injustice” suddenly made right propelled him.

“If you believe that there’s a chance, just a small one,” Mr. Hopkins said, “you don’t give up. If you believe in yourself, and you’re logical in your thinking, what do you have to lose?”

To his disappointment, the request was denied. The only formal reply was mailed to Mr. Roane’s widow, Mary. In a 2013 letter, a Heart of Virginia Council executive acknowledged that the men “came very close to earning and receiving the Eagle Scout Award,” and also, somewhat indirectly, that they’d likely also been victims of social injustice.

“I suppose that in a different place and time, with access to more local programs and facilities, that both of these men and many other young men, could have and would have completed the requirements to be Eagle Scouts,” wrote Bradford M. Neisheim.

Though the letter went on to note, “…we cannot retrace the steps they’ve taken,” it made no mention of Mr. Hopkins’ request for full posthumous recognition.

The Boy Scouts’ Heart of Virginia Council did not respond to Free Press requests for comment.

“From my vantage point,” Mr. Hopkins said, “a letter to his family recognizing the injustice would’ve been sufficient. I wasn’t asking for myself.”

With the death of Mr. Ross nearly five months ago, Mr. Hopkins is once again reliving and reluctantly retelling the story of what should’ve been. With each recounting, he balances the worry of sounding bitter against a lifelong passion for truth and fairness.

“I’m not bitter, and I’m not clinging to the past, I don’t think,” he said. “The truth is, I was probably the weaker swimmer,” he said with a slight chuckle.

“Maybe I would’ve passed to Eagle; maybe I wouldn’t have. But I’ll never know because I was denied my chance.”

WHEN YOU VOTE YES

RICHMOND WINS! NORTH SIDE

THE WEST END CARYTOWN

THE FAN EAST END DOWNTOWN

ONE Casino + Resort will be located in

PHILIP MORRIS

SOUTH RICHMOND and will create

ONE CASINO + RESORT PROJECT SITE

4,500 JOBS

1,500 PERMANENT JOBS & 3,000 CONSTRUCTION JOBS

and

$500 MILLION+

AMPT HILL

IN NEW CITY TAX REVENUE & COMMUNITY BENEFITS

for all of Richmond!

VOTE YES FOR ONE CASINO + RESORT NOW! Learn how to vote early at:

CASINORESORT.COM PAID FOR BY VOTE YES. RICHMOND WINS!

Richmond Free Press

A6 September 23-25, 2021 2nd Street 2021 FreePress_11x20 0916 HIGHREZ.pdf

1

9/16/21

1:25 PM

OCT. 2-3 • FREE ADMISSION

THREE STAGES OF GREAT MUSIC, ARTS, FOOD AND FUN! STAGE SCHEDULE 2021 Saturday, October 2

Sunday, October 3

WAVERLY R. CRAWLEY MAIN STAGE

WAVERLY R. CRAWLEY MAIN STAGE

11:50 - 12:35pm 1:10 - 2:10pm

1:00 - 1:30pm 2:00 - 2:30pm

(Sponsored by Virginia Union University)

(Sponsored by Virginia Union University)

N.F.U.S.I.O.N.Z. I Would Die 4 U; A Musical Tribute to PRINCE 2:30 - 3:00pm Dancing with Mama D 3:30 - 4:30pm DJ Drake and MC Choco 5:30 - 7:00pm Plunky & Oneness JOE KENNEDY JR. JAZZ STAGE 12:00 - 1:15pm Chet Frierson Quartet 1:45 - 2:45pm Sam Reed - Nina Simone Tribute 3:15 - 4:15pm Saxsmo “Stepping Out” 4:45 - 6:00pm Nathan Mitchell EGGLESTON HOTEL COMMUNITY STAGE 12:00 - 12:10pm 12:30 - 1:10pm 1:45 - 2:00pm 2:30 - 3:30pm 4:00 - 5:00pm

Welcome - Historic Jackson Ward Association- Janis Allen Young Prince Charles Richmond Urban Dance Company Bak N Da Day Drew Miles and Company

James Johnson Jr Virginia Union University Gospel Choir 3:00 - 4:00pm J Tucker and The Krewe 4:4 - 6:00pm Mighty Joshua JOE KENNEDY JR. JAZZ STAGE 1:00 - 1:50pm Ashby Anderson’s Vibe 2:10 - 3:10pm Larri Branch Agenda 3:30 - 4:30pm Jazz In The Spirit 5:00 - 6:00pm Curv Appeal EGGLESTON HOTEL COMMUNITY STAGE 1:30 - 2:00pm 2:30 - 3:15pm 3:50 - 4:30pm 5:00 - 6:00pm

Chiquita Cross DJ Milk D Glennroy & Company Testiphy Band

Festival Weekend Jackson Project Activities

The Festival is partnering with The JXN Project as they virtually "Unveil the Vanguard" by video released on Oct. 2 on their website and social media. For details, visit thejxnproject.com and follow @TheJXNProject on social media.

“2nd Street MIX” Weekend

Back again for another year, Radio One’s “2nd Street MIX” will get you ready for the festival by bringing you mixes from DJ King Tutt, DJ Drake, and DJ Lonnie B! Tune into 99.3/105.7 KISS FM on Sat., Oct. 2 from 4pm-12am and on Sun., Oct. 3 from 12pm-7pm.

Update on the Kidz Zone

Due to the highly interactive nature of the activities planned for the Kidz Zone, the Festival will not host a family area this year. We believe cancelling these activities is best for the safety of our littlest patrons.

Walking Tours

The Festival will provide FREE guided walking tours led by Gary Flowers. These 60-min tours leave at 1pm on Saturday and at 1pm on Sunday. Tour groups meet on the sidewalk at the Maggie Walker National Historic Site at 2nd & E. Leigh Sts.

PLEASE BE A GOOD NEIGHBOR

PRODUCED BY

For up-to-date information,

Wear A Mask

PRESENTERS:

Maintain Social Distance

Clean Your Hands

PARTNERS:

Be Vaccinated

venturerichmond.com #2street

CONTRIBUTORS:

FRIENDS: HARRELL & CHAMBLISS LLC & BALLATO LAW FIRM

Richmond Free Press

September 23-25, 2021 A7

THIS IS NOT THE TIME TO LET OUR GUARD DOWN. 6 ft.

Wear a mask over your nose and mouth

Stay at least 6 feet away from others

Avoid crowds

Find your free vaccine

We’re all tired of COVID-19. But with new and more dangerous variants of the virus here in Virginia, we have to stay committed to stopping the spread.

Please do your part by following the steps above. Find your free vaccine at Vaccinate.Virginia.gov or learn more by calling 1-877-VAX-IN-VA.

We’re not finished yet.

Paid Political Advertisement

Paid Political Advertisement

Democrat Joshua Cole has always put our families first.

As a Delegate, he has delivered for us.

• Expanded healthcare and reduced the cost of insulin • Increased the minimum wage • Voted to ban chokeholds and no knock warrants

Re-elect Delegate Joshua Cole because representation matters.

MAKE A PLAN TO VOTE EARLY

TODAY THROUGH OCT 30TH.

’

o rg e t y o u r

m

D on tf

a sk

!

?

Vo

g in person tin

ELECTION DAY IS TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2ND. FOR MORE INFORMATION, VISIT IWILLVOTE.COM.

PAID FOR AND AUTHORIZED BY COLE FOR VA

Richmond Free Press

Big Blue liriope in Church Hill

Editorial Page

A8

September 23-25, 2021

Haitians and a history of U.S. mistreatment The inhumane treatment of thousands of Haitian migrants encamped and stuck at the U.S.-Mexico border on the Rio Grande near Del Rio, Texas, is just the latest example of the double standard employed by this country regarding Black immigrants.

In recent months, we — the United States — have welcomed thousands of white-looking refugees from war-torn Afghanistan. We have put Brown children from Central America in cages in Texas immigration centers after separating them from their parents. And now we are putting Black migrants from Haiti on planes and sending them back to a nation wracked by poverty, damaged by earthquakes and rocked by political turmoil and instability as highlighted by the assassination of its president during a coup attempt in July.

Where is the compassionate immigration policy and treatment President Biden claimed he would institute following the out and out cruelty exerted by the former Trump administration?

The photos and videos of U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents on horseback using their long reins and mounts to chase, intimidate, control and reportedly whip Haitians carrying their possessions on foot through water and rocky terrain conjured images of America’s horrific past of using slave patrols and the Ku Klux Klan to terrorize African-Americans.

“This cruelty is utterly sickening … and all too familiar to those who are aware of America’s ugly history,” national NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson said in a statement this week.

“No person fleeing poverty and hunger should be treated in this egregious manner.”

Mr. Johnson called for the Biden administration to grant temporary protected status to those seeking refuge. And he called for the deplorable actions of the U.S. border patrol agents to be investigated and the agents reprimanded.

We wholeheartedly concur. There is no reason, justification or excuse for the mistreatment of the Haitians migrants, many of whom left Haiti after the devastating 2010 earthquake to find work in Brazil, Chile and Central America. But with opportunities drying up in those nations after the need for cheap labor expired and the pandemic set in, many of the Haitians headed to Mexico to gain entry into the United States after President Biden took office and pledged to undertake a more humanitarian approach to immigration.

According to published reports, many of the migrants have family in the United States. According to 2019 Census data, more than 1 million Haitians call the United States home, with large settlements in south Florida, New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Washington, Chicago and Detroit and growing communities in North Carolina, Georgia, Louisiana and Texas.

Recognizing the growing instability in Haiti, President Biden in May granted temporary protected status to about 150,000 Haitians already living in the United States. But it did nothing to help the thousands who fled Haiti in the wake of the assassination of President Jovenel Moїse and the 7.2-magnitude earthquake that shook that nation in mid-August.

And now, we find it deplorable that the United States is expelling the Haitians at the Texas border by the planeload and returning them to their homeland on the grounds of public health under a U.S. policy known as Title 42.

The NAACP and 343 other civil rights and advocacy organizations have appealed to President Biden to halt the deportations.

According to Human Rights Watch, documents the organization obtained show that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security warned that migrants and asylum seekers returned to Haiti may face harm, including “violent crime, kidnapping, political crisis and civil unrest.”

The organization also said that medical experts for the Department of Homeland Security filed a disclosure condemning the Title 42 policy in May, saying it “lacked a valid public health justification.”

Human Rights Watch called the expulsions of Haitians “discriminatory and abusive.”

“This violent treatment of Haitians at the border is just the latest example of racially discriminatory, abusive and illegal U.S. border policies that are returning people to harm and humanitarian disaster,” stated Alison Parker, U.S. managing director of Human Rights Watch.

While U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas announced after traveling to Del Rio this week that the agency is undertaking a disciplinary investigation into the treatment of the Haitian migrants there, we don’t believe that is enough.

We join with others in calling for President Biden to publicly condemn the actions of the border patrol agents and to go on record saying such behavior will be cause for termination.

We also call on the Biden administration to confront, address and overhaul the racially discriminatory immigration policies, including Title 42, and biased enforcement that historically have plagued our nation.

Right now, we take small solace in the monumental task of Vice President Kamala Harris, who earlier this year was directed

by President Biden to oversee efforts to address the root causes of migration into the United States from Central America. While she has pledged this nation’s aid in creating jobs and stability to help people feel secure in their homelands and lessen the pressures leading to migration, we hope Haiti can be added to her list for assistance.

The United States owes a big debt to Haiti going back centuries, but instead, we have a history of mistreatment toward Haiti and Haitians.

Haitians came to our shores to help fight off the British in the 1770s during our war for independence. And even after Haitians won their independence from colonial power France in 1804, the United States government never recognized the Black nation until 1862, when we were in the throes of our own Civil War over slavery.

The United States has never given Haiti the respect or aid it deserves. We have treated the nation with hostility and domination, including an invasion in 1914 that precipitated a military occupation lasting until 1934.

The U.S. military occupied Haiti again in 1994, when that nation’s democratically elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, returned from exile after fleeing a coup by the Haitian military. When he was re-elected in 2000, the U.S. military worked with the Haitian military to forcibly remove him from office and send him into exile once again — in South Africa.

In the 1990s, we also banned Haitian immigrants from entering the United States and put many Haitian refugees, including pregnant women and children, in a prison camp on the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, because they allegedly had the virus that causes AIDS. We are mistreating Haitian migrants again in Del Rio at the border.

It is time the United States ends its racially charged and illegal policies and tactics against the poor and Black nation and its people.

Our energies should be used to build, not to destroy.

We must demand change from our government when it comes to dealing with Haiti and its people.

Regina H. Boone/Richmond Free Press

Pass the Freedom to Vote Act

Republican-controlled state legislatures have imposed new voting restrictions. They are getting ready to create more safe congressional seats for Republicans through abusive partisan redistricting. They are undermining faith in elections with false claims about election fraud and demands for fake “audits.”

The good news is that there is new momentum in Congress and a new bill to protect our democracy. We need to get it passed.

The new Freedom to Vote Act would protect the right to vote, end unfair partisan gerrymandering and shine a light on the flood of dark money that allows billionaires to buy our elections in secret. It includes key sections of the earlier For the People Act, which passed the U.S. House of Representatives but was blocked in the U.S. Senate by Republican

filibusters.

The Freedom to Vote Act also addresses one of the worst things about some of the new voter suppression laws: Provisions that give state officials the power to override voters and overturn election results.

There are other good things in the bill. It would make Election

Ben Jealous Day a federal holiday. Every state would have automatic voter registration, early voting and drop box accessibility. These would be major advances in making voting more accessible to everyone.

Voting rights advocates are rallying support for the Freedom to Vote Act. One of the sponsors, Democratic Sen. Joe Machin of West Virginia, worked hard to come up with a bill that he could support. He still hopes to get some Republican senators to join him.

That is an uphill battle. Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has signaled

that no Republican senators will support this compromise. And he will use the Senate’s filibuster rules to prevent the Senate from passing election protections that are supported by huge majorities of the American people — something he already has done with the For the People Act. Ideally, voting rights should be a nonpartisan issue. Congress repeatedly passed extensions of the Voting Rights Act that were signed by Republican presidents.

But right wing politicians and judges have spent years trying to undermine the Voting Rights Act in the name of “states’ rights” or “state sovereignty.”

With help from right wing justices on the Supreme Court, states have imposed all kinds of new voting restrictions in recent years. The number of new restrictive voting laws jumped massively after former President Trump was defeated in last year’s presidential election. Grassroots organizing helped drive strong turnout among Black voters in key states, and Republicans have decided to respond by making

Global warming is real Record fires in Oregon and California. Floods in Houston and New York. Deadly winter storms in Texas. Droughts across much of the west. Flash floods in England and Germany.

Blinding dust storms in China.

One hundred year cyclones devastate Fiji and Indonesia. Deadly droughts across subSaharan Africa. Wildfires in Greece and Italy.

The year is not over yet, but in the United States and across the world, the toll in lives and destruction is growing in storms of biblical proportion.

The poorest peoples and the poorest nations are most at risk, but no one is insulated against the impact. The wealthy on Lake Tahoe are evacuated in the face of unprecedented wildfires. Texan oilmen struggle when record winter storms shut down the electric system. Wall Street bankers are hit with floods sweeping through subways and streets.

As the storms increase, food supplies and prices will be hit.

Millions will be displaced.

There is no longer any doubt about the reality of global warming, the dangers of it or the causes of it. Republicans who for years scorned the reality of global warming — Donald Trump dubbed it a “Chinese hoax” — now accept that it is real. Corrupted scientists paid by oil companies that argued the crisis wasn’t manmade, now quietly reverse their opinions.

Now the only question is: What will we do in the face of what the United Nations warns is literally an existential threat?

We can’t undo what we have done, but we can alter how bad the future becomes.

We can move to sustainable

and efficient energy systems, make production and housing and transport more energy efficient, replant forests, invent new ways to generate or save energy or more.

In its last authoritative report, the United Nations issued what it called a “code red for humanity.” The change must take place

Jesse L. Jackson Sr. over the next decade or we will seed calamities too horrible to imagine. Already this year, the town of Lytton, British Columbia, in Canada was erased by heat so extreme — temperatures reached 121 degrees — that it literally went up in smoke and was reduced to ashes.

Can we summon the awareness, the moral courage and the popular demand to meet this clear, present and growing threat to our lives?

During the next few weeks, Congress will face yet one more skirmish in this struggle between the blind and the aware, the corrupt and the alarmed, the powers that be and the powers that must be. Democrats in the House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate are now working to draft and to pass the core elements of President Biden’s Build Back Better Plan.

Central to that are the first major investments in addressing climate change — mass transit, electric cars, rebuilding housing, solar and wind energy, an end to fossil fuel subsidies, modernizing the electric grid, creating a civilian climate corps that can enlist the energy of the young to retrofit houses and plant trees and much more.

Republicans no longer deny the existence of the threat and admit that it is manmade in origin. Now they argue that it is too costly to do anything about it. They raise alarms that developing new energy and

electric cars and retrofitting homes will somehow hurt jobs and the economy, when in fact, the transition to sustainable energy will be a source of new demand, new invention and new jobs and growth.

Moreover, the United States would surely benefit if it became the leader in the new green technologies that surely will drive growth markets across the world. Plus, with their leaders convinced they will benefit politically if President Biden fails, Republicans have lined up unanimously to oppose the Biden plan. So, making progress on climate depends completely on Democrats.

With the Senate split 50-50 between the two parties, and Republicans unanimously opposed, Democrats must vote unanimously so Vice President Kamala Harris can break the tie to pass a budget bill that would contain the first major investments in dealing with climate change.

Deep-pocket donors are calling in their chips. When a politician like U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin, a Democrat from West Virginia, says he needs “greater clarity” and won’t support the Biden plan, particularly its measures designed to accelerate the transition to renewable energy by utility companies, he isn’t confused; he is compromised.

The legislative process is confusing, secret and arcane. It seldom generates headlines or attention. But right now, in the next few weeks, this Congress will decide if we take the first steps to address a threat already taking a rising toll in lives and destruction. The interests invested in stopping change are mobilized. The only hope is that we the people rise up to demand the change that is desperately needed.

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

The Free Press welcomes letters The Richmond Free Press respects the opinions of its readers. We want to hear from you.

We invite you to write the editor. All letters will be considered for publication. Concise, typewritten letters related to public matters are preferred. Also include your telephone number(s). Letters should be addressed to: Letters to the Editor, Richmond Free Press, P.O. Box 27709, 422 East Franklin Street, Richmond, VA 23261, or faxed to: (804) 643-7519 or e-mail: letters@richmondfreepress.com.

it harder for people to register and vote. That makes it clear that the new voter suppression rules have nothing to do with “election integrity” and everything to do with maintaining power at all costs.

The U.S. Constitution very clearly gives the federal government the right to step in when states undermine democracy with restrictive and discriminatory voting rules. That’s what Congress did more than 50 years ago when it passed the Voting Rights Act. President Biden and Democratic leaders in the U.S. Senate must do whatever it takes to pass the Freedom to Vote Act. With democracy and voting rights at stake, we cannot let Jim Crowera filibuster rules in the U.S. Senate have the final word.

The writer, a former national president and chief executive officer of the NAACP, serves as president of People for the American Way.

Richmond Free Press 422 East Franklin Street Richmond, VA 23219 Telephone (804) 644-0496 FAX (804) 643-7519 Mailing Address: P.O. Box 27709 Richmond, VA 23261 ______________

Founder Raymond H. Boone President – Publisher Jean P. Boone

jeanboone@richmondfreepress.com

Managing Editor Bonnie V. Winston bonniewinston@richmondfreepress.com

Vice President – New Business Development Raymond H. Boone Jr.

jrboone@richmondfreepress.com

Vice President – News Enhancement Jeremy M. Lazarus

jeremylazarus@richmondfreepress.com

Vice President – Production April A. Coleman

aprilcoleman@richmondfreepress.com

Staff Writers Fred Jeter, Frances Crutchfield Hazel Trice Edney Photographers Sandra Sellars

sandrasellars@richmondfreepress.com

Regina H. Boone

reginaboone@richmondfreepress.com

James Haskins, Rudolph Powell and Clinton A. Strane ______________

Vice President – Administration Tracey L. Oliver traceyoliver@richmondfreepress.com

Advertising Traffic Coordinator Cynthia Downing advertising@richmondfreepress.com classifieds@richmondfreepress.com

Advertising Fax: (804) 643-5436 National Advertising Representative NNPA ______________

Distribution GouffyStyle LLC ______________

Richmond Free Press is published weekly by Paradigm Communications, Inc. Copies of the Richmond Free Press (one copy per person) are free of charge at outlets in the Richmond area. Back copies are available at the Free Press office at $3 per copy. Bulk orders can be made prior to any upcoming edition at special rates.

A Publication of

PARADIGM COMMUNICATIONS, INC.

422 East Franklin Street Richmond, VA 23219 Telephone (804) 644-0496

Follow the Free Press on @FreePressRVA @RichmondFreePressUSA

Richmond Free Press

September 23-25, 2021 A9

Letter to the Editor

Why Virginia Republicans will lose in November One needs to look no further than last year’s presidential election results in Virginia to understand why Republican Glenn Youngkin will lose the gubernatorial race this November.

Former President Trump kicked butt in most of the state and lost it all in Northern Virginia. President Biden won Virginia with 54.11 percent of the vote to Mr. Trump’s 44 percent.

Republicans haven’t won a statewide election in Virginia since 2009 because they continue to ignore the Black vote specifically and the minority vote in general, especially in Northern Virginia.

I met with Mr. Youngkin and several of his senior aides in June and shared my thoughts on how to effectively and substantively engage with the Black community. Mr. Youngkin looked me in the eye and said, “I want you on my team!”

But there was absolutely no follow up.

For those who may not know my background, I am a graduate of Oral Roberts University with a degree in accounting and I

have a master’s in international business from George Mason University in Fairfax. I am the first Black in the history of Virginia to be elected National Committeeman of the Young Republicans. I have worked political campaigns for local, state and federal offices all across the country, as well as campaigns around the world.

In my business life, I have worked with some of the biggest names in sports, business, politics and entertainment, doing everything from crisis management, to writing speeches, to ghost writing editorials.

Last month, I was asked by a major donor to talk with a senior aide to Mr. Youngkin.

This donor was aware of my previous interaction with the Youngkin campaign and was not happy.

I agreed to speak with the aide, a 50-year-old who was born and raised in rural America. We had an hourlong conversation and it did not end well. After I discussed with him what I thought the campaign needed to do to get substantive support from the Black community, he responded that he agreed with

15 percent of what I said and that he knew more about Black folks than I did.

The Golden Age of substantive engagement with the Black community in Virginia politics was the early 1990s and ended as we ushered in a new century in 2000. This Golden Age was led by people like former Govs.

George Allen and Jim Gilmore, former Virginia Attorney General Mark Earley, former Lt. Gov. John Hager, former Congressman Tom Davis, former State Senator Jeannemarie Devolites, etc. You had private sector businessmen like Earle Williams, Gil Davis, Bobbie and Bill Kilberg who saw the value and necessity of investing in and engaging with Black entrepreneurs, and it worked.

Both Mr. Allen and Mr. Gilmore had “real” Black Republicans on their campaign staffs, as consultants and in their administration. We won two of the three statewide offices.

In 1997, Republicans, swept all three statewide offices — governor, lieutenant governor and attorney general. I, along with other Black people, had all of their private numbers and

COUNTY OF HENRICO, VIRGINIA PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO BUDGET FOR FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 2022 The County Manager’s recommended amendment to the budget for fiscal year 2021-22 are prepared and published in synopsis form solely for the purposes of fiscal planning and public information. Publication of this proposed amendment does not constitute an appropriation of funds for those purposes by the Board of Supervisors. Funds cannot be allocated or distributed until they are appropriated by the Board. The amendment consists of estimates and is a request submitted to the County Manager with his recommendations concerning the request.

The Board of Supervisors of the County of Henrico, Virginia, will hold a public hearing regarding the proposed amendments to the budget at a meeting on September 28, 2021, at 7:00 p.m., in the Board Room at the Henrico Government Center, Hungary Spring and East Parham Roads. The public hearing will be held pursuant to Virginia Code Section 15.2-2507, and is for the purpose of allowing the public to question and comment on the proposed amendments to the budget. All citizens have the right to attend and share their views on the proposed amendments within such reasonable time limits as shall be determined by the Board of Supervisors.

At the September 28, 2021, meeting, after the public hearing, the Board will consider approving the amendment to the Annual Fiscal Plan and appropriating funds, as applicable, for fiscal year 2021-22.

PROPOSED AMENDMENT ESTIMATED ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

were told to call them personally if we needed to speak with them.

The first Black governor of Virginia, L. Douglas Wilder, even tacitly supported the Republican ticket during these two cycles.

How do I know that the effort to substantively engage with the Black community paid off? Black support for these candidates was in the high teens and low 20s!

Black people are nearly 20 percent of the vote in Virginia and more than 20 percent describe themselves as Independent or with no party affiliation. This is according to a Virginia State University poll done last year.

Mr. Youngkin had a great opportunity with his campaign to return the Republican Party of Virginia back to the 21st century version of the Golden Age. But because they are more interested in staffing their campaign with Black people who make them “feel good” or “comfortable” versus Black people who know what they are doing, they are

about to experience the agony of defeat yet again.

There has been absolutely no substantive engagement with Black entrepreneurs, no engagement with Black women on the issue of school choice and vouchers, no engagement with people like Courtney Malveaux, Ashley Taylor or Patricia Funderburke Ware.

If you don’t know who these people are, then you have just proved my point.

What a tragedy that on Nov. 2, Glenn Youngkin and his campaign for governor will be found unprepared and unqualified for the moment that could have been his and Virginia’s finest hour.

RAYNARD JACKSON Arlington The writer is a Pulitzer Prize-nominated columnist and founder and chairman of Black Americans for a Better Future, a federally registered 527 Super PAC established to get more Black people involved in the Republican Party.

$ $ $ $

OPERATING FUNDS GENERAL FUND Circuit Court Clerk Information Technology Public Works Non-departmental Community Revitalization Total General Fund

$

WATER AND SEWER REVENUE FUND Public Utilities Total Water and Sewer Revenue Fund Total Operating Requirements CAPITAL FUNDS CAPITAL PROJECTS FUND General Services Recreation and Parks Public Works Non-Departmental Total Capital Projects Fund TOTAL REQUIREMENTS

5,253,142 9,406,977 5,741,377 18,460 2,434,586 22,854,542 762,207 15,000 1,645,600 2,422,807 25,277,349

$

259,550 350,000 11,179,292 500,000 58,424 12,347,266

$

17,870 230,000 20,302 29,194 1,124,914 804,343 1,571,420 870,452 2,305,048 51,275 2,782,458 9,807,276

$ $ $

700,000 700,000 22,854,542

$

$ $

500,000 777,000 1,112,207 33,600 2,422,807 25,277,349

A copy of these proposed amendments is available for inspection in the County Manager’s office at the Henrico Government Center, Hungary Spring and East Parham Roads, and is also available to be viewed on the County’s website at: http://henrico.us/finance/divisions/office-of-management-and-budget/ Given under my hand this 15th day of September, 2021.

Tanya N. Brackett, Clerk Henrico County Board of Supervisors

Richmond Free Press The People’s Paper

& 'SBOLMJO 4USFFU 3JDINPOE 7JSHJOJB r

Also Chapter 13 “Debt Adjustment” STOPS FORECLOSURES, GARNISHMENTS AND HARASSING PHONE CALLS

OTHER LEGAL SERVICES PROVIDED: Divorce, Separation, Custody, Support, Home Buy or Sell

Start with as little as $100

Call Rudy McCollum at (804)218-3614 24-7. Talk to an attorney for free

and get legal restrictions, fees, costs and payment terms.

Rudolph C. McCollum, Jr., Esq. McCollum At Law, P.C.

Mail to: P.O. Box 4595, Richmond, VA 23220 422 E. Franklin St., Suite 301, Richmond, VA 23219 (Franklin & 5th Sts.) We are a federally designated Debt Relief Agency under the U.S. Bankruptcy Code and we help people file for bankruptcy.

Web Address: McCollumatLaw.com E-mail: rudy@mccollumatlaw.com

The County Manager’s recommended amendment to the budget for fiscal year 2021-22 are prepared and published in synopsis form solely for the purposes of fiscal planning and public information. Publication of this proposed amendment does not constitute an appropriation of funds for those purposes by the Board of Supervisors. Funds cannot be allocated or distributed until they are appropriated by the Board. The amendment consists of estimates and is a request submitted to the County Manager with his recommendations concerning the request.

The Board of Supervisors of the County of Henrico, Virginia, will hold a public hearing regarding the proposed amendments to the budget at a meeting on September 28, 2021, at 7:00 p.m., in the Board Room at the Henrico Government Center, Hungary Spring and East Parham Roads. The public hearing will be held pursuant to Virginia Code Section 15.2-2507, and is for the purpose of allowing the public to question and comment on the proposed amendments to the budget. All citizens have the right to attend and share their views on the proposed amendments within such reasonable time limits as shall be determined by the Board of Supervisors.

At the September 28, 2021, meeting, after the public hearing, the Board will consider approving the amendment to the Annual Fiscal Plan and appropriating funds, as applicable, for fiscal year 2021-22.

PROPOSED AMENDMENT ESTIMATED ADDITIONAL RESOURCES $ $

32,128,759 32,128,759

CAPITAL FUNDS CAPITAL PROJECTS FUND Public Utilities TOTAL REQUIREMENTS

$ $

32,128,759 32,128,759

A copy of these proposed amendments is available for inspection in the County Manager’s office at the Henrico Government Center, Hungary Spring and East Parham Roads, and is also available to be viewed on the County’s website at: http://henrico.us/finance/divisions/office-of-management-and-budget/ Given under my hand this 15th day of September, 2021.

Tanya N. Brackett, Clerk Henrico County Board of Supervisors

$

SPECIAL REVENUE FUND Libraries Sheriff Circuit Court Clerk Commonwealth’s Attorney Police Social Services Mental Health/Developmental Services Capital Region Workforce Partnership Economic Development Community Corrections Community Revitalization Total Special Revenue Fund

for Equality Justice Opportunity Freedom

Keep paying on your house and car as long as you owe what they are worth.

COUNTY OF HENRICO, VIRGINIA PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO BUDGET FOR FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 2022

ESTIMATED ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS

for Equality Justice Opportunity Freedom

“Get A Fresh Start”

CAPITAL FUNDS Federal Revenue TOTAL RESOURCES

$

CAPITAL FUNDS State Revenue Private Sector/Donations Fund Balance Total Capital Resources TOTAL RESOURCES

and we fearlessly fight

Get rid of debts that you can’t pay.

ESTIMATED ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS

OPERATING FUNDS Federal Revenue State Revenue Local Revenue Private Sector/Donations Fund Balance Total Operating Resources

We stand

YOU CAN STILL FILE

Chapter 7 Bankruptcy

COUNTY OF HENRICO, VIRGINIA PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO BUDGET FOR FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 2022 The County Manager’s recommended amendment to the budget for fiscal year 2021-22 are prepared and published in synopsis form solely for the purposes of fiscal planning and public information. Publication of this proposed amendment does not constitute an appropriation of funds for those purposes by the Board of Supervisors. Funds cannot be allocated or distributed until they are appropriated by the Board. The amendment consists of estimates and is a request submitted to the County Manager with his recommendations concerning the request.

The Board of Supervisors of the County of Henrico, Virginia, will hold a public hearing regarding the proposed amendments to the budget at a meeting on September 28, 2021, at 7:00 p.m., in the Board Room at the Henrico Government Center, Hungary Spring and East Parham Roads. The public hearing will be held pursuant to Virginia Code Section 15.2-2507, and is for the purpose of allowing the public to question and comment on the proposed amendments to the budget. All citizens have the right to attend and share their views on the proposed amendments within such reasonable time limits as shall be determined by the Board of Supervisors.

At the September 28, 2021, meeting, after the public hearing, the Board will consider approving the amendment to the Annual Fiscal Plan and appropriating funds, as applicable, for fiscal year 2021-22.

PROPOSED AMENDMENT ESTIMATED ADDITIONAL RESOURCES OPERATING FUNDS Federal Revenue Total Operating Resources

$ $

28,370,889 28,370,889

CAPITAL FUNDS Federal Revenue Total Capital Resources TOTAL RESOURCES

$ $ $

49,947,360 49,947,360 78,318,249

OPERATING FUNDS SPECIAL REVENUE FUND Education Total Special Revenue Fund

$ $

28,370,889 28,370,889

CAPITAL FUNDS CAPITAL PROJECTS FUND Education Total Capital Projects Fund TOTAL REQUIREMENTS

$ $ $

49,947,360 49,947,360 78,318,249

ESTIMATED ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS

A copy of these proposed amendments is available for inspection in the County Manager’s office at the Henrico Government Center, Hungary Spring and East Parham Roads, and is also available to be viewed on the County’s website at: http://henrico.us/finance/divisions/office-of-management-and-budget/ Given under my hand this 15th day of September, 2021.

Tanya N. Brackett, Clerk Henrico County Board of Supervisors

A10 September 23-25, 2021

Richmond Free Press

Sports

Stories by Fred Jeter

VUU’s Jada Byers turns on the speed

Vice President Kamala Harris, a 1986 graduate of Howard University, opens the Howard-Hampton game with a coin toss, won by her alma mater.

Hampton beats Howard in the ‘Battle for the Real HU’ Even the moral support of Vice President Kamala Harris couldn’t save her alma mater, Howard University, last Saturday in Washington, D.C. With Vice President Harris presiding over the opening coin toss in which Howard called heads and won, the host Bison lost 48-32 to Hampton University in the first-ever football game played at Audi Field, home of Major League Soccer’s D.C. United.

Before a crowd of 14,577 fans, the game, traditionally known as the “Battle for the Real HU,” also served as the inaugural Truth & Service Classic.

Vice President Harris, who made a surprise appearance—at least to fans, is a 1986 graduate of the historically Black university in Washington.

Big South affiliate Hampton, now 2-1, has this week off before hosting Norfolk State University on Saturday, Oct. 2, at Armstrong Stadium.

MEAC member Howard, 0-3, travels to Moon Township, Penn., this Saturday, Sept. 25, for a noon kickoff against Robert Morris University.

Expectations were sky high for Jada Byers and, so far, he has lived up to them.

The diminutive freshman running back has been an ohmy-gosh sensation for Virginia Union University football.

“Jada’s a special talent,” said Panthers Coach Alvin Parker, who compares the newcomer to VUU’s all-time rusher, Andre Braxton.

“Like Andre, he turns it on when he gets the ball.”

Byers rushed for 201 yards and two touchdowns — including a dazzling 52-yarder — in the Panthers’ 49-7 win last Saturday over Virginia University of Lynchburg in the annual Willard Bailey Classic at Hovey Stadium.

Byers was named MVP of the game and awarded a trophy from Coach Bailey during the postgame celebration.

Coach Parker let off the gas early against VUL. The Panthers led 35-0 at halftime and 42-0 after three quarters. Had Byers played the whole game, it’s possible he would have challenged VUU’s all-time, one

game rushing total of 260 yards set by Judge Thomas against St. Paul’s College in 1976.

Byers has made a smooth transition from high school to the college gridiron. On the season, Byers has 333 yards rushing—tops in the CIAA— including 107 yards in VUU’s loss to national power Valdosta State University on Sept. 11.

VUU, now 1-2, is hoping for more of the same this Saturday, Sept. 25, when the Panthers travel to Charlotte, N.C., for a 1 p.m. kickoff against CIAArival Johnson C. Smith University.

Longtime opponent Johnson C. Smith is 0-2, with losses to Allen University of South Carolina, and Bluefield State College in West Virginia.

VUU has won the last four meetings with the Johnson C. Smith Golden Bulls and eight of the past nine. Smith is coached by native Richmonder Kermit Blount.

Byers hails from St. Joseph High School in Hammonton, N.J., where he set about every record there was to set. In four varsity seasons, Byers account-

VSU Trojans hoping for a win against Fayetteville State Virginia State University’s football team is hoping a bus ride down Interstate 95 will lead to its first football victory of the season.

Coach Reggie Barlow’s Trojans, after having last week off, will play the Fayetteville State University Broncos at 7 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 25, at Jeralds Stadium in Fayetteville.

It will be the first CIAA game for both teams.

Kimo Clark VSU is 0-2 following losses to LenoirRhyne and Ohio Dominican universities. Fayetteville, also idle last week, is 1-1, with a win over Elizabeth City State University and a loss to Wingate University of North Carolina.

Kimo Clark, a freshman from Florida, has 94 yards rushing for the Trojans and both the team’s touchdowns. He is averaging 6.7 yards per carry.

Mark Wright and Jordan Davis have alternated at quarterback for the Trojans, trying to replace departed three-year starter Cordelral Cook.

VSU and Fayetteville State last met on Nov. 11, 2017, with the Trojans routing the Broncos 42-19 in the CIAA championship game in Salem.

At that time, Cook passed for two touchdowns and Trenton Cannon ran for 186 yards and three touchdowns, including a 79-yarder.

Under Coach Richard Hayes, FSU won the CIAA Southern Division in 2017, 2018 and 2019 and is the division favorite again this season. The Broncos are 19-7 in CIAA action under Coach Hayes.

VSU is 22-6 in CIAA games under Coach Barlow.

Richmond Public Schools football scoreboard Scores from Friday, Sept. 17 James River High School 42, Huguenot High 0 Goochland 27, Armstrong 6 Monacan 49, George Wythe 0 Thomas Jefferson 29, Greensville 8 Petersburg 62, John Marshall 6 Game schedule for Friday, Sept. 24 John Marshall at Thomas Jefferson, 4 p.m.

Hanover at Armstrong, 7 p.m.

Clover Hill at Huguenot, 7 p.m.

George Wythe at Powhatan, 7 p.m.

Former Panthers football Coach Willard Bailey waves to the crowd during a halftime ceremony where he was honored at the Willard Bailey Classic. At different times, Coach Bailey led the football programs at both VUU and its opponent last Saturday, Virginia University of Lynchburg. At right is Joe Taylor, VUU’s vice president of intercollegiate athletics and community wellness.

Photos by Clement Britt

Virginia Union University running back Jada Byers is swarmed by Virginia University of Lynchburg’s defense last Saturday at Hovey Stadium. The freshman from New Jersey rushed for a total of 201 yards and two touchdowns during the game.

ed for a mind-boggling 6,309 yards total offense, including 4,950 rushing. He scored 74 touchdowns carrying the ball and a total of 102, a New Jersey record. As a senior, he was the The Press of Atlantic City Player of the Year.

In one game, he scored a Jersey record of 10 touchdowns against Morris Catholic High School.

He also was a standout defensive back, accumulating 144 tackles.

“We recruited out of high school,” Coach Parker said, “but my friends told us we didn’t have a chance to get him.”

Coach Parker’s determination on the recruiting front worked. Although Byers first committed to Sacred Heart University in Connecticut, he had a change of heart and came to VUU on Lombardy Street.

Byers has breakaway speed

and plenty of shake-and-bake, open-field moves, but what he lacks is size. He is listed at 5-foot-7 and 171 pounds.

That’s where the comparison to Braxton — also about 5-foot-7 — comes in.

“They’re similar in that they’re shifty and make you miss,” said Coach Parker, who played with Braxton in the late 1990s under Coach Bailey. “But I think Jada might be a little more dynamic in the passing game.”

Byers has four receptions so far for VUU. At St. Joseph, he had 73 catches for 1,295 yards and 16 touchdowns.

Hammonton, N.J., is only about 30 miles from the gambling resort town of Atlantic City.

With that in mind, it’s fitting Byers wears jersey No. 7.

So far, it has been lucky No. 7 for VUU.

Va. native, NFL Pro-Bowler Roger Brown dies at 84 Roger Brown was a big man with talent and ambition to match.

A native of Surry County, Va., Mr. Brown was a College Football Hall of Famer and six-time Pro Bowl selection with the Detroit Lions and Los Angeles Rams.

He died Friday, Sept. 17, 2021, at the age of 84.

After staring at Maryland State College, now the University of MarylandEastern Shore, Mr. Brown was drafted in the sixth round of the NFL draft in 1960 by the Detroit Lions. He went on the play as a defensive tackle with the Lions through the 1966 season and was traded to the Los Angeles Rams where he played until 1969. He was a six-time NFL Pro Bowl selection.

Standing 6-foot-5, Mr. Brown was among the first in the NFL to tip the scales at more than 300 pounds. He combined that size with speed and agil-

ity to rate as one of the top defensive tackles of his era.

While sacks were not an official statistic at the time, he had 14.5 sacks in 1963.

Arguably his best game was Thanksgiving Day1962, when he sacked Green Bay quarterback Bart Starr seven times in a Lions upset win. One of those sacks resulted in a safety.

In Los Angeles, he combined with Deacon Jones, Merlin Olsen and Lamar Lundy to form “The Fearsome Foursome.”

Roosevelt Grier earlier had been part of that intimidating defensive front.

Later in life, Mr. Brown became a restaurateur. He owned Roger Brown’s Restaurant and Sports Bar in Portsmouth and Cove Taverns in Williamsburg and Newport News. He also owned several McDonald’s restaurants in Virginia and Illinois.

Mr. Brown was elected to the Maryland-Eastern Shore Hall of Fame in

1982, the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame in 1997, the College Football Hall of Fame in 2009 and the Black College Hall of Fame in 2014.

Playing at Maryland State from 1956 to 1959, Mr. Brown helped the Hawks to a 24-5-1 record and the 1957 CIAA championship.

Maryland-Eastern Shore sent 30 players to the NFL, including such standouts as Mr. Brown, Art Shell and Emerson Boozer. The last Hawk to go to the NFL was star defensive end Carl Hairston with Philadelphia in 1976.

The school, a MEAC affiliate in Princess Anne, Md., no longer sponsors football.

NSU QB Juwan Carter setting records for the Spartans With quarterback Juwan Carter leading the attack, records tumbled in Norfolk State University’s 63-26 win last Saturday over Elizabeth City State University.

The contest also will be remembered as the initial victory for first-year Coach Dawson Odums. NSU started the season with road losses at Toledo and Wake Forest.

Carter, a redshirt senior from Highland Springs High School in Henrico, tied the NSU record for touchdown passes with five on Sept. 18 at Dick Price Stadium.

Carter connected on 23 of 30 aerials for

353 yards, including a 55-yarder to Justin Smith of Benedictine College Preparatory on the first play of the game.

Carter’s five touchdown tosses tied the school record set by Juwan Carter Maurice Selby in a 1998 game against Morgan State University.

Three times earlier in his career, Carter threw for four touchdowns in a game.

NSU’s 675 yards total offense set a

school record and the 63 points established a Spartans Division I mark.

Previous defensive marks fell, too.

NSU held the Vikings to a record minus 49 yards rushing.

The Spartans will hit the road again this Saturday, Sept. 25. NSU has a noon game against St. Francis University of Loretto, Pa. St. Francis has losses to Eastern Michigan University and University of Delaware and a win over Wagner University.

On Saturday, Oct. 2, NSU will travel to Hampton University to face the Pirates at 2 p.m. in the “Battle of the Bay.”

September 23-25, 2021 B1

Section

B

The new school year brings all kinds of concerns for students, even without the threat of an ongoing pandemic.

And while some concerns require specific solutions, the need for clothing is being met thanks to a mobile boutique, courtesy of Kisha Beaner Howcott and her group, Clothed by Love Mentoring.

Ms. Howcott, a Richmond native and special education teacher in Caroline County, hosts the boutique that has the feel of a store inside a trailer. It allows students to shop for new clothes free of charge.

The organization also provides mentoring, giving students in all grades tools for learning as part of its mission to provide youths with great fashion, life skills and the ability to build a positive self-image.

“Anytime I welcome students into our mobile boutique and give away clothes at community events, big or small, is a touching moment for me,” Ms. Howcott says. “I am thankful God is using me in this way.”

Clothed by Love was founded April 8, 2020, with its beginning tied to Ms. Howcott’s work with her former nonprofit, Victorious Ladies Ministry, and its outreach program, Blessed to be a Blessing Distribution.

Ms. Howcott combined the passion the former program fostered with her life experiences to create what she saw as a “God-given vision to provide support in helping our students overcome barriers, while encouraging them to reach their full potential.”

“When I was a single mother, I learned the importance of having a good support system and how to utilize my resources to meet needs,” Ms. Howcott says. “Then as an educator, I was able to see the needs of my students firsthand and I wanted to make a positive difference in the lives of students, especially those who were working so hard

Richmond Free Press

Happenings Personality: Kisha Beaner Howcott Spotlight on founder and CEO of Clothed by Love Mentoring for a better outcome in life.”

Clothed by Love Mentoring began out of the back of Ms. Howcott’s truck with bins full of clothes. The mobile trailer, acquired more than a month later, is easier and provides a better experience for those selecting clothes, Ms. Howcott says.

Further change has come as the group, which includes eight consistent volunteers, has expanded its services to providing life principles and skills to those they assist.

The program includes a reading enhancement program for students, with a virtual reading group for elementary and middle school students and a driver’s education study group for high schoolers and recent graduates to help them obtain a driving permit.

“I believe that God gave me a new vision so our name reflects what we do, clothing our communities with love,” Ms. Howcott says. “We recently added mentoring to our name because we wanted our communities to know that we offered other services besides giving away clothing from our mobile boutique.”

On Friday, Sept. 24, Clothed

by Love will host its first “Girls Night In” to assess the social and emotional well-being of high school girls and provide them with an outlet for advice.

Ms. Howcott already is looking toward expanding the program to include other age and gender groups, a testament to her commitment to Clothed

By Love and the communities it serves.

“We are here to be a blessing, so if we see a need then we try to meet that need,” Ms. Howcott says. “If it is a service that we provide, we ask that people reach out to us. Let us help the best way we can.”

Meet a person dedicated

to meeting the needs of young people and this week’s Personality, Kisha Beaner Howcott: No. 1 volunteer position: Founder and chief executive officer of Clothed by Love Mentoring.

Date and place of birth: July 21 in Richmond.

Where I live now: Varina in Henrico County.

Education: Washington and Lee High School, Westmoreland County; bachelor’s in psychology, Liberty University; master’s in special education, Grand Canyon University.

Occupation: Special education teacher, Caroline High School in Caroline County.

Family: Husband, Mike; son, Mike Jr., 29; daughter, Keyonna, 27; daughter Kiya, 15; and daughter, Kaliyah, 7.

Clothed by Love’s mission: Clothed by Love teaches Christian principles to support youth enrichment through mentoring programs that help youth dress

2021 Wilder School Symposium presents

The Triple Pandemic:

for success, develop life skills, and build positive self-image.

How Clothed by Love chooses the communities it serves: We are here to be a blessing, so if we see a need then we try to meet that need. We have had the opportunity to work with some wonderful organizations to combine our resources to meet the needs of the community. Let us help the best way we can. You can contact us on our website: clothedbylove.org, Facebook: Clothed By Love VA, or Instagram: Clothed_by_love.

How a community knows Clothed by Love is present: At community events, we usually pull up with our mobile boutique, which is a 7x16 enclosed trailer. You can’t miss us.

Reason for being mobile: I use to give away clothing before to help families in need, but I was doing it out of my truck.

It was hard work carrying around bins and loading them in and out of places. Having a mobile boutique is an easier way to manage and transport the clothes. I would say being mobile has it advantages because I can transform my trailer to cater to whatever need we are meeting.

Why being mobile is better than having a brick and mortar shop: That’s easy. I can reach those who might not have the means to reach me and they can still have the full experience of what we have to offer.

How Clothed by Love gets its clothes: I purchased a lot of the clothing in the beginning. We were able to find really good sales and deals so we would

stock up on items. I got a lot of items from Wal-Mart, Justice and Rainbow when we first started out. I did some research and came across an organization called Good 360, which connects nonprofits with stores that donate products. Thank the Lord, we are starting to get in donations and grants, but support is still needed. We still need to make connections and I pray that people will donate.

Is all of the clothing new: All the clothes in our mobile boutique are new. We do collect gently used items but we plan on doing what we call a “vintage pop-up” in different areas to give those clothes away. It will be set up just like a yard sale but the items are all free.

Clothed by Love’s most touching moment: Anytime I welcome students into our mobile boutique and give away clothes at community events, big or small, is a touching moment for me! I am thankful God is using me in this way. The families and community members have been so nice, for the most part.

Another touching moment was when a little girl told me she wishes she lived in the boutique.

I felt honored that she enjoyed her experience with us.

Upcoming events: We are kicking off our first “Girls Night In” on Friday, Sept. 24.

The purpose of this program is to check on the social and emotional well-being of our high school-age girls. We will provide them with an outlet to share and receive advice in a safe, non-judgmental environment through girl chats. We will have a theme each meeting that will educate them on a desired topic. On Sept. 24, our theme is skin care and how to apply makeup that is age appropriate because our teen girls are into makeup. We will have a makeup

artist share her expertise with the participants. We look forward to expanding this program over time to include other age and gender groups.

How I start the day: I usually start my day with my morning devotion. I meditate on scripture, pray and/or read.

Three words that best describe me: Encourager, considerate and trustworthy.

Best late-night snack: Ice cream or chips.

How I unwind: Watching a movie with my family.

What I am learning about myself during the pandemic: I believe that God has been preparing me for new opportunities and I have to step out on faith to reach those new levels.

I believe that during this pandemic, God has been drawing me near and I have been willing to be more obedient, but it is still a process.

At the top of my “to-do” list: Finalize the last details for our upcoming event “Girls Night In.” Best thing my parents ever taught me: Do your best, no matter if people are watching or not.

Person who influenced me the most: My mother. She is a hard worker and is so giving.

She puts forth effort in all she does, and she is always striving to make things better.

Book that influenced me the most: “Jump: Take the Leap of Faith to Achieve Your Life of Abundance” by Steve Harvey and “Destiny: Step Into Your Purpose” by Bishop T.D. Jakes.

What I’m reading now: “Woman Evolve: Break Up with Your Fears and Revolutionize Your Life” by Sarah Jakes Roberts.

Next goal: Full-time entrepreneur, walking in my destiny.

OPENING WEEKEND! VALENTINA PELEGGI, MUSIC DIRECTOR

DISCOVER

Implications for Racial Equity and Public Policy Thursday, Sept. 30

1-2:30 p.m. Virtual

Led by L. Douglas Wilder, 66th Governor of Virginia and distinguished professor Speakers will examine the convergence of major threats to public health, economic livelihood and access to justice during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic during this free, public event.

Topics will include: policing, housing, workforce development, disaster response, education, immigration, vaccine distribution, re-entry of justice-involved individuals and responses to public protests.

Florence Price

THIS SATURDAY @ 8pm THIS SUNDAY @ 3pm Valentina Peleggi, Conductor Louis Schwizgebel, Piano

ADOLPHUS HAILSTORK: Fanfare on Amazing Grace PRICE: Piano Concerto (in one movement) DVOŘÁK: Symphony No. 9 “From the New World” In 1932, the Chicago Symphony premiered a symphony by Florence Price—and she became the first Black woman composer to have her music performed by a major orchestra. Two years later she conceived a Piano Concerto, drawing on the joy of the spiritual and the jubilation of the dance. Remember her name—Florence Price. These concerts also celebrate the 80th birthday and amazing grace of Adolphus Hailstork.

O R D E R

T I C K E T S

STERLING ELLIOTT

R.S.V.P.

PLAYS HAYDN’S CELLO CONCERTO NO� 2 Saturday Oct 23 2021 @ 8pm Sunday Oct 24 2021 @ 3pm

N O W

F O R :

BEETHOVEN’S FIFTH Saturday Nov 13 2021 @ 8pm Sunday Nov 14 2021 @ 3pm

ALL CONCERTS ARE AT DOMINION ENERGY CENTER, CARPENTER THEATRE

TICKETS START AT $10! — ORDER TODAY 804�788�1212 x2 | RichmondSymphony.com

Richmond Free Press

B2 September 23-25, 2021

Happenings Local screenwriter hopes next stop will be Academy Awards

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

Henry K. Myers is realizing the dream of every amateur screenwriter – to see his words turned into a film.

The 64-year-old accountant and adjunct English professor at two area community colleges is now awaiting the release of a cinemagraphic version of “Jubilee Nation,” a political thriller he crafted last year on his home computer.

The producer is WILDsound Festival, which conducts screenwriting, music and photography contests and film festivals, and selected his script out of the hundreds that were submitted, he said.

“They’ve told me it is to be completed this month,” said Mr. Myers, adding that WILDsound plans to take it to other film festivals.

The finished video will feature stills and cartoons strung together as illustrations of the action while actors read the lines, he said.

As Mr. Myers describes it, his script is “about a political conspiracy that takes place in the 1960s in an all-Black nation” that was created from several Southern states in the aftermath of the Civil War. The Henrico County resident said he wanted to imagine what it would be like to live in a place in the United States where Black people were dominant and white people were the minority and occupying the lowest positions.

“It is what the world could look like if reimagined through an alternate historical lens,” he said.

He called it a response to the question of what would have happened if oppression and racial discrimination after the Civil War were erased.

He said the hero is a Black journalist, who with assistance from his white servant, “uncovers and foils a plot by white conspirators to overthrow the government.” The plot includes the exposure of the flaws of the reporter and his helper.

Mr. Myers said he also created a lead character “I had not seen on the screen before,” an urbane and wealthy Black man who has all the privileges but is still making his own way. In his script, the lead character is a descendant of the founders of the Black nation who “is still very human and a man of his times,” he said.

Mr. Myers said he was turned on to scriptwriting in taking a university course that offered an introduction to a range of writing, including for films.

He found he had a knack for it.

His previous short film scripts, “Night Heat” and “Naked to the Night,” have won awards in online screenwriting competitions. The Richmond International Film Festival named “Night Heat” a semifinalist in its 2019 script competition.

It’s pretty heady for a former high school dropout who was changed by the military.

At age 17, Mr. Myers said he sought to change his life by joining the Air Force, where he became an airplane mechanic. He also got his G.E.D. while in the military and said he went on to became a trainer of new mechanics and got into finances.

Though only a sergeant, he was so respected for his work that the Air Force promoted him to a job previously reserved only for officers, director of resource management for the Community College of the Air

Jeremy M. Lazarus/Richmond Free Press

Henry K. Myers crafts his screenplays at his Henrico County home.

Force, he said.

After 13 years, he left the military, returned to the Richmond area and became an independent bookkeeper and accountant, helping businesses and individuals keep track of their money and taxes.

After more 30 years in the field, Mr. Myers sought to open a new

chapter. While retaining some of his accounting clients, the Grand Canyon University graduate started taking writing courses. He said he also learned a great deal about scripts and movies in taking a position with the Virginia Film Office. He later landed adjunct positions at John Tyler and Reynolds community colleges.

And he turned his hand to scriptwriting. He said he is always bubbling with ideas for the next project. Like all film writers, he’s hoping one day that “I’ll be at the Academy Awards accepting an Oscar for best screenplay.”

Until then, he plans to spend as much time as he can turning his next concept into the stuff that films are made of.

Kattz Angelz to host anti-violence car and motorcycle parade Sept. 25

Photos by Regina H. Boone/Richmond Free Press

Remembering the good ol’ days Members of the Armstrong High School Class of 1966 celebrated their 55th class reunion last weekend with a bevy of activities that started with a “Meet and Greet” and Fish Fry at Hobson Lodge in South Side. Getting reacquainted here are Milton Courts and the Rev. Charlene Mills Watkins, who was Miss Armstrong 1965-66. There was food, music and mingling as people looked at memorabilia gathered by the class historian and displayed during the reunion, including bricks from the original Armstrong building, old photos of faculty and students and a flag that once flew over the building on North 33rd Street before it was razed in 2016 to

make way for new homes and apartments. The school name lives on at the former Kennedy building at Cool Lane in the East End. Steering committee members Velesto Highsmith Courts, chair; William Booker Jr., vice chair; Dennis Harvey, class historian; and Vera Smith hold up a vintage Armstrong High School marching band uniform bearing the Wildcats mascot that was found in the old building before it was demolished. The nearly 70 participants received “The Spirit of Armstrong” calendars that feature old class photos and reunion photos, along with the birthdates of class members marked with their names and graduation pictures.

Motorcycles and cars will parade through the city on Saturday, Sept. 25, to promote an end to violence in low-income areas and to raise money for families of victims of shootings, it has been announced.

This is the fifth edition of the event that the motorcycle group Kattz Angelz stages each year to spread the anti-violence message, according to the group’s president, LaTasha Kenney.

“The purpose is to encourage people to stop the violence and take their communities back from predators,” she said.

The ride will begin at 11 a.m. in the parking lot of the Roses store, 3000 Mechanicsville Turnpike in Henrico County. It will take about 75 minutes and will end at the Steel Horse Harley-Davidson outlet at 11501 Hull Street Road in Chesterfield County, Ms. Kenney said.

The parade will visit the major public housing communities in Richmond before traveling to the end point, Ms. Kenney said, where there will be free food and entertainment from DJ Shawn “Sandman” Minor.

The ride is open to all, Ms. Kenney said. The cost to participate is $15 per vehicle, with the proceeds being used to provide support to two families, one in Richmond and one in Petersburg, who have lost loved ones to violence.

Registration will take place 9 to 10:45 a.m. in the Roses parking lot prior to the ride, she said.

Ms. Kenney said the ride carries on the mission of the late bike rider Elka “Phat Kat” Johnson, who conceived of holding such an event after her son was murdered, but she died before the first one was held in 2017. Ms. Kenney said she and Kattz Angelz hold the event in Ms. Johnson’s memory.

Details: Ms. Kenney, (804) 651-5762.

DIAMONDS • WATCHES JEWELRY • REPAIRS 19 EAST BROAD STREET RICHMOND, VA 23219 (804) 648-1044

WWW.WALLERJEWELRY.COM

Beyoncé and Jay-Z give $2M to NSU, 4 other HBCUs Free Press wire report

The music industry’s power couple Jay-Z and Beyoncé have pledged $2 million in scholarship funds for art and creative students at five HBCUs, including Norfolk State University.

In addition to NSU, the program, which is part of the couple’s “ABOUT LOVE” campaign, will award money to students in the creative fields at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, Bennett College in North Carolina, the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff and Central State University in Ohio.

The project is a collaboration between the couple’s foundations,

the BeyGood and Shawn Carter foundations, and the luxury jewelry company Tiffany & Co. Students must qualify for financial aid at their respective HBCU for eligibility, with those with the most financial need having priority. Applicants must be pursuing degrees in creative fields such as visual arts, media, performance and design or degrees in history and communications.

The amount of the scholarships will vary based on the amount of financial assistance the student requires.

Applications will be accepted on the five HBCUs’ websites until 11:59 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 26.

About 1 in 12 African Americans have

Sickle Cell Trait.

‘Coming Out of the Corona Crab & Q’ event slated for Sept. 26 Free crabs and barbeque will be served Sunday, Sept. 26, at “Coming Out of the Corona Crab & Q,” an event sponsored by several community organizations aimed at getting out the vote, stopping violence in the community, calling for new city schools to be built and getting people vaccinated against the coronavirus.

The event will be held 1 to 6 p.m. outside the Bacon Retirement Community, 815 N. 35th St. Sponsors include James E. “JJ” Minor

III, the Richmond Branch NAACP, the Help Me Help You Foundation, United Communities Against Crime, Molina Healthcare, Bon Secours Richmond, the Richmond, Va., chapter of the Continental Societies Inc. and the 804 Car Club.

Mr. Minor said members of the car club will ride through communities in Richmond and Henrico encouraging people to vote in the November elections and to stop the violence plaguing many communities.

The motorcade will return to the event, where free food, entertainment and flu and COVID-19 vaccines will be offered.

Several elected officials and community groups will be recognized with awards, including Gov. and Mrs. Ralph S. Northam, the Virginia Legislative Black Caucus, City Councilman Michael Jones and the Rev. Tyrone Nelson, the Varina District supervisor on the Henrico County Board of Supervisors.

Details: (804) 677-7340.

When two people with Sickle Cell Trait have a child, there is a 1 in 4 chance with each pregnancy, that the child will have a painful life threatening disease called Sickle Cell Disease.

Do you have Sickle Cell Trait?

GET TESTED! For more information, call SICKLE CELL ASSOCIATION OF RICHMOND - OSCAR 804-321-3311

Richmond Free Press

September 23-25, 2021 B3

Faith News/Directory

BlackTop youth program loses gym space

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

A private South Side youth program that won plaudits and a $500,000 city grant for its virtual school operation that served more than 80 students daily during the 2020-21 school year has been evicted from its home in a church gymnasium and is scrambling to find a new location for its operations.

The BlackTop Kings and Queens Youth Sports Academy and Virtual Learning Center lost its space Sept. 3 as it geared up to again provide virtual classes, according to Arthur E. “Manny” Harris Jr., the founder and director of the program.

For the past seven years, BlackTop has been based at 318 N. 19th St. in the gym on the campus of United Nations Church, which purchased the campus three years ago from the financially struggling Richmond Christian Center (RCC).

“We were set to open our virtual academy for the new year,” said Mr. Harris, “but then we were closed down.”

The church has confirmed that Mr. Harris no longer has permission to use the gym.

Bishop Orrin K. Pullings, founding pastor of United Nations, said that the decision to end Mr. Harris’ use of the property capped three years of disputes between Mr. Harris and the church that began soon after United Nations moved in.

However, Bishop Pullings said the church plans to renovate the building and open its own community youth center in the space.

Meanwhile, Mr. Harris, who lost his bid Sept. 14 for a court order to temporarily reinstate his program, said he is now looking for a new location to resume the virtual school and after-school sports academy.

He said one option would be to use space at Franklin Military Academy.

The owner of an irrigation company, Mr. Harris in 2012 started the after-school sports program for low-income youths in honor of his late mother.

Two years later, he moved the program to the closed gym on the RCC property and has been there ever since.

He began the program to provide a low-cost option for child care through a weekday and weekend youth basketball program.

After the pandemic hit, he added the virtual academy to aid low-income children who were struggling to take classes via computer at home after the schools were closed. He said he did not charge parents for sending their children to the virtual school.

City Councilwoman Stephanie A. Lynch was among the cheerleaders for the program.

She recommended BlackTop’s virtual school to constituents in the 5th District who were struggling to home school their children.

The program was selected as a recipient of a city grant to support the virtual academy.

The city allocated a share of the federal CARES Act funding to BlackTop and other community providers to expand child care and daytime educational services after Richmond Public Schools only agreed to allow nonprofits like the YMCA to offer virtual schooling to a few hundred children in five buildings.

Bishop Pullings said the church supported the youth programs but was concerned about Mr. Harris’ repeated flouting of the rules, particularly regarding subleasing the space to others.

To help finance his youth operation, Mr. Harris said he staged a variety of affairs, including birthday parties, Latino basketball tournaments and other events and subleased the space to others.

However, Bishop Pullings said Mr. Harris often did not get the required church permission before subleasing. “He was warned over and over again,” the bishop said. “We can’t have just any type of event on church property. He needed permission from our board to sublease.”

Courtesy of United Nations Church

United Nations Church, which owns the gymnasium BlackTop Kings & Queens Sports Academy and Virtual Learning Center was renting on West 19th Street at the rear of the church’s South Side campus, plans to renovate the nowempty building for the church’s own youth programming.

Matters came to a head in June after Mr. Harris confirmed that he allowed a promoter of a risqué affair, dubbed “Buns and Basketball.” The ticketed event involved scantily clad women playing basketball.

Mr. Harris said he notified Ujima Properties, the firm that manages the church’s leased space, of the event. However, Bishop Pullings said Ujima was not authorized to approve such a sublease. He said he and other church elders had to provide such approval. He said Mr. Harris did not seek such permission.

Bishop Pullings said he found out when he came to the campus the night of the affair with several family members and was confronted by an armed security guard who would not let him in until he called Richmond Police.

In the aftermath, Bishop Pullings said Mr. Harris was notified that the church planned to regain possession of the gym.

After Mr. Harris protested that his forced departure would disrupt his scheduled summer youth program, Bishop Pullings said Mr. Harris was allowed to continue to operate through

August.

Mr. Harris was notified, though, that his program’s use of the gym would terminate Sept. 3, according to a letter that was sent to him. Mr. Harris was on a month-to-month rental arrangement. The church only had to provide a 30-day notice to end the arrangement with him.

Bishop Pullings said the church went to Richmond General District Court in August to gain an order allowing enforcement of the deadline and then

had the locks changed when Mr. Harris had not moved BlackTop’s equipment and other belongings from the space.

Bishop Pullings said the church is more than willing to set up times and dates with Mr. Harris to recover BackTop’s belongings.

The bishop said Mr. Harris, despite the disagreement, has shown the importance of youth programming in the gym.

“We have been considering what kind of youth programming we should offer,” Bishop

Pullings said. “We have totally reimagined this space. Our plan is to create a place that would introduce young people to career drivers such as sports technology, engineering, arts and music. Our goal is to create a complete youth center that would offer more than basketball.”

Moore Street Missionary

Riverview

Sunday, September 26, 2021 Morning Worship 10:00 am

Sunday School – 9:30 AM Sunday Services – 11:00 AM

Speaker: Minister Sherwood Randolph, Jr.

Baptist Church

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

Dr. Alonza L. Lawrence, Pastor

All church ac�vi�es are canceled un�l further no�ce.

Follow us on Facebook for “A Word from Moore Street’s Pastor” and weekly Zoom worship info.

Drive-thru giving will be available the 1st and 3rd Saturday from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. at the church. (Bowe Street side) You also may give through Givelify.

Be safe. Be blessed.

Le�’s Celebrat� ANNUAL

Men’s Day Theme:

Baptist Church Via Conference Call ( ) - Pin 572890# Also Visit Us On Facebook Sunday Service – 11:00 AM 2604 Idlewood Avenue Richmond, Va. 23220 (804) 353-6135 www.riverviewbaptistch.org

#

Rev. Dr. Stephen L. Hewlett, Pastor

Your Greatest Strength

Scripture : 2 Corinthians:12:9-10

Associate Minister: Cedar Street Baptist Church

Drive In (weather permitting) or join us on Facebook UBCSOUTHRICHMOND

Union Baptist Church

1813 Everett Street Richmond, Virginia 23224 804-231-5884 Reverend Robert C. Davis, Pastor

“The Church With A Welcome”

Good Shepherd Baptist Church

500 E. Laburnum Avenue, Richmond, VA 23222 www.sharonbaptistchurchrichmond.org (804) 643-3825 Rev. Dr. Paul A. Coles, Pastor

1127 North 28th St., Richmond, VA 23223 s Office: (804) 644-1402

Sharon Baptist Church

Sundays Morning Worship 10:00 A.M.

Back Inside

Dr. Sylvester T. Smith, Pastor “There’s A Place for You”

Due to the COVID-19 Corona Virus All regular activities have been suspended until further notice.

Visit https://youtu.be/qqzhnIEQyQc for inspirational messages from Pastor Smith

7M\XL &ETXMWX 'LYVGL 8LIQI JSV 1SFMPM^MRK *SV 1MRMWXV] 6IJVIWLMRK 8LI 3PH ERH )QIVKMRK 8LI 2I[ A 21st Century Church With Ministry For Everyone

5106 Walmsley Blvd., Richmond, VA 23224 804-276-2740 • 804-276-6535 (fax) www.BRBCONLINE.org

“Due to the Corona Virus Pandemic, Services Are Cancelled, until further notice; but, please join us, by visiting BRBCOnline.org or YouTube (Broad Rock Baptist Church).”

Pastor Kevin Cook

Worship With Us This Week!

Christian Education Sunday Preacher of the Hour: Rev. Jackie Anderson Sept. 26, 2021 @ 9:30 A.M.

Parking Lot or Virtual

Join us online at mmbcrva.org or Facebook.com/mmbcrva *Faith Formation/ Church School (Sat. @ 9:00 AM) Zoom Meeting ID: 952 9164 9805 /Passcode: 2901 *Bible Study (Wed. @ 7:00 PM) Zoom Meeting ID: 983 8639 0975/ Password: 012563 *Give Via: http://mmbcrva.org/give Or through Givelify

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

Come worship with us!

Sunday Service will not be held in our sanctuary.

Join us for 11:00 AM Worship by going to our website www.sixthbaptistchurch.org

Broad Rock Baptist Church

“MAKE IT HAPPEN”

We Embrace Diversity — Love For All!

Twitter sixthbaptistrva

Rev. Dr. Yvonne Jones Bibbs, Pastor

Thirty-first Street Baptist Church

nce with Reverence Worship With UselThis evaWeek R g in Rev. Dr. Joshua Mitchell, Senior Pastor bin ❖ om C

The doors of the church are open for worship!

No registration required.

Join us in person or online on Facebook or YouTube

10:30 a.m. Sundays

823 North 31st Street Richmond, VA 23223 (804) 226-0150 Office

Weekly Worship: Sundays @ 10:30 A.M. Church School: Sundays @ 9:00 A.M.

400 South Addison Street Richmond, Va. 23220

(near Byrd Park)

(804) 359-1691 or 359-3498 Facebook Fax (804) 359-3798 sixthbaptistrva www.sixthbaptistchurch.org

Antioch Baptist Church “Redeeming God’s People for Gods Purpose”

1384 New Market Road, Richmond, Virginia 23231 | 804-222-8835

SERVICES

SUNDAY WORSHIP HOUR – 10:00 A.M. CHILDREN’S CHURCH & BUS MINISTRY AVAILABLE SUNDAY SCHOOL (FOR ALL AGES) – 9:00 A.M. TUESDAY MID-DAY BIBLE STUDY – 12 NOON WEDNESDAY MID-WEEK PRAYER & BIBLE STUDY – 7:00 P.M. A MISSION BASED CHURCH FAMILY EXCITING MINISTRIES FOR CHILDREN, YOUTH, YOUNG ADULTS & SENIOR ADULTS BIBLE REVELATION TEACHING DIVERSE MUSIC MINISTRY LOVING, CARING ENVIRONMENT

DR. JAMES L. SAILES PASTOR

Richmond Free Press

B4 September 23-25, 2021

Legal Notices Continued from previous column

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, October 4, 2021 at 1:30 p.m. and the Council of the City of Richmond has scheduled a public hearing on Monday, October 11, 2021 at 6:00 p.m. in the Council Chamber on the Second Floor of City Hall, located at 900 East Broad Street, Richmond, Virginia, to consider the following ordinances: Ordinance No. 2021-237 To close, to public use and travel, two alleys bounded by East Jackson Street, North 8th Street, East Leigh Street, and North 7th Street, consisting of 8,665± square feet, upon certain terms and conditions.

Ordinance No. 2021-250 To amend and reordain Ord. No. 76-301-266, adopted Nov. 22, 1976, as previously amended

by Ord. No. 87-265-259, adopted Dec. 21, 1987, Ord. No. 92-81-221, adopted Jun. 23, 1992, and Ord. No. 2018-052, adopted Mar. 26, 2018, granting authorization for a special use of the property containing 7.564 acres located at the southwest corner of the intersection of Jahnke Road and Blakemore Road, to authorize the use of a portion of the existing shopping center to contain an automated teller machine with exterior access, under certain terms and conditions.

The property is situated in an R-3 Single-Family Residential District. The Richmond 300 Master Plan designates the future land use category for the subject property as Community MixedUse. Primary Uses: Retail/office/personal service, multi-family residential, cultural, and open space. Secondary Uses: Single-family houses, institutional, and government.

Ordinance No. 2021-251 To amend and reordain Ord. No. 98-248-318, adopted Oct. 12, 1998, which authorized the special use of the property known as 6424 Elkhardt Road for the conversion of an existing office for use as a contractor’s shop with accessory outdoor storage, to authorize a convenience store, upon certain terms and conditions. The property is situated in an RO-1 Residential Office District.

The Richmond 300 Master Plan designates the future land use category for the subject property as Residential.

Primary Uses: Singlefamily houses, accessory dwelling units, and open space. Secondary Uses: Duplexes and small multifamily buildings (typically 3-10 units), institutional, and cultural. Secondary uses may be found along major streets.

Ordinance No. 2021-252 To amend and reordain Ord. No. 2021-030 adopted March 8, 2021 which authorized the special use of the property known as 1919 Wilmington Avenue for the purpose of no more than one dwelling unit within an accessory building to an existing single-family dwelling, upon certain terms and conditions.

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

Secondary uses may be found along major streets. The density of the proposed development is approximately 11 units per acre.

the purpose of a mixeduse building containing commercial space and up to ten dwelling units, and up to eight singlefamily attached dwellings, upon certain terms and conditions. The City’s Richmond 300 Master Plan designates a future land use for the subject property as Community Mixed Use. Primary Uses: Retail/office/personal service, multi-family residential, cultural, and open space. Secondary Uses: Single-family houses, institutional, and government. The density of the proposed new residential units would be 40 units per acre.

Ordinance No. 2021-255 To authorize the special use of the property known as 901 Lake Road for the purpose of a twofamily detached dwelling, upon certain terms and conditions. The property is situated in an R-5 SingleFamily Residential District.

The Richmond 300 Master Plan designates the future land use category for the subject property as Residential.

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

The density of the proposed development is approximately 14 units per acre.

Ordinance No. 2021-256 To authorize the special use of the property known as 706 Libbie Avenue for the purpose of an office use, upon certain terms and conditions.

The property is situated in an R-4 Single-Family Residential District. The Richmond 300 Master Plan designates the future land use category for the subject property as Community Mixed Use. Primary Uses: Retail/office/personal service, multi-family residential, cultural, and open space. Secondary Uses: Single-family houses, institutional, and government.

Ordinance No. 2021-257 To authorize the special use of the property known as 801 Lincoln Avenue for the purpose of an accessory dwelling unit within a single-family detached dwelling, upon certain terms and conditions. The property is situated in an R-5 SingleFamily Residential District.

The Richmond 300 Master Plan designates the future land use category for the subject property as Residential.

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

The density of the proposed development is approximately 13 units per acre.

Ordinance No. 2021-258 To authorize the special use of the property known as 1308 North 23rd Street for the purpose of a singlefamily detached dwelling, upon certain terms and conditions. The property is situated in an R-6 Single-Family Attached Residential District. The Richmond 300 Master Plan designates the future land use category for the subject property as Neighborhood MixedUse. Primary Uses: Single-family homes, accessory dwelling units, duplexes, small multi-family buildings (typically 3-10 units) and open space. Secondary Uses: Large multi-family buildings (10+ units), r e t a i l / o ff i c e / p e r s o n a l service, institutional, cultural and government.

The density of the proposed development is approximately 14 units per acre.

Ordinance No. 2021-259 To authorize the special use of the property known as 1615 Rear Hanover Avenue for the purpose of up to ten garages as principal uses, upon certain terms and conditions. The property is situated in an R-6 Single-Family Attached Residential District. The Richmond 300 Master Plan designates the future land use category for the subject property as Neighborhood MixedUse. Primary Uses: Single-family homes, accessory dwelling units, duplexes, small multi-family buildings (typically 3-10 units) and open space. Secondary Uses: Large multi-family buildings (10+ units), retail/ office/personal service, institutional, cultural and government.

Continued from previous column

Richmond 300 Master Plan designates a future land use for the subject property as Residential.

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

Secondary uses may be found along major streets. The density of the proposed development is approximately 8 units per acre.

Ordinance No. 2021-261 To authorize the special use of the property known as 105 South Laurel Street for the purpose of up to three single-family attached dwellings, upon certain terms and conditions.

The current zoning for the subject property is R-7 Single- and Two-Family Urban Residential. The Richmond 300 Master Plan designates the future land use category for the subject property as Community Mixed Use. Primary Uses: Retail/office/personal service, multi-family residential, cultural, and open space. Secondary Uses: Single-family houses, institutional, and government. The density of the proposed development is approximately 34 units per acre.

Ordinance No. 2021-262 To authorize the special use of the property known as 116 South Laurel Street for the purpose of two twofamily detached dwellings, upon certain terms and conditions. The property is situated in an R-7 Single- and Two-Family Urban Residential District.

The Richmond 300 Master Plan designates the future land use category for the subject property as Neighborhood MixedUse. Primary Uses: Single-family homes, accessory dwelling units, duplexes, small multi-family buildings (typically 3-10 units) and open space. Secondary Uses: Large multi-family buildings (10+ units), r e t a i l / o ff i c e / p e r s o n a l service, institutional, cultural and government.

The density of the proposed development is approximately 11 units per acre.

Ordinance No. 2021-263 To authorize the special use of the property known as 518 West 26th Street for the purpose of a singlefamily dwelling and no more than one accessory dwelling unit, upon certain terms and conditions. The current zoning for the subject property is R-6 Single-Family Attached Residential. The City’s Richmond 300 Master Plan designates a future land use for the subject property as Residential.

Primary uses include single family houses, accessory dwelling units, and open space.

Secondary uses include Duplexes and small multi-family buildings (typically 3-10 units), institutional, and cultural.

Secondary uses may be found along major streets. The density of the proposed development is approximately 10 units per acre.

Ordinance No. 2021-264 To authorize the special use of the property known as 407 West Duval Street for the purpose of a multifamily dwelling containing up to three dwelling units, upon certain terms and conditions. The property is situated in an R-53 Multifamily Residential District. The Richmond 300 Master Plan designates the future land use category for the subject property as Neighborhood MixedUse. Primary Uses: Single-family homes, accessory dwelling units, duplexes, small multi-family buildings (typically 3-10 units) and open space. Secondary Uses: Large multi-family buildings (10+ units), retail/ office/personal service, institutional, cultural and government. The density of the proposed development is 63 units per acre.

Continued from previous column

Mixed Use. Such areas are described as “key gateways featuring prominent destinations, such as retail, sports venues, and large employers, as well as housing and open space. Located at the convergence of several modes of transportation, including Pulse BRT or other planned transit improvements.”

Primary Uses: Retail/ office/personal service, multi-family residential, cultural, and open space. Secondary Uses: Institutional and government. (p. 64) Ordinance No. 2021-267 To declare surplus and to direct the sale of a 0.176 acre portion of City-owned real estate located at 2400 Hermitage Road for $110,250.00 to Breeden Investment Properties, Inc., for the purpose of the construction of a mixed-use development including office and residential space.

Interested citizens who wish to speak will be given an opportunity to do so by following the instructions referenced in the October 11, 2021 Richmond City Council Formal meeting agenda. Copies of the full text of all ordinances are available by visiting the City Clerk’s page on the City’s Website at https:// www.rva.gov/office-cityclerk, and in the Office of the City Clerk, City Hall, 900 East Broad Street, Suite 200, Richmond, VA 23219, from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday.

Candice D. Reid City Clerk

Divorce VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER MARCIA WOLFE, Plaintiff v.

CANTINA WOLFE Defendant.

Case No.: CL21003112-00 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 8th day of November, 2021 at 9:00 AM, and protect her interests.

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

TIFFANY BARBER, Defendant.

Case No.: CL21002284-00 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 8th day of November, 2021 at 9:00 AM, and protect her 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

Ordinance No. 2021-254 To authorize the special use of the properties known as 2012 East Broad Street, 2018 East Broad Street and 304 North 21st Street for

Ordinance No. 2021-260 To authorize the special use of the property known 604 South Belmont Avenue for the purpose of up to 4 single-family detached dwellings, upon certain terms and conditions. The current zoning for this property is R-4 Single Family Residential. The City’s

Ordinance No. 2021-266 To amend the official zoning map for the purpose of rezoning the property known as 2400 Hermitage Road, in order to implement the adopted Richmond 300 Master Plan. The City’s Richmond 300 Master Plan designates the properties as Destination

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER CHARLES YEATMAN, Plaintiff v.

WHITNEY SINCLAIR, Defendant.

Case No.: CL21002217-00 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 8th day of November, 2021 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.

Continued on next column

Continued on next column

Continued on next column

Continued on next column

Ordinance No. 2021-253 To authorize the special use of the property known as 2901 Bainbridge Street for the purpose of office uses, a garage for fire apparatus, and a private noncommercial community center use, upon certain terms and conditions. The property is situated in an R-5 SingleFamily Residential District.

The Richmond 300 Master Plan designates the future land use category for the subject property as Residential.

Primary Uses: Singlefamily homes, accessory dwelling units and open space. Secondary Uses: Duplexes and small multifamily buildings (3-10 units), institutional and cultural uses.

Ordinance No. 2021-265 To provide for the vacation of a portion of a subdivision plat, pursuant to Va. Code § 15.2-2272(2), pertaining to a lot originally reserved for recreation, known as 3021 Falcon Road and described on the subdivision plat entitled “Staffordshire, Section - 5, Midlothian District, Chesterfield County, Virginia,” prepared by LaPrade Brothers, and dated August 5, 1966, as Lot 12-1, Staffordshire, Section 5, Block M.

Continued from previous column

8460 Mount Eagle Road Ashland, VA 23005 (804) 798-9667 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER CHRISTOPHER GREEN, Plaintiff v.

CHARITY GREEN, Defendant.

Case No.: CL21002299-00 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 8th day of November, 2021 at 9:00 AM, and protect her 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 SHAUN LANGHORNE, Plaintiff v.

DANIELLE SMITHERS, Defendant.

Case No.: CL21002096-00 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 4th day of November, 2021 at 9:00 AM, and protect her 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 COREY COLEMAN, SR., Plaintiff v.

DREAMA BAKER, Defendant.

Case No.: CL21001662-00 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 4th day of November, 2021 at 9:00 AM, and protect her 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 ANDREA BRAMMER, Plaintiff v.

JEFFREY BRAMMER, Defendant.

Case No.: CL21002983-00 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 28th day of October, 2021 at 9:00 AM, and protect his interests.

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

EUGENE QUARTERMAN, Defendant.

Case No.: CL21002722-00 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 Continued on next column

Continued from previous column

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 4th day of November, 2021 at 9:00 AM, and protect his 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 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER JUSTIN MARTIN, Plaintiff v.

JESSICA SCHOOLCRAFT, Defendant.

Case No.: CL21003047-00 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 4th day of November, 2021 at 9:00 AM, and protect her interests.

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

LISA A. JACKSON, Defendant.

Case No.: CL20-2378-4 AMENDED ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit includes, inter alia, the divorce of the parties. It appearing by affidavit that Lisa A. Jackson’s last known address is Picture Lake Camp Ground, 7818 Boydton Plank Road, Petersburg, Virginia 23803; it also appearing that Lisa A. Jackson is no longer residing at her last known address and her current whereabouts are unknown to the Plaintiff; that Plaintiff’s counsel attempted to locate Lisa A. Jackson’s current address via a public records software search, which did not yield results.

It is therefore ORDERED that LISA A. JACKSON appear before this Court on or before October 28, 2021 and protect her interests herein.

A Copy, Teste: EDWARD F. JEWETT, Clerk I ask for this: Erik D. Baines, Esquire (BSB # 83618) BARNES & DIEHL, P.C. Boulders VI - Suite A 7401 Beaufont Springs Drive Richmond, VA 23225 ebaines@barnesfamilylaw.com (804) 796-1000 (telephone) (804) 796-1730 (facsimile) Counsel for Plaintiff VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE CITY OF RICHMOND RICKETA V MCCRAY, Plaintiff v.

CLAUDE L BUCKHALTER, JR., Defendant.

Case No.: CL21-2163-4 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to obtain a no-fault divorce. It is ORDERED that the defendant, Claude L. Buckhalter, Jr., appear at the above-named court and protect his/her interests on or before October 25, 2021.

A Copy, Teste: EDWARD F. JEWETT, Clerk VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER OLIVIA G. HARRISON, Plaintiff v.

MARK O. HARRISON, JR., Defendant.

Case No.: CL21002736-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is for the petitioner to obtain a divorce from defendant.

It is ORDERED that the defendant, Mark O. Harrison, jr., whose last known address was 1119 Georgia Avenue, Glen Allen, Virginia 23060, and whose whereabouts are now unknown, appear here on or before the 12th day of October, 2021 at 9:00 a.m., to protect his interests.

A Copy, Teste: FRANK D. HARGROVE, JR., Clerk I ask for this: Susan Gerber, Counsel for Plaintiff 206 DeSota Drive Richmond, Virginia 23229 (804) 741-3438 Email: dagny44@aol.com VSB #30901 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER LEQUITA ROACH, Plaintiff Continued on next column

Continued from previous column

Continued from previous column

v.

JOHN ROACH, Defendant.

Case No.: CL21002810-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

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

It is ORDERED that the defendant, whose whereabouts are unknown, appear here on or before the 14th day of October, 2021 at 9:00 AM, and protect his interests.

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

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

THE SAMUEL D. DICKSON REVOCABLE TRUST, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL21-2641 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 2610 East Franklin Street, Tax Map Number E000-0439/020, Richmond, Virginia, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, The Samuel D. Dickson Revocable Trust.

An Affidavit having been filed that TRUSTEE, THE SAMUEL D. DICKSON REVOCABLE TRUST, is not a resident of the Commonwealth of Virginia, 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 TRUSTEE, THE SAMUEL D. DICKSON REVOCABLE T R U S T, a n d P a r t i e s Unknown, come forward to appear on or before NOVEMBER 18, 2021 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 804-646-7949

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER AMY PAGAN, Plaintiff v.

VITALI LOHVIN, Defendant.

Case No.: CL21002809-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

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

It is ORDERED that the defendant, whose whereabouts are unknown, appear here on or before the 14th day of October, 2021 at 9:00 AM, and protect his interests.

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

CHRISTOPHER HARRIS, Defendant.

Case No.: CL21002723-00 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 5th day of October, 2021 at 9:00 AM, and protect his interests.

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

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

MALEA, LLC, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL21-3628 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 4200 Richmond Highway, Tax Map Number S009-0221/006, Richmond, Virginia, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Malea, LLC.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, MALEA, LLC, an entity listed as inactive in the records of the Virginia State Corporation Commission, 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 MALEA, LLC, an entity listed as inactive in the records of the Virginia State Corporation Commission, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before NOVEMBER 18, 2021 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 804-646-7949 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.

LARRY INGE, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL21-3051 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 2400 Buford Avenue, Tax Map Number S009-0265/011, Richmond, Virginia, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Larry Inge and Cindy Inge.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owners, LARRY INGE and CINDY INGE, 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 LARRY INGE, CINDY INGE, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before NOVEMBER 18, 2021 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 804-646-7949 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND John Marshall Courts Building CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v.

NOE FLORES, et al.

Defendants.

Case No.: CL21-3626 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 823 China Street, Tax Map Number W0000165003, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Noe Flores and Jennifer Flores.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owners, Noe Flores and Jennifer Flores, per a deed filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 18-24912 on 6 December 2018, 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 Noe Flores and Jennifer Flores, per a deed filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 1824912 on 6 December 2018, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before NOVEMBER 18, 2021 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 page

Richmond Free Press

September 23-25, 2021 B5

Legal Notices Continued from previous page

Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7949 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v.

EDWARD BITTNER, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL21-3121 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 2520 Rear Belt Boulevard, Tax Map Number C009-0480/026, Richmond, Virginia, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Edward Bittner.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, EDWARD BITTNER, 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 EDWARD BITTNER, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before NOVEMBER 18, 2021 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 804-646-7949 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v.

ZOBIA MAHMOOD, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL21-3354 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 5214 Germain Road, Tax Map Number C008-0339/020 Richmond, Virginia, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Zobia Mahmood.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, ZOBIA MAHMOOD, 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 ZOBIA MAHMOOD, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before NOVEMBER 18, 2021 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 804-646-7949 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.: CL21-3611 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 4025 Crutchfield Street, Tax Map Number S000-2917/030, Richmond, Virginia, 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 NOVEMBER 18, 2021 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

Continued from previous column

900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7949 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v.

GREGORY MARIO MCKOY, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL21-2644 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 3422 Delaware Avenue, Tax Map Number N000-1265/003, Richmond, Virginia, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner/s of record, Gregory Mario McKoy, Shantell Taylor, Curtis Taylor, Illuminato Taylor, Taj Mitchell, Sadie Mitchell, Dominique Malone and Travell Teal.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owners, GREGORY MARIO MCKOY, 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 owners, SHANTELL TAYLOR, CURTIS TAYLOR, TAJ MITCHELL, SADIE MITCHELL, and DOMINIQUE MALONE, 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; that said owners, ILLUMINATO TAYLOR and TRAVELL TEAL have not been 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 GREGORY MARIO MCKOY, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, S H A N T E L L TAY L O R , CURTIS TAYLOR, TAJ MITCHELL, SADIE MITCHELL, DOMINIQUE MALONE, ILLUMINATO TAYLOR, TRAVELL TEAL, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before NOVEMBER 18, 2021 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 804-646-7949 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v.

ROSA EDITH FRANCO, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL21-3351 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 3325 McGuire Drive, Tax Map Number C009-0172/012, Richmond, Virginia, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, name Rosa Edith Franco and Merlos Elmer Dubon.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owners, ROSA EDITH FRANCO and MERLOS ELMER DUBON, 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 has/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 ROSA EDITH FRANCO, MERLOS ELMER DUBON, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before NOVEMBER 18, 2021 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 804-646-7949 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v.

KAY ANN STRONG, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL21-3356 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 3121 Falcon Road, Tax Map Number C001-1092/002, Richmond, Virginia, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the Continued on next column

Continued from previous column

Continued from previous column

Continued from previous column

Continued from previous column

Continued from previous column

Continued from previous column

name of the owner of record, Kay Ann Strong.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, KAY ANN STRONG, 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 KAY ANN STRONG, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before NOVEMBER 18, 2021 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 804-646-7949

Unknown, come forward to appear on or before NOVEMBER 18, 2021 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 804-646-7949

Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before NOVEMBER 18, 2021 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 804-646-7949

Properties.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, A & H Investment Properties, an entity listed as inactive in the records of the Virginia State Corporation Commission, per a deed filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 15-24523 on 28 December 2015 has not been 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 A & H Investment Properties, an entity listed as inactive in the records of the Virginia State Corporation Commission, per a deed filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 15-24523 on 28 December 2015, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before NOVEMBER 18, 2021 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 804-646-7949

S0071082013 City of Richmond v.

Richmond Renovations, Inc., et. al.

CL21-1119 5612 Heywood Road C0080372024 City of Richmond v. G. Michael Lyons, et. al.

CL20-5062 2610 Hopkins Road C0090528064 City of Richmond v.

Omicron Group, LLC, et. al.

CL20-2104 2807 Hopkins Road C0090583070 City of Richmond v. Naomi C. Wilson, et. al.

CL20-5061 3313 Hopkins Road C0090789008 City of Richmond v. Robert O. Gegugeit, et. al.

CL20-3579 2910 Hull Street S0001342003 City of Richmond v.

Archelle Johnson, et. al.

CL20-4841 2410 Ingram Avenue S0000865006 City of Richmond v.

Specialized Home Loans, et. al.

CL20-4358 911 Irby Drive C0050690002 City of Richmond v.

Monte’s Trust, et. al.

CL20-5060 2509 Kensington Avenue W0001126011 City of Richmond v.

Bradford Jay Kirby, et. al.

CL20-5361 500 East Ladies Mile Road N0001563015 City of Richmond v. Mary E. Wigfall, et. al.

CL21-838 718 Lincoln Avenue N0180427027 City of Richmond v. RVFM 8 LLC, et. al.

CL20-65 3410 Logandale Avenue S0071062002 City of Richmond v. Peggy Coley Carter, et. al.

CL21-756 2317 M Street E0000293004 City of Richmond v. William McKinley Perry, et. al.

CL20-2621 1608 Mechanicsville Turnpike E0120334004 City of Richmond v. Rosa Jordan, et. al.

CL20-4110 1600 Monteiro Street N0000290012 City of Richmond v. Thomas Jasper Johnson, et. al.

CL20-1933 108 North Morris Street W0000457011 City of Richmond v. MTC Futures, LLC, et. al.

CL20-5423 2401 Oakland Avenue S0071377018 City of Richmond v. Evans Lee Clark, et. al.

CL20-2662 2401-A Oakland Avenue S0071377025 City of Richmond v. Evans Lee Clark, et. al.

CL20-2662 2401-B Oakland Avenue S0071377024 City of Richmond v. Evans Lee Clark, et. al.

CL20-2662 2401-C Oakland Avenue S0071377023 City of Richmond v. Evans Lee Clark, et. al.

CL20-2662 8900 Old Holly Road C0010508038 City of Richmond v. Doris Ann Toy, et. al.

CL21-2137 8913 Old Holly Road C0010550016 City of Richmond v. Michele K. Jones, et. al.

CL20-5784 2640 Pompey Spring Road C0090526056 City of Richmond v. Robert E. Owens, et. al.

CL20-5848 314 Preston Street N0000088016 City of Richmond v. Shirley Harvey, et. al.

CL20-1628 318 Preston Street N0000088014 City of Richmond v. David Thorne, et. al.

CL20-1629 3601 ½ Richmond Highway S0080884052 City of Richmond v.

Shakuntala I. Patel, et. al.

CL20-499 3603 Richmond Highway S0080884051 City of Richmond v.

Shakuntala I. Patel, et. al.

CL20-499 3605 Richmond Highway S0080884050 City of Richmond v.

Shakuntala I. Patel, et. al.

CL20-499 3607 Richmond Highway S0080884048 City of Richmond v.

Shakuntala I. Patel, et. al.

CL20-499 2100 Richmond Street E0000764001 City of Richmond v. Daniel T. Bohannon, et. al.

CL19-4156 2002 Ridgemont Road S0071634009 City of Richmond v. Elvert S. Wood, et. al.

CL21-861 1609 Rogers Street E0001235005 City of Richmond v. Calvin H. Wright, et. al.

CL20-4355 2303 Rose Avenue N0000488009 City of Richmond v. Alice Fowler, et. al.

CL20-3309 4321 Saratoga Road C0010363016 City of Richmond v. D & T Land Trust, et. al.

CL21-2118 5015 Snead Road Rear C0080660064 City of Richmond v. John B. Coleman, Jr., et. al.

CL21-2937 1710 Spotsylvania Street E0120333009

City of Richmond v. James Henry Roots, III, et. al.

CL20-1651 3019 Terminal Avenue C0090593002 City of Richmond v. Inez Fleming, et, al.

CL21-2640 3220 Terminal Avenue C0090589018 City of Richmond v.

Tekeisha Smith, et, al.

CL21-1037 2300 Venable Street E0000425029 City of Richmond v. Venable Properties, LLC, et. al.

CL21-1016 2417 Whitcomb Street E0120224006 City of Richmond v. Samuel Atsu, et, al.

CL20-5337 TERMS OF SALE: All sales are subject to confirmation by the Richmond Circuit Court. The purchase price will include the winning bid plus 10% of the winning bid.

High bidders will pay at the time of the auction a deposit of at least 20% of the purchase price, or $5,000.00, whichever is greater. If the purchase price is under $5,000.00, high bidders will pay in full at the time of the auction. High bidders will pay the balance of the purchase price to the Special Commissioner, and deed recordation costs, by a date and in a form as stated in a settlement instruction letter. Time is of the essence.

If a high bidder defaults by not making these payments in full, on time, and in the required form, the Special Commissioner will retain the deposit, and may seek other remedies to include the cost of resale or any resulting deficiency. Settlement shall occur when the Richmond Circuit Court enters an Order of Confirmation. Conveyance shall be either by a special commissioner’s deed or a special warranty deed. Real estate taxes will be adjusted as of the date of entry for the Order of Confirmation.

Properties are sold “as is” without any representations or warranties, either expressed or implied, subject to the rights of any person in possession, and to all easements, liens, covenants, defects, encumbrances, adverse claims, conditions and restrictions, whether filed or inchoate, to include any information a survey or inspection of a property may disclose. It is assumed that bidders will make a visual exterior inspection of a property within the limits of the law, determine the suitability of a property for their purposes, and otherwise perform due diligence prior to the auction.

T h e S p e c i a l Commissioner’s acceptance of a bid shall not limit any powers vested in the City of Richmond. Additional terms may be announced at the time of sale. Individuals owing delinquent taxes to the City of Richmond, and defendants in pending delinquent tax cases, are not qualified to bid at this auction. Bidders must certify by affidavit that they do not own, directly or indirectly, any real estate with outstanding notices of violation for building, zoning or other local ordinances.

Questions may be directed to Gregory A. Lukanuski at greg.lukanuski@rva.gov or (804) 646-7949, or to Christie Hamlin at christie.hamlin@ rva.gov or (804) 646-6940.

Gregory A. Lukanuski Deputy City Attorney Special Commissioner 900 East Broad Street, Room 400 Richmond, Virginia 23219

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

TARIQA WATERS, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL21-2663 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 3008 Hanes Avenue, Tax Map Number N000-0972/007, Richmond, Virginia, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Tariqa Waters, Tiffany Coleman and Reginal L. Coleman, III.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, TARIQA WATERS, who is not a resident of the Commonwealth of Virginia, has not been located and has not filed a response to this action; that said owner, TIFFANY COLEMAN, has not been located and has not filed a response to this action; that said owner, REGINAL L. COLEMAN, III, 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; that BENJAMIN J. DRUMMOND, Registered Agent for DRUMMOND CONSTRUCTION, INC, which may be a creditor with an interest in said property, 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 TARIQA WATERS, TIFFANY COLEMAN, REGINAL L. COLEMAN, III, BENJAMIN J. DRUMMOND, Registered Agent for DRUMMOND CONSTRUCTION, INC, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before NOVEMBER 18, 2021 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 804-646-7949 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v.

TABATHA OSBORNE, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL21-3053 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 2600 Harold Avenue, Tax Map Number N000-0711/014, Richmond, Virginia, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Tabatha Osborne, Lisa J. Osborne and Russell E. Osborne.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owners, TABATHA OSBORNE, LISA J. OSBORNE, and RUSSELL E. OSBORNE, 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 TABATHA OSBORNE, LISA J. OSBORNE, RUSSELL E. OSBORNE, and Parties Continued on next column

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

LARRY W. INGE, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL21-3078 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 2403 Coles Street, Tax Map Number S009-0065/023, Richmond, Virginia, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner/s of record, Larry W. Inge.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, LARRY W. INGE, 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 LARRY W. INGE, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before NOVEMBER 18, 2021 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 804-646-7949 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v.

AQUALAND 3, LLC, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL21-3627 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 2210 Edwards Avenue, Tax Map Number S000-0459/005, Richmond, Virginia, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Aqualand 3, LLC.

An Affidavit having been filed that RICK WAYBRIGHT, Registered Agent for AQUALAND 3, LLC, 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 RICK WAYBRIGHT, Registered Agent for AQUALAND 3, LLC, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before NOVEMBER 18, 2021 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 804-646-7949 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v.

CHARLENE BOND, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL21-2691 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 1907 Redwood Avenue, Tax Map Number E012-0250/015, Richmond, Virginia, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Charlene Bond.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, CHARLENE BOND, is not a resident of the Commonwealth of Virginia, 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 CHARLENE BOND, and Continued on next column

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

EQUITY TRUST COMPANY, CUSTODIAN, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL21-3352 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 1338 Drewry Street, Tax Map Number S007-1134/017, Richmond, Virginia, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Equity Trust Company, an entity not appearing in the records of the Virginia State Corporation Commission, Custodian FBO Ronald Foster IRA.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, EQUITY T R U S T C O M PA N Y, a n entity not appearing in the records of the Virginia State Corporation Commission, CUSTODIAN FBO Ronald Foster IRA, 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 EQUITY TRUST COMPANY, an entity not appearing in the records of the Virginia State Corporation Commission, CUSTODIAN FBO Ronald Foster IRA, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before NOVEMBER 18, 2021 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 804-646-7949 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v.

JOSHUA NATHANIAN PATTERSON, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL21-3357 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 1112 Irby Drive, Tax Map Number C005-0585/031, Richmond, Virginia, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, name Joshua Nathanian Patterson.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, JOSHUA NATHANIAN PATTERSON, who has/have been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to his last known address, has not been personally located and has/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 S H U A N AT H A N I A N PATTERSON, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before NOVEMBER 18, 2021 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 804-646-7949 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v.

A & H INVESTMENT PROPERTIES SERVE: Address Unknown and PARTIES UNKNOWN any heirs, devisees or successors in title, collectively made Respondents Defendants.

Case No.: CL21- 3667 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 1307 Enfield Avenue, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number S0071177017, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, A & H Investment Continued on next column

NOTICE OF PUBLIC AUCTION SPECIAL COMMISSIONER’S SALE OF REAL ESTATE RICHMOND, VIRGINIA Pursuant to the terms of Orders of Sale entered in the Richmond Circuit Court, the undersigned Special Commissioner will offer the following real estate for sale at public auction at Motleys Asset Disposition Group, 3600 Deepwater Terminal Road, Richmond, Virginia on Wednesday, October 6, 2021 at 2:00 pm, or as soon thereafter as may be effected. The sale is subject to the terms and conditions below and any other terms and conditions which may be announced on the day of auction. Announcements made on the day of the auction take precedence over any prior written or verbal terms of sale.

3101 1st Avenue N0000990014 City of Richmond v.

Dorothy R. Snydor, et. al.

CL20-3962 3306 2nd Avenue N0001071009 City of Richmond v. Peter L. Meredith, et. al.

CL20-1624 3024 3rd Avenue N0000920003 City of Richmond v. 1417 Investment, LLC, et. al.

CL21-2120 2606 4th Avenue N0000717004 City of Richmond v. James Pointer, Jr., et. al.

CL21-2119 2409 Alexander Avenue S0080815054 City of Richmond v.

Dorothy M. Woolford, et. al.

CL20-2665 2306 Burton Street E0000427024 City of Richmond v.

Haywood Williams., et. al.

CL21-1573 3014 Bradwill Road C0040695014 City of Richmond v. Annie Rebecca Green, et. al.

CL20-6044 2327 Carrington Street E0000470014 City of Richmond v. Harry E. Jones, Sr., et. al.

CL20-5066 3212 Cliff Avenue N0001140023 City of Richmond v. Richard E. Souels, et. al.

CL18-962 1604 Columbia Street S0071377003 City of Richmond v. Stella Clark, et. al.

CL20-3075 2832 Dunn Avenue N0000906012 City of Richmond v. Eugene Lee, et.al.

CL21-2394 8909 Elm Road C0010508010 City of Richmond v. Doris Ann Toy, et. al.

CL21-2136 1801 Fairfax Avenue S0000456012 City of Richmond v. Orion Development Group, LLC, et.al.

CL21-950 6922 Forest Hill Avenue C0040662028 City of Richmond v. Randy K. Davis, et. al.

CL20-2120 8001 Forest Hill Avenue C0030240001 City of Richmond v. J. Everett Johnson, et. al.

CL20-239 8011 Forest Hill Avenue C0030240002 City of Richmond v. J. Everett Johnson, et. al.

CL20-240 8021 Forest Hill Avenue C0030240003 City of Richmond v. J. Everett Johnson, et. al.

CL20-241 3700 Greenbay Road C0090557040 City of Richmond v. Robert E. Owens, et. al.

CL20-4886 1712 Greenville Avenue W0000785016 City of Richmond v. Lillie Virginia Green, et. al.

CL20-3002 2918 Hanes Avenue N0000887002 City of Richmond v.

Matthew S. Johnson, et. al.

CL20-66 1823 Harwood Street Continued on next column

Continued on next column

BIDS REQUEST FOR BIDS For Easement, Franchise, Privilege, Lease or Right Over, Under, Through, Upon and Across 6255 Old Warwick Road In the City of Richmond The City of Richmond is seeking bids for a nonexclusive easement over, under, through, upon, and across certain portions of the property located at 6255 Old Warwick Road for the laying, construction, operation, and maintenance of one or more lines of underground conduits and cables and all equipment, accessories, and appurtenances necessary in connection therewith to provide electrical service to the City’s Southside Community Center located at 6255 Old Warwick Road in accordance with a certain Right of Way Agreement, for a duration of 40 years, subject to certain responsibilities to be imposed by the Right of Way Agreement and subject further to all retained rights of the City of Richmond.

All bids for the easement hereby offered to be granted must be submitted in writing to the City Clerk’s office by 10:00 a.m. on Monday, September 27, 2021. Bids will be presented to the presiding officer of the Council of the City of Richmond on Monday, September 27, 2021, at 6:00 p.m. in open session and then will be presented by the presiding officer to the Council and be dealt with and acted upon in the mode prescribed by law.

The City of Richmond expressly reserves the right to reject any and all bids.

The successful bidder shall reimburse the City for all costs incurred in connection with the advertisement of this ordinance in accordance with section 15.2-2101 of the Continued on next page

Richmond Free Press

B6 September 23-25, 2021

Sports Plus Stories by Fred Jeter

Flying Squirrels wrap up season Washington’s Fuller is last of 4 brothers with big crowds and a to make it to the NFL record number of homers The Richmond Flying Squirrels 2021 season may be best remembered for home crowds and home runs.

Following a season of inactivity due to COVID19 in 2020, Squirrels fans proved they hadn’t forgotten their way to The Diamond at 3001 N. Arthur Ashe Blvd.

A total of 275,169 spectators came through the turnstiles for 57 dates. The 4,828 per-game average was second only to the Hartford Yard Goats of ConDavid necticut among AA Northeast League affiliates.

The average attendance would have been significantly higher if not for COVID-related restrictions during the first two home series in the spring.

Folks in the crowd were treated to a team record 127 homers (home and away included), with third baseman David Villar pacing the slugfest with a franchise record 20.

The previous individual mark of 18 was shared by Jarrett Parker in 2013 and Mario Lisson in 2014. The previous team record of 109 was set in 2013.

Villar was named Most Valuable Player, while reliever

Ronnie Williams won the vote for Most Valuable Pitcher.

Williams also received the Community Service Award for attending all the Squirrels’ youth instructional camps. Williams was called up to AAA Sacramento late in the season.

Down the stretch, the team’s most effective starting pitcher was Akeel Morris, who fanned 10 over five innings in the Flying Squirrels’ season finale 3-1 victory at Erie, Pa., against the SeaWolves.

Villar That enabled the Flying Squirrels to finish 57-56, the first time above .500 since 2015.

Morris, the right-handed native of the Virgin Islands, was brilliant in his last seven starts, all Squirrels victories. During that run, he struck out 48 batters in 40.2 innings while allowing only six earned runs and 27 hits.

The Squirrels will continue to be the San Francisco Giants’ AA farm club for the foreseeable future.

Richmond will open the 2022 season April 8 at Bowie, Md., and commence the home campaign April 12 against Altoona, Pa.

Roundball legends Neblett and Dark host bookbag giveaway in Danville A couple of Richmond roundball legends, Ray Neblett and Jesse “Bodine” Dark, are teaming up to serve Danville area youths.

The Ray Neblett Inner City Basketball Camp is set for 3 to 6 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 25, at the Danville YMCA. Dark is serving as a co-director.

In addition to some basketball instruction, bookbags filled with school supplies and other goodies will be given free of charge to the youngsters. The bookbags and supplies have been donated by Richmond Inner-City Basketball.

Neblett was a basketball standout at JeffersonHuguenot-Wythe and Virginia Union University. Dark starred at Maggie L. Walker High School and Virginia Commonwealth University and played in the NBA with the New York Knicks.

Dark was the Danville “Y” Volunteer of the Year for 2020.

The event is being held in memory of Brenda Dark, Jesse’s wife, who died two years ago.

Details: (804) 283-3759.

Kendall Fuller, the fourth of four brothers to reach the NFL, is making the most so far of his second stint with the Washington Football Team.

The 26-year-old cornerback led the team in tackles in its 30-29 win over the New York Giants on Sept.

16, and will be relied on Sunday, Sept. 26, when Washington travels to Buffalo, N.Y., for a 1 p.m. kickoff against the Bills.

Fuller had eight tackles (seven solo) against the Giants, including a sack.

He added one pass deflection and another hit on the quarterback as WashingKendall ton improved to 1-1.

This is Fuller’s second stint at FedEx Field.

He was a third round draft choice in 2016 out of Virginia Tech and showed much promise with D.C. Then in 2019, he was traded to the Kansas City Chiefs for Chiefs quarterback Alex Smith. That trade went wrong for Washington when Smith suffered a major leg injury.

The highlight of Fuller’s tenure in Kansas City was making a gameclinching interception in the Chiefs’ Super Bowl victory in February 2020 over the San Francisco 49ers.

Fuller came back to Washington March 23, 2020, as a free agent, signing a four-year contract for $40 million.

A year ago, Fuller helped Washington to the NFC Eastern Division title and was a key to the defense that ranked second in NFL in yards allowed.

From Baltimore, Fuller is the fourth of Nina Dorsey-Fuller’s and Vincent Fuller’s extremely athletic sons. All starred at Virginia Tech before being drafted into the NFL. The other NFL Fullers: Vincent II: Safety; played with Tennessee Titans 2005 to 2010, and with Detroit Lions and New England

Patriots in 2011.

Corey: Wide receiver; played with Detroit Lions 2013 to 2016 and New Orleans Saints 2016-17.

Kyle: Cornerback; played with Chicago Bears 2014 to 2020; currently with Denver Broncos.

The Fullers are only the second family to send four brothers to the NFL. The first was the Browners, Jim, Joey, Keith and Ross. u NFL brother combinations aren’t as rare as one might think. Just from state and local connections, consider: Fuller • Ronde and Tiki Barber: Ronde (cornerback) played at Cave Spring High, University of Virginia and in the NFL 1997 to 2012. Tiki (running back) played at Cave Spring High, U.Va. and in the NFL 1997 to 2006.

• Darren and Jamie Sharper: Darren (safety) played at Hermitage High School, the College of William & Mary and in the NFL from 1997 to 2010. Jamie (linebacker) played at Hermitage, University of Virginia and in the NFL 1997 to 2005.

• Michael and Marcus Vick: Michael (quarterback) played at Warwick High in Newport News, at Virginia Tech and in the NFL 2001 to 2015. Marcus (quarterback, receiver) played at Warwick High, Virginia Tech and in the NFL in 2006.

• Tremaine, Trey and Terrell Edmunds: Tremaine (linebacker) went from Dan River High to Virginia Tech to the NFL’s Buffalo Bills in 2018. He remains active with the Bills. Trey (running back) went from Dan River High to the University of Maryland to NFL stints with New Orleans and Pittsburgh (still active).

Terrell (safety) went from Dan River High to Virginia Tech to the NFL’s Pittsburgh Steelers in 2018 where he remains active.

Legal Notices/Employment Opportunities Continued from previous column

Code of Virginia and shall post the bond required by the ordinance.

CREATIVE GENERALIST

A copy of the full text of the ordinance is on file in the City Clerk’s Office, and the full text of the ordinance and Right of Way Agreement to be executed is available at:

SUBCONTRACTOR OUTREACH & PROJECT INFORMATION SESSION MULTIPLE PROJECTS Owner: Virginia State University ŽŶƐƚƌƵĐƟŽŶ DĂŶĂŐĞƌ͗ ^ŬĂŶƐŬĂ h^ ƵŝůĚŝŶŐ ŶƟĐŝƉĂƚĞĚ ŝĚ ĂƚĞ͗ >ĂƚĞ ϯƌĚ YƵĂƌƚĞƌ ϮϬϮϭ

https://richmondva.legistar. com/LegislationDetail.aspx?

ID=5136696&GUID=3F8070 08-7ACA-48A4-98E0-2447B 832D728&Options=ID|Text|& Search=2021-241

KǁŶĞƌ͗ ĞƉĂƌƚŵĞŶƚ ŽĨ &ŽƌĞŶƐŝĐ ^ĐŝĞŶĐĞ ; &^Ϳ ĂŶĚ KĸĐĞ ŽĨ ƚŚĞ ŚŝĞĨ DĞĚŝĐĂů džĂŵŝŶĞƌ ;K D Ϳ ŽŶƐƚƌƵĐƟŽŶ DĂŶĂŐĞƌ͗ ^ŬĂŶƐŬĂ h^ ƵŝůĚŝŶŐ ŶƟĐŝƉĂƚĞĚ ŝĚ ĂƚĞ͗ ϰƚŚ YƵĂƌƚĞƌ ϮϬϮϭ

Please address any questions or bids to:

KǁŶĞƌ͗ ŽŶ ^ĞĐŽƵƌƐ ^ƚ͘ &ƌĂŶĐŝƐ DĞĚŝĐĂů ĞŶƚĞƌ ŽŶƐƚƌƵĐƟŽŶ DĂŶĂŐĞƌ͗ ^ŬĂŶƐŬĂ h^ ƵŝůĚŝŶŐ ŶƟĐŝƉĂƚĞĚ ŝĚ ĂƚĞ͗ EŽǀĞŵďĞƌͬ ĞĐĞŵďĞƌ ϮϬϮϭ

Candice D. Reid, City Clerk City of Richmond 900 East Broad Street, Suite 200 Richmond, Virginia 23219 (804) 646-7955

^ŬĂŶƐŬĂ h^ ƵŝůĚŝŶŐ ǁŝůů ĐŽŶĚƵĐƚ ƚŚĞ ĮƌƐƚ ƐƵďĐŽŶƚƌĂĐƚŽƌ ŵĞĞƟŶŐ ƚŽ ƌĞĐƌƵŝƚ͕ ƐŽůŝĐŝƚ͕ ĂŶĚ ŝŶĨŽƌŵ ŝŶƚĞƌĞƐƚĞĚ ƐƵďĐŽŶƚƌĂĐƚŽƌƐ͕ ǀĞŶĚŽƌƐ͕ ĂŶĚ ƐƵƉƉůŝĞƌƐ ĨŽƌ ŽƉƉŽƌƚƵŶŝƟĞƐ ĂǀĂŝůĂďůĞ ƚŚƌŽƵŐŚŽƵƚ ƚŚĞ ŽŵŵŽŶǁĞĂůƚŚ ŽŶ tĞĚŶĞƐĚĂLJ͕ ^ĞƉƚĞŵďĞƌ Ϯϵ͕ ϮϬϮϭ ĨƌŽŵ ϭϭ͗ϬϬĂŵ ʹ ϭ͗ϬϬƉŵ͘ dŚĞ ŵĞĞƟŶŐ ǁŝůů ďĞ ŚĞůĚ ŝŶ ƉĞƌƐŽŶ E ǀŝƌƚƵĂůůLJ͘ >hE , t/>> WZKs/ ĨŽƌ ŝŶͲƉĞƌƐŽŶ ĂƩĞŶĚĞĞƐ

BID

dŽ ƌĞŐŝƐƚĞƌ ĨŽƌ ƚŚĞ ŽƵƚƌĞĂĐŚ ƐĞƐƐŝŽŶ ƉůĞĂƐĞ ĞŵĂŝů ũŽŚŶŶLJ͘ŽƌƟnjΛƐŬĂŶƐŬĂ͘ĐŽŵ ĂŶĚ ŝŶĐůƵĚĞ ͞sŝƌŐŝŶŝĂ WƌŽũĞĐƚƐ /ŶĨŽ ^ĞƐƐŝŽŶ͟ ŝŶ ƚŚĞ ƐƵďũĞĐƚ ůŝŶĞ Žƌ ƌĞŐŝƐƚĞƌ Ăƚ ƚŚĞ ĨŽůůŽǁŝŶŐ ǁĞďƐŝƚĞƐ͗ In-Person: ǁǁǁ͘ƐŬĂŶƐŬĂƐƵďŵƵůƟƉƌŽũĞǀĞŶƚ͘ĞǀĞŶƚďƌŝƚĞ͘ĐŽŵ Virtual: ǁǁǁ͘ƐŬĂŶƐŬĂ͘ǁĞďĞdž͘ĐŽŵͬƐŬĂŶƐŬĂͬŽŶƐƚĂŐĞͬŐ͘ƉŚƉ͍Dd/ сĞϴĚĚϲϭϯϲĐĂϴϲ ϳīϭϮϳϴϮϰϴĐϳďϬϬĚϮĞĚϬĂ

COUNTY OF HENRICO, VIRGINIA Construction Bid ITB#21-2221-9JOK Laburnum Avenue Sidewalk Improvements Due: October 20, 2021 at 2:00 P.M. For additional information visit: https://henrico.us/ finance/divisions/purchasing/ solicitations/ COUNTY OF HENRICO, VIRGINIA Construction Bid ITB#21-2213-8EAR Maintenance & construction services – Filter Basin #4 Due: October 13, 2021 at 3:00 P.M. For additional information visit: https://henrico.us/ finance/divisions/purchasing/ solicitations/

LICENSE Crafty Crab Eastgate Inc. Trading as: Crafty Crab 4995 Nine Mile Road Richmond, Virginia 23223 The above establishment is applying to the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage C o n trol (ABC) AUTHORITY for a Beverage on premises license to sell or manufacture alcoholic beverages.

Jian Feng Pan, Owner NOTE: Objections to the issuance of this license must be submitted to ABC no later than 30 days from the publishing date of the first of two required newspaper legal notices. Objections should be registered at www. abc.virginia.gov or 800-5523200.

Richmond, VA

NOTICE TO ALL CONTRACTORS, VENDORS, & SUPPLIERS

ŽŶƚƌĂĐƚŽƌƐ͕ ^ƵƉƉůŝĞƌƐ͕ ĂŶĚ ^ĞƌǀŝĐĞ WƌŽǀŝĚĞƌƐ ǁŝůů ďĞ ĂďůĞ ƚŽ͗ ͻ ZĞǀŝĞǁ WƌŽũĞĐƚ /ŶĨŽƌŵĂƟŽŶ ĂŶĚ ŝĚ WĂĐŬĂŐĞƐ ͻ >ĞĂƌŶ ĂďŽƵƚ ĐƵƌƌĞŶƚ ďŝĚĚŝŶŐ ĂŶĚ ĐŽŶƐƚƌƵĐƟŽŶ ƐĐŚĞĚƵůĞƐ ͻ ZĞĐĞŝǀĞ ŝŶƐƚƌƵĐƟŽŶƐ ĨŽƌ ŶĂǀŝŐĂƟŶŐ ƚŚĞ ƉƌĞƋƵĂůŝĮĐĂƟŽŶ ƉƌŽĐĞƐƐ ͻ ^ƉĞĂŬ ƚŽ ĂŶĚ ŶĞƚǁŽƌŬ ǁŝƚŚ ƚŚĞ ^ŬĂŶƐŬĂ h^ ƵŝůĚŝŶŐ ƉƌŽũĞĐƚ ƚĞĂŵƐ

DEPUTY COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR FOR COMMUNITY OPERATIONS Chesterfield County, Virginia (Richmond-Metro Area), a recognized leader and award-winning local government, is seeking a dynamic, innovative and experienced individual who will oversee the Community Operations Division, which includes the following departments: General Services, Information Systems Technology, Library Services, Parks and Recreation, and Risk Management. Additionally, the position will serve as the County Administrator’s appointed liaison to Emergency Communications, Fire and EMS, and Police and will also coordinate the working relationship between the county and the three constitutional officers (Circuit Court Clerk, Commonwealth’s Attorney and the Sheriff). The Community Operations division employs approximately 700 staff members and its departments provide services for the entire county government to include the school system. The Deputy County Administrator serves on the executive leadership team and reports to the County Administrator.

To review the recruitment profile and application instructions, visit the link Deputy County Administrator for Community Operations or visit https:// www.governmentjobs.com/careers/chesterfieldco and review the Special Recruitment header. The deadline to apply is October 18, 2021 at 5 p.m.

An Equal Opportunity Employer Committed to Workforce Diversity

Thank you for your interest in applying for opportunities with The City of Richmond.

To see what opportunities are available, please refer to our website at www.richmondgov.com.

EOE M/F/D/V

Software Engineering Associate – Capital One Services, LLC in Richmond, VA; Mult pos avail: Assist Z WHFK GHVLJQ GYOSPQW PRGL¿FDWLRQ & implementation of comp apps using existing & emerging tech platforms.

To apply, visit https://capitalone.wd1. myworkdayjobs.com/Capital_One and search “Software Engineering Associate” or “R121798”.

APEX SY�EMS, LLC SEEKS ONE SENIOR DATA ENGINEER: Resp. for maintaining the Investments Personal Investing (PI) Fee & Billing squad. Implementing the Suntek Xelerate Fee & Billing engine using Spotify Agile/Scrum model.

Implement data interfaces into & out of the Suntek Xelerate Fee & Billing engine running on the Oracle database using the Suntek remediation layer / UI, Unix shell scripts, Control-M, and PUSQL. Work w/ Suntek engineers to tune the Xelerate Fee & Billing engine in the context of IBM Websphere Application Server I Oracle database environment. Review issues assigned by the QA/Automation engineer or other team members in Jira, & work to resolve them. Participate in building & tuning of business reports using Tableau as needed. Reqs: Bachelor’s degree in CompSci, Elec. Eng., Soft.

Eng., or related IT field, or foreign equiv.; 5 yrs exp. designing & developing software; & 2 yrs concurrent exp. using Oracle, ETL, Python, Control-M Automation, and Shell Script.

Company headquartered in Glen Allen, VA; however, position may be assigned to various unanticipated locations throughout the U.S. Only applicants sending cover letter, CV, salary requirements & references to Derek G. Schnitzer, Staff Counsel at dschnitzer@apexsystems.com will be considered.

The Virginia Tourism Corporation (VTC) is seeking a Creative Generalist to join its Brand department in the VTC’s Marketing Division.

The Creative Generalist will report to the Sr. Creative Director and support the Brand team.

This position will work in a collaborative team environment to create and design artwork to support marketing programs at VTC. All candidates must apply through our website https://www.vatc.org/administration/employment/.

Application deadline: September 30, 2021.

VEDP is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, sex, color, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, veteran status, « Ì V> >vw >Ì ] }i iÌ VÃ] À >}> ÃÌ Ì iÀÜ Ãi µÕ> wi` ` Û `Õ> Ã Ü Ì ` Ã>L Ì ið Ì Ã 6 *½Ã intent that its employment and personnel policies and practices conform to all applicable federal, state and local laws and regulations Ài}>À` } ` ÃVÀ >Ì > ` >vwÀ >Ì Ûi action. Applicants requiring more information or requiring assistance may contact VEDP Human Resources at 1-804-545-5634 or vedphr@VEDP. org. TDD 1-800-828-1120.

Freelance Writers: Richmond Free Press has immediate opportunities for freelance writers. Newspaper experience is a requirement. To be considered, please send 5 samples of your writing, along with a cover letter to news@ richmond freepress.com or mail to: Richmond Free Press, P. O. Box 27709, Richmond, VA 23261. No phone calls.

Director of Finance County of Henrico, Virginia

IRC153508. Provides administrative oversight of the County’s centralized financial operations, resources, services, programs and policies; under the county manager form of government the director is responsible for the fiscally sound administration of the Department of Finance’s operational divisions (accounting, budget, purchasing, real estate assessment, revenue, risk management and treasury) and exercises the powers conferred and performs the duties imposed by law on commissioners of revenue and treasurers; monitors economic trends, state and federal legislation with impact to the fiscal conduct of local government and the County’s financial position and prepares recommendations for approval in response to enacted changes; and does related work as required. For a more specific description of duties and qualifications and to apply, visit our iRecruitment site on the Internet at https://henrico.us/services/jobs. Deadline 10/11/2021. EOE.

To advertise in the

Richmond Free Press call

644-0496