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Former Minneapolis police officer faces decades in prison after a jury convicts him of three counts in the heinous killing of George Floyd; tears of joy and relief flood the nation Free Press wire report

Area leaders react to Chauvin verdict Henry L. Marsh III, longtime civil rights attorney and former Richmond mayor and state senator: “The unanimous verdict of guilty on all counts … provides hope that the long history of a ‘reign of terMr. Marsh ror’ perpetrated against Black citizens will come to an end. America’s and Virginia’s record of police brutality in law enforcement is shameful.

“The story of George Floyd’s death and trial reveals the nation’s long history of public lynching in the United States and Virginia. The recent effort to overcome the coronavirus also reveals an American system that is broken, with Black Americans facing an income, education, health care and life expectancy gap.

“The question confronting Americans, Virginians, as well as each individual is whether we can close these racial gaps between Black and white citizens. We will discover the answer to this question in the years to come.”

Mr. Floyd George Floyd’s brother, Philonise Floyd, wipes his eyes during a news conference after the verdict was read Tuesday in Minneapolis in which former police officer Derek Chauvin was convicted of the murder of George Floyd.

Below, Andre Tolleris waves a flag and yells in jubilation to passing motorists Tuesday at Monument and Allen avenues. Many of the drivers and passengers honked their horns in celebration.

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David P. Baugh, a criminal lawyer and former federal prosecutor with a 40-year history of civil rights accomplishments: “America, and particularly the Commonwealth of VirMr. Baugh ginia, must view this conviction not as an accomplishment, but a stepping stone, the first hurdle of a long and overdue race.

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MINNEAPOLIS Black Americans and others from Missouri to Florida to Minnesota cheered, marched, hugged, waved signs and sang jubilantly in the streets Tuesday after a Minneapolis jury found former police officer Derek Chauvin guilty of murder in the death of George Floyd.

After three weeks of testimony, the trial of Mr. Chauvin ended swiftly: Barely over a day of jury deliberations, then just minutes for the verdicts to be read — guilty, guilty and guilty — and Mr. Chauvin was handcuffed and taken away to prison.

“Today, we are able to breathe again,” Mr. Floyd’s younger brother, Philonise Floyd, said at a joyous family news conference where tears streamed down his face as he likened Mr. Floyd’s death to that of 1955 Mississippi lynchRelated story on B3 ing victim Emmett Till, except that this time there were cameras around to show the world what happened.

Mr. Chauvin, 45, could be sent to prison for decades when he is sentenced in about two months in a case that triggered worldwide protests, violence and a furious re-examination of racism and policing in the United States.

The verdict set off jubilation mixed with sorrow across the city and around the nation.

Hundreds of people poured into the streets of Minneapolis, some running through traffic with banners. Drivers blared their horns in celebration.

In Richmond, drivers honked their horns in jubilation around the Monument Avenue statue of Confederate Robert E. Lee, where a man shouting, “Justice!” waved a multicolor banner at passing motorists in support of the verdict.

The jury of six white and six Black or multiracial people came back with its verdict Tuesday afternoon after about 10 hours of deliberations over two days. The now-fired white officer was found guilty of second degree unintentional murder, third degree murder and second degree manslaughter in the May 25 death of Mr. Floyd, who was put face down in the street with his hands cuffed behind his back and was pinned to the pavement with Mr. Chauvin’s knee on his neck for more than 9 minutes.

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Casino contenders now down to 2; Bally’s out

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

Just two contenders are left in the competition to build a casino-resort in Richmond, and one already has corralled the support of a majority of City Council.

A third contender, Bally’s, was dropped from the competition Wednesday. City Hall’s internal evaluation committee announced that, for a variety of reasons, the Rhode Island company’s bid no longer was being considered.

The two proposals left are from Urban One of Silver Spring, Md., which is seeking

to open its first casino, and The Cordish Cos. of Baltimore, which wants to expand its Live! brand operation to Richmond.

The departure of Bally’s, however, appears to be another boost for Black-owned Urban One, whose proposed South Side location already has won the most public support.

The company is proposing to develop its ONE Casino+ Resort and recording operation on 100 acres on Walmsley Boulevard near the Philip Morris cigarette factory.

A Free Press informal poll of City Council members indicates that at least six

Early voting begins April 23 VOTE for Democratic primary Free Press staff report

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Who are these girls?

Eva Carter, 5, left, and her 3-year-old sister, Gabby Carter, are in Downtown by the Greater Richmond Convention Center. See what brought them to Richmond and what the resolution is that Eva is holding on B2.

Early voting for the June 8 Democratic primary will get underway this Friday, April 23 – 45 days ahead of primary day.

Richmond plans to operate three locations for those who want to cast their ballots early and in person in the contests to determine the Democratic nominees who will compete in the November election for statewide and local offices.

Participating city voters will be decid-

ing on the Democratic standard bearers for governor, lieutenant governor and attorney general and for two seats in the House of Delegates. There also are city primary contests for sheriff and commonwealth’s attorney.

The city Voter Registrar’s Office has announced that people will be able to vote 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday at the main office, 2134 W. LaPlease turn to A4

members support Urban One’s bid, which includes an offer to provide the city with an upfront payment of $60 million and an additional share of taxable revenue from gaming if the company is selected.

Cordish wants to install its Live! Casino and Hotel on the Bow Tie Cinema property at Leigh Street and Arthur Ashe Boulevard in North Side. Second District Councilwoman Katherine Jordan, who represents the area, has announced her opposition.

Cordish has offered an additional share of gaming revenue to the city, but has said only that it would provide up to $200 million over 15 years in donations to benefit the community. It has not publicly Please turn to A4

Free COVID-19 testing Free community testing for COVID19 continues.

The Richmond and Henrico County health districts are offering testing at the following locations: • Thursday, April 22, 2 to 4 p.m., Eastern Henrico Health Department, 1400 N. Laburnum Ave., Eastern Henrico. Drive-thru testing.

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Rift grows between School Board and City Council over Wythe replacement

By Jeremy M. Lazarus and Ronald E. Carrington

A Richmond city councilwoman is calling on the School Board to halt its effort to retake control of school construction and to come to the table with city officials “to create a process that everyone can support.”

Fifth District Councilwoman Stephanie A. Lynch issued the call Wednesday in a bid to end the growing rift between City Hall and the School Board over development of a replacement for aging and decaying George Wythe High School, which the city had hoped to build and open by the fall of 2024.

However, Ms. Lynch, who chairs the council’s Education and Human Services Committee, said that if the School Board does not accept the olive branch and rescind its action, she said

she would recommend that Mayor Levar M. Stoney and his staff ignore the board and move ahead with issuing requests for proposals, or RFPs, for school buildings that the city has been preparing, given the city’s control of the purse strings.

The contention began April 12 when a divided School Board voted 5-4, without any public notice, to retake control of school Ms. Lynch construction. The board had ceded school construction to the city in the development of the seven newest buildings that have gone up since 2012.

The board’s action has drawn fire from civic groups and community activists.

But just hours after Mayor Stoney spoke at a news conference Monday urging the School Board to back off, the board doubled down.

The same five-member majority directed Superintendent Jason Kamras to begin the process of hiring a three-member construction management team and also directed him to develop and issue RFPs for George Wythe and a modern career and technical Mr. Stuckey center this year.

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Va. minimum wage goes to $9.50 on May 1

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

Saturday, May 1, will usher in a major jump in pay for tens of thousands of hourly workers across Virginia.

For the first time in 12 years, the minimum wage will officially increase from $7.25 an hour to $9.50 an hour.

The increase is one of the many changes that the Democratic majorities in the General Assembly have ushered in. The increase in the minimum wage passed in the 2020 legislative session, and Gov. Ralph S. Northam signed it into law. But the governor and legislature agreed to delay implementation due to the impact of the pandemic on small business operations.

For people working 40 hours a week, the new wage will boost their income before taxes from $290 a week to $380 a week.

And more increases are coming.

On Jan. 1, 2022, employers will be required to pay a minimum wage of $11 an hour, or $440 for a 40-hour week before taxes.

On Jan. 1, 2023, the minimum wage is to rise to $12 an hour, or $480 a week before taxes.

The minimum wage would rise to $13.50 an hour on Jan. 1, 2025, and to $15 an hour on Jan. 1, 2026 if the General Assembly re-enacts the legislation before 2024.

However, the minimum wage will continue to rise no matter what happens. The new law indexes the minimum wage to inflation. The state commissioner of labor and industry is charged with setting a new minimum wage every year based on changes in price indexes, with the first announcement set for Oct. 1, 2026.

At this point, it is unclear how many workers will be impacted by the increase and what effect the rise in pay will have on employer hiring and staffing decisions.

According to federal data, most employers already pay more than the current federal and state minimum of $7.25 an hour that has been in place since 2009.

Of the 2 million people in Virginia paid hourly wages, only about 70,000, or 3.5 percent, are paid $7.25 an hour or less, according to federal data.

The increase for the lowest paid workers is expected to pressure employers to push up wages for those already being paid more, labor experts have indicated.

For the first time, housekeepers, chauffeurs, valets, home care providers and other domestic workers are covered. Also, employers of three or fewer employees, who were previously exempt from paying the minimum wage, now must do so.

However, some exemptions are listed in the statute that was approved. For example, the law authorizes restaurants and other companies whose employees receive tips to continue to pay the federal minimum of $2.13 an hour to each employee receiving tips totaling $30 or more per month.

Full-time students, golf caddies and farm workers also are not covered, according to the approved law.

Still, the hike in the minimum wage, which polls showed had public support, reflects the fact that Republicans in the General Assembly who stood like a stone wall against any increase are no longer in charge.

Voice your opinion on police civilian review board Have an opinion on Richmond’s plans for creating a civilian review board to provide oversight and hold hearings on complaints involving city police officers?

A city-created task force wants to hear from you before it formulates recommendations to send to City Council.

The task force is hosting a virtual listening session 6 p.m.

Thursday, April 29, to take calls and comments before moving ahead.

Here is how you can listen and take part, according to information provided to City Council: Connect to the Zoom meeting via this link, https://vcu.zoom.us/j/97009304361. Meeting ID: 97009304361#.

Or dial in by phone by calling (301) 715-8592 or (312) 6266799 and entering the meeting ID: 97009304361#.

Details: Jewel Gatling, jewelgatling45@gmail.com

Correction The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which serves Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin, has only white judges.

Because of an editing error, a column by Ben Jealous published in the April 15-17 edition of the Free Press incorrectly attributed the lack of diversity to the federal appeals court that serves Virginia, Maryland, West Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina.

The Free Press regrets the error.

A new addition to the Virginia Commonwealth University campus is taking shape – a building dedicated to science technology, engineering and math instruction. Location: 817 W. Franklin St., the former site of the Franklin Street Gym, which was demolished a year ago. When complete, the $121 million STEM building will rise six stories and include computer and teaching labs, specialty classrooms for instruction in chemistry, biology, math, psychology and kinesiology and cross-discipline projects. VCU officials say the 168,000-square-foot facility has been designed to be a state-of-the-art center for learning, research and collaboration.

City Electoral Board issues referred to commonwealth’s attorney

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

The Virginia Board of Elections punted Tuesday on trying to decide whether any wrongdoing occurred with the Richmond Electoral Board’s count of ballots in last November’s election.

The three-member state board led by Robert H. Brink voted to refer the complaints raised by Richmond Republicans against the city board’s two Democrats, James M. Nachman and Joyce K. Smith, to Richmond Commonwealth’s Attorney Colette W. McEachin for further fact-finding on whether any laws were broken.

The state board received statements from the accusers and from Mr. Nachman and Ms. Smith, but could not make a determination.

Mr. Brink, one of two Democrats on the

state board, said that neither the state board nor the Department of Elections “have the investigative tools or authority to definitively determine the facts in this matter.”

The state board Mr. Nachman is not empowered to remove members of local boards, but can refer a removal request to the local circuit court for further proceedings. Local electoral board members are appointed by the circuit court.

The city Republican Committee and the Republican member of the Richmond Electoral Board, C. Starlet Stevens, have alleged that Mr. Nachman and Ms. Smith

opened sealed envelopes with November election results prematurely and that Mr. Nachman completed the count of the votes at his home without party observers.

During the virtual meeting on Tuesday, Mr. Nachman told the board that the actions taken after the Nov. 3 election were lawful and done with the advice of the city voter registrar at the time, Kirk Showalter, whom the board fired three months later.

Mr. Nachman told the state board that referring the matter to Mrs. McEachin’s office was unnecessary as the statements he and Ms. Smith provided showed the Republican allegations are “unfounded” and “were just done in retaliation for us removing (Ms.) Showalter as registrar.”

Ms. Smith called the allegations offensive.

Historic site review slows rail lines planned over historic Black cemetery

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

Could a long-hidden Black cemetery impact plans to improve rail service between Richmond’s Main Street Station and Union Station in Washington, D.C.?

After years of trying to ignore the issue, the Federal Railroad Administration is finally paying attention.

The FRA just notified the state and the leading advocate for the cemetery, Lenora McQueen, that it will reopen its Section 106 historic site review in seeking to determine the effect the high-speed rail service may have on the historic burial ground at 5th and Hospital streets.

The move comes as planning and development continues for creating high-speed rail service between the state capital and the nation’s capital.

The cemetery originally was called the Grave Yard for Free People of Color and for Slaves. Now known as the Shockoe Hill African Burying Ground, the cityowned cemetery operated from 1816 to 1879 and is believed to be the final resting place of 22,000 Black people. It was the second burial ground the city created for free and enslaved residents.

Originally 2 acres, the cemetery grew down the hill at the site, and pillars for Interstate 64 and the current railroad tracks that were first laid around 1900 run through it, according to Ms. McQueen’s research.

The FRA review could lead to changes in the proposals to improve the current tracks and to lay new tracks.

The FRA announced the step Friday, just ahead of a City Hall announcement Monday that a 1.2-acre portion of the

cemetery is back under city ownership after decades as home to a privately owned vehicle repair shop.

Mayor Levar M. Stoney stated that with City Council support, the administration shifted $145,000 internally to purchase 1305 N. 5th St., which he described as the “known portion of the cemetery.” A highway billboard and the long-vacant vehicle repair shop are now on the property.

The city’s purchase comprises 1.2 acres of the original cemetery, 1 acre of which was for free people and the other acre for enslaved dead.

Ms. McQueen, who believes several of her relatives are buried in the cemetery, has uncovered old city maps that show the location and additional land that was devoted to the cemetery over time.

In 1960, the city sold the property to the Sun Oil Co. with no acknowledgement of the cemetery. Mayor Stoney said the city plans to begin researching and properly commemorating the site.

Meanwhile, Ms. McQueen stated Friday

in an email to the Free Press that she had been notified of the FRA’s decision. She stated that the FRA was taking the action after receiving notice from the Virginia Department of Historic Resources of the pending effort to add the Shockoe Hill Burying Ground Historic District to the state and federal registers of historic places.

The proposed historic district would include the Shockoe Hill African Burying Ground that lies on the northeast side of 5th and Hospital streets, along with the city’s Shockoe Hill Cemetery and the Hebrew Cemetery and other historic sites. Ms. Queen and local historians have spearheaded the creation of the district.

The FRA action is the latest triumph for Ms. McQueen, a Texas woman whose persistent lobbying over two years pushed the city to reacquire part of the cemetery and recognize it.

She stated the FRA also invited her to become “an officially recognized Section 106 consulting party.” Section 106 refers to a section of the federal historic preservation law that spells out the duties of federal agencies to identify, protect and prevent damage to historic sites in pursuing development.

“It is my sincere hope and request that the Shockoe Hill African Burying Ground will be given the care, honor, respect, recognition and protection that it so desperately deserves,” Ms. McQueen stated. The burial ground “has suffered so greatly and for so long. It deserves to be known, to be seen openly, honestly and in its entirety.”

New business investments to add more than 1,200 jobs Free Press staff report

More than 1,200 new jobs are headed to the Richmond area as the result of new business investments.

On Wednesday, retail giant Amazon joined Gov. Ralph S. Northam and Henrico County officials to announce the company would build another huge delivery fulfillment center in the Richmond area and create 1,000 new jobs when it opens in about 20 months.

The Seattle-based retail and grocery giant, which already operates 10 warehouses for deliveries in the state, including one in South Richmond and two near Petersburg, plans to develop its latest on 119 acres on land adjacent to the Richmond Raceway, Gov. Northam said.

Expected to open in 2022, the new

building would feature robots doing much of the work, the governor noted.

Amazon began operations in Virginia in 2006 and now employs 27,000 people in various operations.

Meanwhile, a fast-growing, Richmondbased biotech company announced Tuesday that it will spend $10.6 million to turn an old paint factory near the Greyhound bus station into its new home and add 250 new positions over three years.

The company is Grenova Inc., which employs 50 people at its current base at the Clopton Siteworks in South Side where it creates products that reduce plastic waste in research laboratories.

Gov. Northam and Richmond Mayor Levar M. Stoney joined Ali Safavi, Grenova’s founder and chief executive officer, at the factory at 1900 Ellen Road to announce

the expansion.

The company now produces devices that wash and sterilize contaminated pipette tips that are critical for scientific research so the tips can be reused multiple times instead of being discarded after one use.

Mr. Safavi said the company has experienced major growth as its product is adopted in laboratories worldwide in response to a shortage of the pipette tips for research on COVID-19 and other diseases.

He said the company that was started seven years ago also is exploring other potential product lines in keeping with the company’s name, which is short for Green Innovation.

“We are thrilled to celebrate this homegrown, sustainable biotech firm expanding and adding to its workforce in Richmond,” Gov. Northam said.

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Chauvin faces decades in prison after a jury convicts him of 3 counts in the killing of George Floyd Continued from A1

As the verdict was read, Mr. Chauvin’s face was obscured by a COVID-19 mask.

Little reaction could be seen beyond his eyes darting around the courtroom. His bail was immediately revoked. Sentencing will be in two months; the most serious charge carries up to 40 years in prison.

Defense attorney Eric Nelson followed Mr. Chauvin out of the courtroom without comment.

President Joe Biden welcomed the verdict, saying Mr. Floyd’s death was “a murder in full light of day, and it ripped the blinders off for the whole world” to see systemic racism.

But he warned: “It’s not enough. We can’t stop here. We’re going to deliver real change and reform. We can and we must do more to reduce the likelihood that tragedies like this will ever happen again.”

The joy and relief stood in stark contrast to the anger and sometimes violent protests that engulfed the country following Mr. Floyd’s horrific death that was captured on cellphone video by bystander Darnella Frazier, who was 17 at the time. The video immediately went viral on the internet.

Ms. Frazier’s tearful testimony about the incident she witnessed along with her 9-year-old cousin told of the trauma she still feels. She testified that Mr. Chauvin gave the bystanders a “cold” and “heartless” stare. She and others said they felt a sense of helplessness and lingering guilt from witnessing Mr. Floyd’s slow-motion death.

“It’s been nights I stayed up, apologizing and apologizing to George Floyd for not doing more, and not physically interacting and not saving his life,” she testified.

In an emoji-filled post on social media

Tuesday, Ms. Frazier wrote that she “cried so hard” when she heard the verdict. “…GUILTY ON ALL 3 CHARGES!!!

THANK YOU GOD THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU George Floyd we did it!! Justice has been served.”

But Tuesday’s celebrations were tempered with the heavy knowledge that Mr. Chauvin’s conviction was just a first step on the long road to address racial injustices by police.

Many said they had prepared for a different result after watching countless deaths of people of color at the hands of police who went unpunished. The shooting death of another Black man, Daunte Wright, by officers in suburban Minneapolis during the trial and of 13-year-old Adam Toledo in Chicago last month heightened tensions and muted the court victory for many.

In Columbus, Ohio, some residents had their celebration over the verdict cut short by reports Tuesday that police fatally shot a 16-year-old Black girl, Ma’Khia Bryant.

“As you’re getting one phone call that he was guilty, I’m getting the next phone call that this is happening in my neighborhood,” Kimberly Shepherd said.

Several hours later, police released body-camera footage that appeared to show the officer firing just as the girl lunged at another female with a knife.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson traveled to Minneapolis for the verdict, and said there was relief but no celebrating “because the killing continues.”

“Finally we did get some justice,” Gwen Carr, the mother of Eric Garner, a Black man who died at the hands of police in New York City in 2014, said after pronouncing herself “elated” at the verdict. No criminal charges were brought

in her son’s death; his last words were “I can’t breathe,” which became a rallying cry among activists.

In Los Angeles, several dozen people gathered to celebrate at the corner of Florence and Normandie avenues, which was the scene of chaos and violence in 1992 when the city dissolved into riots after four officers were acquitted in the beating of motorist Rodney King. A Black man in a Lakers cap danced and chanted: “Get used to this, get used to justice!” Passing cars blared their horns as demonstrators waved signs and Black Lives Matter flags.

In Houston’s Third Ward, the historically Black neighborhood where Mr. Floyd grew up, a small crowd gathered under a tent near a mural of Mr. Floyd to listen as the verdict was read on TV. People driving by honked their car horns and yelled, “Justice!”

“We feeling good. We thank everybody that stood with us. It’s a blessed moment,” said Jacob David, 39, who knew Mr. Floyd and wiped away tears.

At the intersection where Mr. Floyd was pinned down, a crowd chanted, “One down, three to go!” — a reference to the three other fired Minneapolis officers facing trial in August on charges of aiding and abetting murder in Mr. Floyd’s death.

It is unusual for police officers to be prosecuted for killing someone on the job.

And convictions are extraordinarily rare.

Out of the thousands of deadly police shootings in the United States since 2005, fewer than 140 officers have been charged with murder or manslaughter, according to data maintained by Phil Stinson, a criminologist at Bowling Green State University. Before Tuesday, only seven were convicted of murder.

Early voting begins April 23 for Dem primary Continued from A1

burnum Ave. Additional early voting sites will be open 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekdays at of Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School, 1000 Mosby St. in the East End, and at the Hickory Hill Community Center, 3000 E. Belt Blvd. in South Side.

Voters also can request absentee mail-in ballots either online or by mail from the Richmond Voter Registar, P.O. Box 61037, Richmond, Va. 23261. The deadline to

Casino contenders down to 2 Continued from A1

indicated whether the city would receive an upfront payment should it be selected for the project.

Sources have told the Free Press that Cordish, a real estate development company, likes the site and would consider its development even if it loses the casino bid. The sources also said the company is eager to become the master developer for the city’s 60-acre parcel where The Diamond baseball stadium stands. The city is planning to issue a request for proposals this year.

Free COVID-19 testing Continued from A1 • Thursday, April 29, 2 to 4 p.m., Eastern Henrico Health Department, 1400 N. Laburnum Ave., Eastern Henrico.

Drive-thru testing.

Appointments are encouraged by calling the Richmond and Henrico COVID19 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. Want a COVID-19 vaccine?

Call the Richmond and Henrico Health Districts COVID-19 hotline — (804) 2053501 — from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday

apply is Thursday, May 20.

Those with a valid Virginia DMV issued ID can apply online at www.elections. virginia.gov. You also can request a paper version of the form from the voter registrar’s office or print one provided at the following link, www.elections.virginia.gov/media/ castyourballot/SBE-701-703.1.pdf.

The competition is fierce for all of the offices, with 25,000 to 40,000 people in Richmond forecast to cast ballots in the early voting or on primary day.

In the primary race for the state’s chief executive, former Gov. Terry R. McAuliffe is regarded as the front runner among the five candidates, including Richmond state Sen. Jennifer L. McClellan, former Prince William County Delegate Jennifer D. Carroll Foy, Prince William County Delegate Lee J. Carter and Lt. Gov. Justin E. Fairfax.

Six people are vying to replace Mr. Fairfax in the lieutenant governor post: Delegates Hala S. Ayala, Mark H. Levine and S. “Sam” Rasoul; Norfolk City Councilwoman Andria P. McClellan (no relation to Sen. McClellan); former Fairfax County NAACP President Sean A. Perryman; and nonprofit lobbyist Xavier JaMar Warren. A seventh candidate, Delegate Elizabeth R. Guzman, also of Prince William County, has dropped out of the race.

Two are vying for attorney general: through Friday to schedule a vaccine appointment.

Or contact the statewide COVID-19 Vaccination Pre-Registration System at vaccinate.virginia.gov or by calling 877VAX-IN-VA, or (877) 829-4682.

The statewide call center is open 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. seven days a week to help people pre-register by phone or to answer questions about the vaccine. The call center has English- and Spanish-speaking agents and a call-back service to help people in more than 100 other languages.

Additionally, TTY service is available to help people who are deaf or hard of hearing.

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

Incumbent Mark R. Herring and Norfolk Delegate Jerrauld C. “Jay” Jones.

In Richmond area House races, incumbent Delegate Dawn M. Adams is facing a challenge from Kyle R. Elliott in the 68th District; incumbent Delegate Jeffrey M. Bourne is facing a challenge from Richard W. Walker in the 71st District; and incumbent Delegate Lamont Bagby is facing a challenge from John R. Dantzler II in the 74th House District.

In local races, incumbent Sheriff Antionette V. Irving is facing a challenge from former Lt. Col. William J. Burnett, who headed the day to day operations of the Richmond City Justice Center during the tenure of former Sheriff C.T. Woody Jr. Separately, incumbent Richmond Commonwealth’s Attorney Colette W. McEachin is facing a challenge from defense attorney and former assistant commonwealth’s attorney Thomas P. “Tom” Barbour Jr. For information on the primary elections, contact your local voter registrar’s office: • Richmond: (804) 646-5950 or www. richmondgov.com/registrar/ • Henrico County: (804) 501-4347 or henrico.us/registrar/ • Chesterfield County: (804) 748-1471 or www.chesterfield.gov/Registrar • Hanover County: (804) 365-6080 or www.hanovercounty.gov/365/voting For more information: vax.rchd.com.

The Richmond and Henrico County health districts plan to close down the Arthur Ashe Jr. Athletic Center vaccination site by the end of the month and open several smaller vaccination hubs throughout the area.

The new sites include the Islamic Center of Henrico & Masjid Al-Falah, 7705 Impala Drive in Lakeside, the VCU Health Hub at 25th, 1330 N. 25th St. in Church Hill, and St. James Baptist Church in Varina, 2169 New Market Road. A location in North Side is still under consideration.

Vaccination centers at the Richmond Raceway, 600 E. Laburnum Ave. in Eastern Henrico, and at George Wythe High School, 4314 Crutchfield St. in South Side, will remain open.

Area leaders react to verdict Continued from A1 general and all elected officials to immediately initiate a commission of varied membership to identify the inequalities of the criminal justice system and to recommend corrections of the centuries-old history of discrimination against the poor and citizens of color, with a mandate to report the scope of the problem in 90 days.

“After former FBI Director James Comey’s report and studies of 2006 and the events of Jan. 6, 2021, the state attorney general should immediately investigate the infiltration of law enforcement by the Ku Klux Klan and white supremacists and develop lawful means to remove their influence. Chesterfield County and the Capitol Police have identified white supremacist officers in the recent past.

“The Derek Chauvin trial is not to be a checkered flag, but a starting gun to end the overt and covert weakening of America by the influences of racism, discrimination, inequality and bigotry.”

Richmond Police Chief Gerald M. Smith: “This verdict rights an egregious wrong and confirms that the path of change is moving in the right direction.

The scales of justice feel a little more balanced today.

“George Floyd did not have to die.

“It’s time for law enforcement to take a Chief Smith hard look at ourselves. It’s time for us, as a people, to take a hard look at ourselves. This is a turning point in our justice system, in policing, in our everyday lives.

“This has to be the springboard to truly reimagine public safety. But it starts with the individual person. Departments everywhere need to seek out the right personnel when selecting the next generation of police officers.

“Police officers sometimes have to police themselves. When you are wrong, you are wrong. Richmond Police is working to get it right.”

Charles D. Willis, executive director, United Communities Against Crime: “The work of reforming is just beginning. We are blessed here in Richmond because of our community relationship with the police. We have officers who work, live and shop in the communities they patrol. We have a great opportunity to be a model city on how community Mr. Willis policing works.

“I strongly urge citizens to learn more about violence prevention-conflict resolution, which will assist in how to resolve conflicts without resorting to violence.

“George Floyd’s name will forever be in our history memory banks. Generations after generations need to know how George Floyd changed the world, how history was rewritten and what ‘No Justice, No Peace’ really looks like.”

Robert N. Barnette Jr., president, Virginia State Conference of NAACP: “The trial of Derek Chauvin for killing George Floyd serves as a reminder of the urgent need to pass legislation to hold police accountable, change the culture of law enforcement and build trust between law enforcement and our communities by preventing police brutality and allowing survivors and families of victims access Mr. Barnette to justice.

“A guilty verdict proves that this country is still able to find a pulse and a sense of direction. It does not mend the decades of damages enacted on the Black community at the hands of law enforcement. True healing comes with legislation that protects our communities, breeds safety and trust and holds our law enforcement to a higher standard.

“We must prevent dangerous officers from moving from one department to another to avoid accountability by establishing a national database of civilian police encounters, including the use of force and traffic stops, and require the collection, analysis and release of such data to track and hold bad officers accountable. In addition, we must put an end to qualified immunity, which protects government officials from lawsuits seeking monetary damages.”

Lawrence West, founder, BLMRVA: “This is a small step toward Black liberation…

“We are celebrating (the verdict), but this is far from equality in the justice system. How many Black men have been killed without recourse? One conviction of an officer does not make any of the other unjustified deaths OK. We still say their names.

“Real reform and systemic change Mr. West comes through statistical evaluation of normal judicial procedures and proceedings. This is why we have created a court watch program. Every charge ends up in court and, hopefully, we can be there so we don’t have to go to the police to collect data that might reveal systemic issues.

“We also are working with Richmond Commonwealth’s Attorney Colette W. McEachin to implement our diversion program, “Jobs Not Jail,” to keep people out of jail and help them enter the workforce.

“We have real solutions and we are making real change locally.

We encourage action toward real change in Richmond. People can go to blmrva.com and sign up for our programs.”

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District; Stephanie M. Rizzi, 5th District; Mariah L. White, 2nd District; and Jonathan M. Young, 4th District.

The four other board members, Liz B. Doerr,1st District; Cheryl L. Burke, 7th District; Dawn C. Page, 8th District; and Nichole Jones, 9th District, have been adamantly opposed.

The April 12 action halted City Hall’s plan to issue RFPs before the end of April for replacing the George Wythe building and installing the new technical center in a former tobacco factory on South Side that Altria donated to the school system several years ago as part of a new partnership with Reynolds Community College.

Reynolds is to operate the center.

The creation of both schools are priorities for the city and the School Board.

The board’s sudden intervention shocked and dismayed Ms. Lynch, who has been pressing Mayor Stoney and his staff to step up the pace

of developing and issuing the RFPs, particularly for George Wythe, which is in her district.

“We cannot tolerate any delay in getting a new school built,” Ms. Lynch said. “As an elected representative, and as a parent of a student who will have to take classes in that decrepit building, we need swift action.”

In issuing her call, Ms. Lynch acknowledged, based on a new opinion from Attorney General Mark R. Herring, that the School Board can control school construction. However, as the board has no independent funding source, she also noted that the School Board could not proceed to develop any new buildings without council including money for that purpose in the school’s budget.

“That’s not going to happen,” she said.

No such request, though, was included in the fiscal 2021-22 budget that is being wrapped up ahead of the July 1 starting date. As a result, any such request could not be considered before next spring during deliberations on the 2022-23 fiscal year budget. “That would auto-

matically delay everything for at least a year,” Ms. Lynch said.

Ms. Lynch has scheduled a special session of her committee for Thursday, April 22, to hear testimony from Mr. Kamras, who has warned the board it likely would need to hire 15 new staffers at a cost of $3 million and should expect development of a replacement George Wythe to be delayed until 2027.

She said if the School Board gives up its quest to control construction, the school system still would be in charge of building design and public engagement and would be included on the city’s construction team. But she said the board currently lacks the capacity to handle the work and should not spend money to duplicate functions that the city already has in place.

Mayor Stoney used Monday’s news conference at the George Wythe building to also urge the board to reconsider, citing the success of the city-school partnership in the development of the new Cardinal and Marsh elementary schools

and River City Middle School.

“What we have proven, when working together, is that we do get things done,” Mayor Stoney said.

He reminded of his promise last October, ahead of his re-election, “that we were going to build a new George Wythe before 2024.”

Corey Stuckey, a senior at George Wythe, recalled that the building has been on the list for replacement since 2002 — before he was born —“and it is still not done.”

“It’s time for us to act. I don’t want to hear anything else until an action is attached to the promise,” said Mr. Stuckey, a founder of the 381 Movement. “I don’t want to hear George Wythe is being rebuilt unless it is actually being rebuilt.”

Seeking to keep the pressure on, Mr. Stuckey called on people who support a replacement of George Wythe to join him at 1 p.m. Friday, April 23, for a march from the Maggie L. Walker statue at Adams and Broad streets to City Hall.

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Mass shootings can’t all be put off on mental illness, experts say

By Reginald Stuart

The recent proliferation of violent shootings and mass murders in cities and towns around the nation have spurred many people to ask, “What is going on?”

Puzzled, America’s backbone is being challenged by myriad developments converging at one time, say social scientists around Virginia.

“People are stressed out, grieving the loss of loved ones, the loss of freedoms due to the pandemic and being at home all day long,” said Dr. Cynthia Ellison, a licensed psychologist and director of the counseling center at Virginia State University. “We can typically pull from our previous coping strategies, we could transfer the learning,” she said. “But we don’t have a blueprint for dealing with life in this pandemic,” she said.

The challenges outlined by Dr. Ellison and her peers range from the impact of the potentially fatal airborne COVID-19 virus that has killed millions in the past year, including more than 10,600 Virginians, and disrupted all aspects of society’s regular routine, to the demands of the “impatient generation” for social equity and a number of developments in between, they say.

“You can’t pinpoint one thing” as a cause

of the violence and incivility, said veteran psychologist and Virginia Commonwealth University Professor Dr. Shawn Utsey.

Dr. Utsey, who is championing a revival of the Virginia Association of Black Psychologists, echoed colleagues’ calls in cautioning against lumping every concern about a traumatic incident into the category of “that person must have been crazy.”

“There are different levels of stress impacting people,” said Dr. ErnesDr. Utsey tine Duncan, a psychology professor at Norfolk State University and frequent participant in university and community talks about coping with and enduring life’s challenges.

“Stress is not mental illness,” Dr. Duncan noted, adding that these two things are far apart on the personal health scale.

In fact, a small fraction of the mass murders—less than 8 percent based on a recent Columbia University study of mass deaths and murders during the past 50 years—show a direct relationship to mental illness, she said.

Citing “stress” as perhaps a “significant” contributor to the chaos today, she said people

are confronting challenges in “clusters,” complicating a self-defense strategy.

Dr. Ellison voiced the same caution against putting the range of ailments into the “same box” and summing up public troubles to mental illness.

Citing reports of the surge of violent behavior among young people, she said there is a story behind each incident and each needs study individually. Not every incident can be written up as mental illness.

So many people feel Dr. Duncan “tired of being marginalized and are becoming more vocal,” not knowing the difference between being “assertive and aggressive,” Dr. Ellison said.

She said people are “speaking their truth and are less afraid” than in past generations when an older adult speaking would mean silence among the young. Today, people need to assert themselves “in a respectful way without screaming and name calling,” Dr. Ellison said.

She said that’s a piece of advice she shares with students and others who are learning to better manage stress.

Dr. Utsey calls those self-defense strategies in a self-defense toolbox, noting too many

people don’t have their personal coping tools fully developed.

The landscape is different today than in the past, said Dr. Joann Thomas-Wilson, a noted clinical psychologist in Metro Richmond for several decades.

“Part of this is associated with frustration of the American life,” she said, adding the traditional combination for success — working hard, being nice, kind and considerate — isn’t working in the minds of young people. More and more people under age 40 are saying, “ ‘As hard as we try, we can’t get ahead,’ ” Dr. Thomas-Wilson said she finds in her consultations.

Older people who grew up in different work environments with different work ethics and more optimistic, long-term expectations are less likely to blow a fuse, she said.

Younger people’s “sense of what’s right is distorted,” said Dr. Thomas-Wilson. “Part of this is out of frustration and part is recognizing they can’t beat the system.”

Speaking about the rash of young people involved in violent and, sometimes deadly, behavior, Dr. Thomas-Wilson said, in some cases the young person “didn’t have the emotional guidance they needed. Now they are just angry people. If they are at the end of their line, they snap,” she said. “Anger is what manifests itself.”

Patients and doctors alike adapt during a year of COVID-19

By Ronald E. Carrington

During the height of the coronavirus pandemic, everyday activities people often took for granted — hugs, seeing friends at birthday parties, dinners out and midday coffee runs with colleagues — were no longer considered safe and harmless.

Life as we knew it was fundamentally altered. Isolation has affected many people’s personal outlook and emotional and mental stability, according to the experts.

It’s important to recognize the various stages of emotions that have hit people during the past year living under COVID19, said Dr. Rashida Gray, a board certified psychiatrist in the Richmond area whose practice specialty includes anxiety, depression and medication management.

“People’s emotional reactions, emotional responses and stress points have evolved over the course of the past year,” she said.

“Initially, my patients were scared. However, they were excited about time and life slowing down” during the lockdown, when many jobs, schools and businesses were shut down.

“Patients questioned what they could do with that extra time and the value of that time.”

During the latter half of the year, Dr. Gray was seeing a lot of loneliness among her patients.

“This is especially true for

people living alone, people who are single or older who can’t readily connect with others either electronically or not being able to go outside,” Dr. Gray noted. “Loneliness has worn people down quite a bit a lot.”

Dr. Gray also noted grief as another huge psychological issue people are dealing with, particularly as COVID-19 has claimed the lives of more than 10,600 people in Virginia alone and resulted in more than 567,000 deaths across the nation.

In addition to these personal and universal losses, people have lost jobs, can’t participate in family milestones or go to their favorite restaurants or participate in activities that were part of normal life, all of which have an impact.

In contrast, Dr. Gray noted, most people can see some good coming out of the past year.

“Some people see something good about this time period,” Dr. Gray said, adding that she has seen a reduction of fear in some patients as vaccinations have been stepped up.

Like people, Dr. Gray and other medical professionals have adjusted their practices during the past year because of COVID-19. Dr. Gray, a solo practitioner, has gone from inperson visits with patients to tele-psychiatry appointments only that are conducted using a HIPAA-compliant video platform to protect a patient’s privacy.

Dr. Paula Young, a pediatrician in Richmond, sees patients

with the Bon Secours Care-AVan, a mobile free clinic that serves low-income patients and people who are uninsured or underinsured. A major portion of their patients come from Latino communities in Richmond, Petersburg and some surrounding counties.

According to the University of Virginia medical school graduate, the coronavirus has caused stress in every kind of way for physicians in general.

In many cases, patient appointments have moved from face-to-face to virtual, which is very different, she said.

From the beginning of the pandemic, doctors have been concerned about everything they touch, she continued.

Physicians have been mindful of using their stethoscopes on patients or touching items in their office. Even if a pen has been used by someone else, doctors may hesitate to touch it because of the potential of transmitting the virus, she said.

However, within her team, Dr. Young said, “during this past year we have been very supportive of every person’s professional and personal needs. My colleagues are more understanding of me using more virtual appointments and tools,” said Dr. Young, who noted she has an underlying condition that may make her more susceptible to COVID-19.

Her patient care appointments are done virtually by phone and/or an interactive Zoom platform, often using a virtual stethoscope. She can perform heart and lung

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The first panel, “Are You Ready for ReOpening?”, will be held 8 p.m. Thursday, April 22, and will feature Dr. Danny Avula, state vaccine coordinator with the Virginia Department of Health; Rev. Marvin L. Gilliam Jr. of Mount Carmel Baptist Church; Alisha SaundersWilson and Bob Nickles of ChildSavers; and the Rev. Pierre L. Greene of Capitol Financial

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“That reduces my stress as our team is there for each other in every way possible,” Dr. Young said.

Her long-standing question for her pediatric team is simple: Are we stressing or are we just aware?

“Our job is to help our patients,” she said. “However, now during COVID, we extend that to our colleagues. We are more in tune with each other, although there is social distancing going on. Modern communication, using technology

platforms and the phone, has improved during the course of the last year.”

Dr. Young said patients are asking more questions about the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention COVID-19 guidelines and how and where they can get vaccinated.

“Patients also want to know, after getting the first shot, when can they get the second shot. Can they get it a week late? Will they be immune after the second shot?” Dr. Young said.

She views that interest in the vaccine as a great benefit coming out of the last 12 months.

Dr. Young said families also

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John Marshall High renames gym, field to honor former coaches

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Left, Coach Frank Threatts Jr. and Coach Lou Anderson

where he replaced the legendary football Coach Fred “Cannonball” Cooper. As a new coach, Coach Anderson led the Mighty Green Dragons to a 10-0 season record in 1975.

In 1979, Coach Anderson was elevated to head coach at the renamed Marshall-Walker High School complex, and over the next 10 years led the football team to six district and two regional championships.

In 1987, his last year with Richmond Public Schools, he coached at Armstrong High School before going to Virginia State University, where he coached for 11 seasons until his retirement in 2001.

He was enshrined in the VSU Hall of Fame in 1999, the CIAA McLendon Hall of Fame in 2013, as well as the RPS Athletic Hall of Fame in 2015.

Coach Threatts, who died in January 2015, graduated from Maggie L. Walker High School in 1954 and posted a career coaching record of 559-343 from 1962 to 2010.

His coaching career began in 1962 at St. Emma Military Academy in Powhatan, but he later left the rural Catholic boys school for John Marshall High School, where he taught history and also became the school’s first African-American coach in 1970-71.

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The John Marshall High School gymnasium and athletic field are getting new names to honor two coaches who were instrumental in the North Side school’s sports history and in mentoring youths.

At a Richmond School Board meeting Monday night, the board approved the high school administration’s request to rename the gymnasium after the late basketball Coach Frank Threatts Jr. and the football field after former Coach Louis “Lou” Anderson.

The coaches’ sons, Frank Threatts III, a teacher at Armstrong, and Glenn Anderson, athletic and activities director at Armstrong High School, were happy and honored to have their dads recognized in such a way.

They said their fathers were loving, but no-nonsense coaches, and men of strong faith who believed in structure, order and discipline for their studentathletes in order to become well-rounded leaders in the future.

“My dad’s players wore the same color sneakers when they played, wore a suit to the game and were to neatly cut their hair,” Frank Threatts III said of his late father in a Free Press interview. “There was no discussion with the coach about his decisions.”

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Coach Threatts was known as a man of integrity who put the educational interests of students front and center. He was a motivator on and off the court. His coaching record at John Marshall alone was 345-221, with his teams winning state Group AAA titles in 1982 and 1983.

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During the last two weeks of March and first week of April, Americans were shocked with alarming news of mass shootings and violent attacks in Atlanta; Bould e r, C o l o . ; Washington, D.C.; and York County, S.C. Out of the 20 mass shootings and violent attacks during that time, one very distressing element stands out: A number of the attacks were carried out by GenZs — those ages 14 to 24 — and Millennials — those ages 25 to 38 — from diverse racial groups and regions of the United States.

For example, on April 7, in York County, S.C., 32-year-old Millennial and former NFL player Phillip Adams committed a mass shooting of a renowned local doctor, his wife, their two grandchildren and two workers. Early reports say Mr. Adams, who later committed suicide, suffered from footballrelated brain concussions.

On April 2 in Washington, 25-year-old Millennial Noah Green rammed his car into two Capitol Police officers at a bar-

ricade outside the U.S. Capitol, killing one of the officers and injuring the other. Reports from his family indicate Mr. Green was suffering from prescription drug use, paranoia and depression. He was killed at the scene of the violence.

Dr. Stephanie Myers On March 18, 21-year-old Gen Z Robert Aaron Long, killed eight people at three Atlanta area spas, including six Asian women. He claimed sex addiction as a reason for

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And on March 22 in Boulder, Colo., 21-year-old Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa allegedly killed 10 people at a grocery store.

His relatives and schoolmates say Mr. Alissa was bullied in school for being Muslim and retaliated with anger.

These four young men who perpetrated violence were from diverse racial groups and in different regions of the country.

But what they had in common was they were either Millennials or Gen Zs who were obviously suffering from serious mental health issues. What was being done to help them? Where were their parents, mentors, faith leaders, aunts, uncles, social workers, colleagues, etc.? Did

they have trained support or were they dealing with their crisis mostly alone?

Generation X and Baby Boomers in America have to stop being self-absorbed and start paying attention to depressed Gen Z and Millennial individuals. According to the 2019 U.S. Census reports, these groups now make up the largest age-based demographic groups in the United States.

Research by the Annie E. Casey Foundation finds that Gen Zs are suffering from high levels of depression and this must be taken seriously. Plus, they are impacted by the killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and many more Black men and women.

How can Generation X and Baby Boomers help Millennials and Gen Zs who are suffering from anxiety, COVID-19 lockdowns, student debt, job loss and other societal factors?

Black Women for Positive Change, a national multicultural, intergenerational network of women and good brothers, has sponsored 10 annual Weeks of Nonviolence.

During those years, we have heard a multitude of stories from participants about causes of violence, depression and anxiety. We have found that many GenZs and Millennials suffer from lack of parenting, mentorship and productive, engaging activities.

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Standing on sidelines not an option In the long arc of the nation’s history of racially motivated voter suppression, 2021 will stand as a clear and distinct moment that changed everything that came after. Whether it will symbolize the demise of such suppression – or its shameful entrenchment – remains to be seen.

Certainly, racially motivated voter suppression is nothing new. The right of Black men to vote wasn’t even constitutionally protected for the first 94 years of the nation’s existence. And the terrorist regime of Jim Crow blocked most Black citizens in the South from voting for the next 95 years.

But the surge of restrictive voting laws that began after the U.S. Supreme Court gutted the federal Voting Rights Act with its 2013 decision in Shelby County v. Holder became a tsunami in the backlash to the historic Black voter turnout in 2020.

The long-overdue moment for corporate America to take a stand is upon us. And it has been brought about by its most influential Black members.

Led by Kenneth Chenault, the former CEO of American Express; Kenneth Frazier, CEO of Merck & Co.; former Xerox Holdings Corp. CEO Ursula Burns; and William M. Lewis Jr., chairman of investment banking at Lazard, hundreds of corporate

executives signed an open letter opposing voting limits that ran as a two-page advertisement in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and other publications last week.

The powerful — and deeply patriotic – statement reads, very simply: “We stand for democracy.

Marc H. Morial “A government of the people, by the people.

“A beautifully American ideal, but a reality denied to many for much of this nation’s history.

“As Americans, we know that in our democracy, we should not expect to agree on everything. However, regardless of our political affiliations, we believe the very foundation of our electoral process rests upon the ability of each of us to cast our ballots for the candidates of our choice.

“For American democracy to work for any of us, we must ensure the right to vote for all of us.

“We all should feel a responsibility to defend the right to vote and to oppose any discriminatory legislation or measures that restrict or prevent any eligible voter from having an equal and fair opportunity to cast a ballot.”

The CEOs and other top executives of 300 companies, along with law firms, nonprofit leaders, academics and celebri-

ties, signed their names to the letter.

“These are not political issues,” Mr. Frazier told the New York Times “These are the issues that we were taught in civics.”

Mr. Chenault, Mr. Frazier, Ms. Burns and Mr. Lewis, all trailblazers in their industries, are longtime advocates for corporate social responsibility and civic engagement. In a prelude to last week’s statement, they organized a full-page advertisement in the New York Times on March 31, headlined “Memo to Corporate America: The Fierce Urgency is Now.” That advertisement was signed by 72 Black executives.

“We think now that corporate America, Black Americans for sure, but anyone who has values in their corporation that talk about diversity, equity and inclusion, any company that has a values statement about valuing their employees has to stand with our statement,” Ms. Burns told CBS News. “Because their employees — Black, white, Hispanic, women — literally are going to be affected by this type of suppression.”

In a historic act of solidarity, hundreds of corporations did just that. Whether states will heed their call isn’t clear. But it will be remembered as a moment when standing on the sidelines was – at long last — no longer an option.

The writer is president and chief executive officers of the National Urban League.

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In addition, our outreach informs us that Millennials and Gen Zs complain about lack of opportunities and dreams for their futures.

Therefore, it is important for the Biden Administration to factor in the need for “opportunities” in violence prevention programs to assist youth with overcoming the obstacles of the COVID-19 pandemic, job loss, single-headed households under pressures and other issues. New approaches are needed to provide Gen Zs and Millennials with opportunities to move forward, overcome obstacles and have productive, positive lives.

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Letters to the Editor

School Board should focus on education, not school construction Re “School Board taking control of new building construction,” Free Press April 15-17 edition: Members of the Richmond School Board are putting politics over people.

The board’s vote on April 12, which was done without public notice or any input, made a change to the way that new schools are built and will delay the building of a new George Wythe High School.

These games have been played with the George Wythe community before, with the community being told that they were on the list for a new building and then it was snatched away from them.

Mayor Levar M. Stoney, Richmond City Council and the School Board made a commitment to building a new school once and for

A ‘bid for cheap immortality’ Re “Confederate chair held ransom: White Lies Matter group threatens to turn stolen $500,000 chair into a ‘toilet’ unless the United Daughters of the Confederacy in Richmond posts banner on anniversary of Confederate surrender,” Free Press April 8-10 edition: While the new administration and its Virginia cronies are running roughshod over the Constitution and foolishly running the country full tilt into socialism, and while China is taking over the world with an inscrutable smile, the erudite Richmond Free Press blares headlines about a group of Martin Luther King civil rights wannabes who sneak into a cemetery in Alabama, steal and vandalize a memorial chair, and “hold it for ransom” from the United Daughters of the Confederacy, threatening otherwise to use it for a toilet.

No, it is not called ransom. It is called felonious theft and blackmail across state lines.

So much for their lofty ideals that they no doubt are proud to post on their Facebook pages.

Aside from their bid for cheap immortality with the news media, (White Lies Matter) merely belittle themselves and confirm once more a widespread and ineradicable opinion long held about them.

H.V. TRAYWICK JR. Richmond

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all, with $100 million for school construction in this current capital budget. The process to start this new school was set to begin this summer until certain members of the School Board chose to put their own politics over the needs of our community.

The School Board is neither prepared, nor does it have the funding, to take over school construction. It would require them to create a whole separate department and receive approval from the state. This would cost millions of unnecessary dollars and set Richmond back from building any new schools for years.

Richmond students cannot afford to wait.

George Wythe already has been told once that it doesn’t matter. How can these School Board members, including our own 5th District representative, Stephanie M. Rizzi, tell them again they don’t matter now?

Tell the School Board to start focusing on getting our kids back to school safely, healing the disparities in our school system and allocating every last dollar directly to teachers, students and instruction and not into top heavy administrative functions.

Let the city continue its commitment to funding new buildings and building them and let them use our existing resources, which has enabled us to build three new beautiful new schools and more to come.

Tell our School Board to stop focusing on politics and things outside their purview and focus on the people that matter most— the young people and families of Richmond Public Schools.

REV. ROBIN MINES Richmond

Police brutality should not become the norm We should not be looking at murders live on television of Black men and women and saying, “I’m shocked! Oh my God, another one murdered!”

We stop for a moment in disbelief only to wonder what will happen in the case.

There are too many cases where there is a slap on the hand or a change of locations when police officers walk away after callously murdering an African-American male or female.

One brave former officer, Cariol Horne, talked recently about the stand she took in 2006 when a white fellow officer in Buffalo, N.Y., used a chokehold on an African-American male. She was fired for trying to stop the officer from using

the chokehold and lost her pension. She saved the Black man’s life.

I wonder why other officers stand by and allow senseless murders to occur.

Even when the message of retaliation was sent — “You never cross that Blue Line” — Officer Horne never gave up the fight. She won a legal ruling recently in which she may finally be receiving her back pay and pension.

For these sanctioned murders and brutality by police departments to stop, we must demand accountability and action from our legislators to implement laws such as Cariol’s Law, which was enacted in Buffalo and makes it mandatory for officers to intervene when actions of another

officer could result in death or harm and protects the officer who reports it from any retaliation.

There also should be a registry where officers involved in these harmful actions would be required to register and not be allowed to be hired by other police departments.

Investigations should be conducted and charges brought in all cases involving police murders so that murder and brutality no longer becomes the norm.

These shocking actions taken by those who defy justice should receive the strong impact of the law!

PATRICIA BROWN North Chesterfield

Police need help to stop the violence In Richmond lately, there have been several deadly shootings in our beloved city. Reasons for many have yet to be determined.

There is never a reason, to me, to take someone’s life unless in self defense. But this does not seem to fit the motives in these cases.

Richmond Police cannot stop these violent people by themselves. Help is needed. We must be the eyes and ears for them so that they can apprehend these violent criminals.

Many of these violent criminals are juveniles who have no respect for human life.

These types of violent crimes must be curtailed with our help. We cannot just turn our heads and think it doesn’t impact you because next time it might just be you. You then would hope that someone would tell the police what they saw so they could apprehend the criminals. This goes both ways.

We are talking about how COVID-19 is killing many people, but we also are killing one another through violence. This

string of violence must stop. Various areas of the city are being hit with this rash of violence and it has become disturbing.

Let’s give law enforcement our help and get these criminals off the street.

Each life is precious. Remember, they are someone’s loved one.

ERNEST PARKER JR. Richmond The writer is a former interim superintendent of the Richmond Juvenile Detention Center.

‘Gun control has nothing to do with guns; it is people control’

The purpose of this letter is correct myths surrounding the AR-15 rifle, the most popular rifle in America.

The letters “AR” in the name of the rifle don’t stand for “Assault Rifle.” It stands for Armalite Rifle, the company that developed it in the 1950s.

To dispel a common myth, an AR-15 rifle has never been used in Virginia for a mass shooting.

AR-15 rifles are civilian copies of military rifles. They look similar on the outside but are very different on the inside.

The AR-15 rifle is not an assault rifle. A real assault rifle, by definition, must have a manual switch that allows the rifle to be fired in the automatic mode as a machine gun or in

Route 60 (Midlothian Turnpike) Restricted Crossing U-Turn Improvement Chesterfield County Virtual Public Information Meeting Thursday, April 29, 2021, 5 – 7 p.m. https://www.virginiadot.org/Route60ChesterfieldRCUT See preliminary information for the proposed improvements to Route 60 (Midlothian Turnpike) from 0.25 miles west of Old Buckingham Road /Woolridge Road to Heaths Way, a total project length of 0.22 miles.

The proposed plan is to construct a restricted crossing U-turn (RCUT) intersection at Route 60 and Woolridge Road/Old Buckingham Road in Chesterfield County. The purpose of this project is to improve safety at this intersection. Information may be found at the project website above.

The meeting will be held as a virtual/online event. VDOT representatives will make a presentation beginning at 5 p.m. and be available to answer questions after the presentation is complete. The presentation will be available for review throughout the comment period.

Give your comments during/after the virtual presentation, online through the project web site form, or by email to William.Wheeler@VDOT.Virginia.gov.

Written comments may also be submitted to William Wheeler, Project Manager, Virginia Department of Transportation, 2430 Pine Forest Drive, South Chesterfield, VA 23834. All comments must be received by May 9, 2021. Please reference “UPC 115412 Route 60 RCUT Public Comments” in the subject line.

VDOT ensures nondiscrimination and equal employment in all programs and activities in accordance with Title VI and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. If you need special assistance for persons with disabilities or limited English proficiency, contact the project manager listed above.

State Project: 0060-020-854; Federal Project: NHPP-5A27(726); UPC: 115412

In the event of equipment or other issues, the meeting will be held Thursday, May 6 at the same time.

the semiautomatic mode which means that the trigger must be pulled for every shot. AR-15s are strictly semiautomatic.

An AR-15 rifle is not a “weapon of war.” There is not a military on the planet which uses AR-15 rifles because they are not suitable for combat.

Millions ofAR-15s are owned

by Americans because they are lightweight, easy to operate and have very little kick when fired. They are used for sporting purposes, target shooting, competition and home defense. Many single women have one for home

defense. The standard capacity magazine holds 20 rounds of .22 caliber ammunition.

It is legal for anyone with a clean record to purchase an AR15. A license is not required to purchase any firearm, i.e. rifle, handgun and shotgun. This is the 21st century. You are not going to be dragged out of your house and lynched for having a firearm.

When President Joe Biden begs Congress to ban AR-15s, he really means that he does not want you to have the means to exercise your God-given right to defend yourself and your loved

ones. This right is codified as the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and in Article I, Section 13 of the Constitution of Virginia.

Democrats want to abolish the Second Amendment and turn honest law-abiding citizens into criminals overnight.

Incidentally, a gun buy-back program is ludicrous because the government cannot buy-back something that it never owned.

Please consider that gun control has nothing to do with guns; it is people control. The liberals want to take your rights away.

MIKE WILSON Richmond

Comment Deadline Extended: Interstate 95 South Arthur Ashe Boulevard Ramp Widening (Exit 78) and Interstate 95 South Lane Reassignment City of Richmond Find out about the proposed Interstate 95 south (Exit 78) ramp widening at Arthur Ashe Boulevard (Route 161) and Interstate 95 south lane reassignment project from Bryan Park interchange to the Arthur Ashe Boulevard off ramp.

This project includes widening the ramp to create a dedicated exit lane and option lane on Interstate 95 south. The project will improve safety and operations in the area while creating a dedicated lane for Interstate 64 east to Interstate 95 south just south of the Bryan Park Interchange. For more information about this project, visit http://www.virginiadot.org/projects/richmond/richmond---i-95-south-bryan-parklane-restriping-and-ramp-improvements-at-arthur-ashe-boulevard.asp.

Project information is available at VDOT’s Richmond District Office located at 2430 Pine Forest Drive, South Chesterfield VA 23834-9002, 804-524-6000, 1800-663-4188, TTY/TTD 711. Please call ahead to make arrangements for personnel to share more information or answer your questions.

If your concerns cannot be satisfied, VDOT is willing to hold a public hearing.

You may request that a public hearing be held by sending a written request to Mr. Scott Chapman, Virginia Department of Transportation, 2430 Pine Forest Drive, South Chesterfield VA 23834-9002 or by email to scott.chapman@vdot.virginia.gov on or prior to April 30, 2021. If a request for a public hearing is received, notice of date, time and place of the hearing will be posted.

VDOT ensures nondiscrimination and equal employment in all programs and activities in accordance with Title VI and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. If you need special assistance for persons with disabilities or limited English proficiency, contact the project manager at the phone numbers listed above.

State Project: 0095-127-680, C501, P101, R201; UPC: 118581

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Sports Stories by Fred Jeter

VCU’s ‘Bones’ Hyland leaves to enter NBA draft; 3 new players arriving In college basketball, they come and they go. The exit. Hyland already has his own Wikipedia page. exit sign and the welcome mat are never far apart.

Hyland’s exciting play will be missed at VCU. About the same time last week that Virginia ComHowever, Coach Mike Rhoades is making sure there monwealth University sensation Nah’Shon “Bones” won’t be a scarcity of athletes wearing the black and Hyland signaled “goodbye” to the Rams, three touted gold in 2021-22. newcomers said “hello.”

Two high NCAA Division I transfers and a promisHyland, the reigning Atlantic-10 Conference Player ing freshman announced their decisions to bring their of the Year, announced he is trading in room, board jump shots to the Siegel Center. and tuition for a chance to play pro ball, preferably The first to commit was 6-foot-8 Jimmy Nichols in the NBA. from Providence College in Rhode Island. A native Nah’Shon The 2021 NBA draft will be held July 29 in Brooklyn, of Conway, S.C., Nichols averaged 6.1 points and Hyland N.Y. Projections vary wildly regarding Hyland’s NBA 2.4 rebounds, starting 18 of 3 games for the Big East stock, but a high second round pick seems to be the consensus. Conference Friars.

The wiry 6-foot-3 guard from Wilmington, Del., averaged Next to say he is headed to VCU was 6-foot-3 Marcus Tsoho19.5 points, 4.7 rebounds, 2.1 assists and 1.9 steals this past nis, who averaged 9.1 points and 3 rebounds last season for the season, spurring the Rams to a 19-7 record.

University of Washington. Tsohonis played an average of 26.8 Listed as a sophomore in 2020-21, Hyland would have had minutes per game for the Pacific 12 Conference Huskies. three more seasons of eligibility with the NCAA’s decision to Capping a whirlwind few days, VCU also received a comgive all players a “free year” because of the pandemic. mitment from incoming freshman Jayden Nunn. The 6-foot-4 It didn’t take long for the basketball world to take notice of the guard from Flint, Mich., initially committed to Iowa State

Jimmy Nichols

Marcus Tsohonis

Jayden Nunn

University, but changed his mind after a coaching change at the Big 12 school.

In addition to Hyland, the Rams will be missing 7-foot-1 Brendan Medley-Bacon who played sparingly this past season after transferring from Coppin State University. Medley-Bacon now will transfer to McNeese State University in Louisiana.

Still to be determined is whether Corey Douglas and Levi Stockard, listed as seniors this past season, will return for another season. Both would have the option based on the NCAA onetime pandemic regulations. They would not be counted against the NCAA’s limit of 13 scholarships.

The last Ram to be drafted into the NBA was Larry Sanders, who left VCU after his junior year in 2010. Sanders was the 15th overall pick by the Milwaukee Bucks.

The Sanders story goes to show you never know. Without the 6-foot-11 center, the Rams went to the NCAA Final Four the next season.

Makeover, new life for former Negro Leagues stadium Justin Fields

Caleb Farley

Christian Darrisaw

Ohio State QB Justin Fields to be snapped up in draft

Call it the reincarnation of Hinchliffe Stadium.

Abandoned and left vacant decades ago, the Negro Leagues ballpark in Paterson, N.J., is getting a makeover.

“It’s our field of dreams,” said New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy.

Restoring Hinchliffe is part of a $94 million project in downtown Paterson that will include a 315-car parking garage and six-story apartment building for senior citizens.

It is being financed by state and federal tax credits and grants. The scheduled completion is August 2022.

Groundbreaking ceremonies were held April 14 with former Joining in the ceremonial groundbreaking on April 14 for the $94 million renovation Negro Leaguers C.C. Sabathia, of Hinchliffe Stadium are, from left, Larry Doby Jr., son of the late trailblazing MLB Willie Randolph and Harold Reyn- hall of famer Larry Doby Sr. who grew up in Paterson, N.J.; former major leaguer Harold Reynolds; former Mets manager Omar Minaya; Paterson Mayor Andre olds handling a shovel.

Sayegh; and former major leaguers C.C. Sabathia and Willie Randolph.

Also involved with the groundbreaking was Larry Doby Jr., son of Larry Doby Sr., a Paterson native and the first Black athlete to play in the American League—with the Cleveland Indians in 1947).

Sabathia, a former New York Yankees pitcher with Hall of Fame credentials, suggested the nearby New York Yankees and New York Mets play an actual game at Hinchliffe once the project is complete. Paterson is about 29 miles from the Big Apple.

Constructed in 1932, Hinchliffe served as the home field for the New York Black Yankees and New York Cubans.

In 1933, Hinchliffe Stadium hosted the Colored Championship of the Nation, the equivalent of the Negro League World Series.

Among the legendary Black baseball stars who played at Hinchliffe were Doby, Judy Johnson, Martin Dihigo, Josh Gibson, Cool Papa Bell, Monte Irvin and Oscar Charleston.

In addition to baseball, Hinchliffe was used for boxing and auto racing and was the site of war bond rallies during World War II. Duke Ellington held one of his final concerts there.

Hinchliffe Stadium also was used for baseball and football

by Paterson’s two high schools, Eastside High School – Doby’s alma mater—and Central High School.

The stadium essentially was shut down in the 1990s with virtually no upkeep. Its walls, scarred with graffiti, were crumbling. Trees and weeds were growing up through cracks in the bleachers.

The “new Hinchliffe” will seat 7,800 patrons and be used for sports and other entertainment.

The old Negro Leagues ballparks are on the endangered species list.

Among the few remaining in some capacity are Hamtramck Stadium near Detroit; League Park in Cleveland; Rickwood Field in Birmingham, Ala.; J.P. Small Stadium in Jacksonville, Fla.; and Cooper Stadium in Columbus, Ohio.

The NFL’s growing squad of Black quarterbacks is sure to expand by at least one on Draft Day One, Thursday, April 29.

Former Ohio State University standout Justin Fields figures to have his name called in the first 10 picks.

Five of the first 10 draft selections are likely to be quarterbacks, starting with the Jacksonville Jaguars selecting Clemson University’s Trevor Lawrence No. 1 overall.

Other players likely to be picked fast are Brigham Young University’s Zach Wilson, the University of Alabama’s Mac Jones, North Dakota State University’s Trey Lance and Fields, the lone Black quarterback in the top tier.

A Heisman Trophy finalist, Fields is 6-foot-3, 228 pounds and ran a blistering 4.44 seconds in the 40-yard dash NFL draft 2021 at one of his two Pro Days When: Thursday, April 29 in Columbus. There was no through Saturday, May 1 NFL Combine this year.

Location: Hosted in Fields’ speed ranks third Cleveland but mostly virtual all time among quarterbacks.

Broadcast: Begins 8 p.m.

The only faster times reApril 29, 7 p.m. April 30 and corded by a quarterback noon May 1 on ESPN, ABC since 2000 were Michael and the NFL Network.

Vick (4.33 seconds) in 2001 Rounds: Seven and Robert Griffin III (4.41 Total picks: 259 seconds) in 2012.

The 22-year-old Fields has a bigger body to tote. Vick was listed at 6-foot, 210 pounds; Griffin at 6-foot-2, 213 pounds.

Fields is a rare blend of speed, size, powerful throwing arm and smart decision maker.

In three seasons at Ohio State—two as a starter—he passed for 4,701 yards and 67 touchdowns and ran for 1,133 yards and 19 touchdowns. He is foregoing his senior season to enter the NFL draft.

Fields led the Buckeyes to the Big 10 Conference title this past year. Ohio State then beat Clemson in the National Playoff semifinals, with Fields throwing for 383 yards and six touchdowns. Ohio State lost to Alabama in the final.

A native of Kennesaw, Ga., Fields played one season at the University of Georgia before transferring to Ohio State.

While the NFL was slow in accepting Black signal callers, the number has risen in recent years. Patrick Mahomes (Kansas City Chiefs), Lamar Jackson (Baltimore Ravens), Russell Wilson (Seattle Seahawks), Dak Prescott (Dallas Cowboys), Kyler Murray (Arizona Cardinals), Cam Newton (New England Patriots) and Teddy Bridgewater (Carolina Panthers) are among the standouts.

If any team appears to be on the runway and preTwo Virginia Tech athletes are likely to hear their names called pared for WNBA takeoff, it’s the Dallas Wings.

Talk about fueling up. Dallas had the first, in the NFL draft first round.

Hokies cornerback Caleb second and fifth overall picks in the April 15 Farley and offensive lineman draft held virtually.

With the top selection, the Wings chose 6-foot-5 Christian Darrisaw are proCharli Collier out of the University of Texas. jected as first rounders.

Collier, from Mont Belvieu, Texas, averaged Darrisaw was born in Petersburg and grew up in Upper 19 points and 11 rebounds and blocked 37 shots Charli Collier Awak Kuier Chelsea Dungee Marlboro, Md. He attended this past season for the Texas Longhorns.

While Collier is merely crossing her home state Ocean from Finland.

Fork Union Military Academy one season before joining the to join the Wings, the WNBA No. 2 overall pick, Kuier, at 19, is the youngest player to be drafted 6-foot-5 Awak Kuier, is traveling across the Atlantic this year and the first from Finland. Of South Sudanese Hokies.

Dallas Wings add height, talent to team in latest WNBA draft origin, she was born in Egypt and moved to Finland with her family when she was 2.

With the fifth pick, the Wings selected 5-foot-10 guard Chelsea Dungee out of the University of Arkansas.

Coming off an abbreviated 2020 season in which the team went 8-14, Dallas Wings Coach Vickie Johnson already had two of the league’s most promising young talents in 6-foot-4 Satou Sabally and 5-foot-8 Arike Ogunbowale.

Ogunbowale, 24, a former University of Notre Dame star, has led the WNBA in scoring the past two seasons. Sabally, 22, was the overall No. 2 draft pick a year ago out of the University of Oregon.

Former NFL player Leroy Keyes, who was among Va.’s greatest athletes, The 6-foot-3, 218-pound star scored 37 touchdowns for the Purdue BoilerLeroy Keyes, who was among the greatest dies at 74 makers with 3,757 all-purpose yards as rusher, receiver and kick returner. athletes in Virginia sports history, has died.

Mr. Keyes was 74 and died Thursday, April 15, in West Lafayette, Ind., surrounded by family.

A native of Newport News, Mr. Keyes starred in football, basketball and track and field at George Washington Carver High School in Newport News. On the football field, he scored 44 touchdowns for Carver, helping his school to the Virginia Interscholastic Association, or VIA, state title.

In basketball, he scored more than 2,000 points while helping Carver to two VIA state crowns.

Although he did not concentrate on track, he became the first athlete in state history to long jump more than 24 feet.

From Carver, Mr. Keyes went to Purdue University where he became a two-time consensus All-American as a versatile running back and pass receiver. In 1967, he was third in the Heisman Trophy voting. Then in 1968, he was Heisman runner-up behind O.J. Simpson.

Mr. Keyes was drafted by the Philadelphia Eagles in 1969 as the third overall selection behind Simpson and George Kunz.

Mr. Keyes began his NFL career as a running back-receiver but was switched to defensive safety. He collected eight interceptions for the Eagles before being traded to the Kansas City Chiefs for his final pro season in 1972.

Following his NFL retirement, Mr. Keyes worked 16 years as a desegregation specialist for the Philadelphia school district before returning to Purdue to serve as an assistant coach and administrative assistant.

Mr. Keyes was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame, the Rose Bowl Hall of Fame, the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame and the VIA Hall of Fame. He also was an inaugural member of the Purdue Intercollegiate Athletics Hall of Fame.

In a vote of fans, Mr. Keyes was selected to the “Mount Rushmore” of Purdue football, along with Drew Brees, Bob Griese and Rod Woodson.

Survivors include his wife, Monica, and four children, Raymond, Jacqueline, Courtland and Colin. Funeral arrangements have not been announced.

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Happenings Personality: Dr. Madeline G. McClenney Spotlight on president-founder of Exodus Foundation.org

Baptist minister, prison Richmond’s Community Wealth abolitionist and self-described Building Office to form the “mass clemencyist.”

Save Robert Green Coalition.

Dr. Madeline G. McClenney The coalition has grown to is a major force in criminal include a wide variety of local justice locally and nationally, faith and community groups, all and 2021 is looking to be her united behind a goal of seeing most ambitious year yet. a better approach to criminal The Richmond native and justice.

Charlotte, N.C., resident is “The use of (prisons) to solve the president and founder of social problems and mental the Exodus Foundation.org, health issues is a criminal act a faith-based charity founded against so-called criminals,” in 1999 to address what Dr. Dr. McClenney says. “I believe McClenney describes as “the that prisons must be replaced steady torturous slaughter of by community alternatives African-American men and and locked mental health women in the U.S. criminal retreats.” justice system.”

This guiding principle has “Our vision is to participate led success efforts on a national in creating a more sane, humane level. Dr. McClenney served and safe world where color in 2015 as the designer and and class discrimination cease architect of the “Times Up - Let to contaminate justice and its Me Go” campaign, the organiresources,” Dr. McClenney says, zation’s national effort to have “and punishment as the answer all nonviolent and overcharged to criminal activity is replaced by federal inmates released. mercy, atonement, reconciliation, Locally, the group is working restorative justice and secured to create a residential version of mental health treatment.” its Red Sea Crossings mentorCurrently, Dr. McClenney’s ing program to help released efforts are focused on the or- inmates with safe housing and ganization’s Century of Mass wraparound services.

Clemency campaign, which All of this advocacy doesn’t began this year and seeks to come easy, however. Dr. Mceducate the public about this Clenney is fully aware of the executive power and to push price tag needed to replicate and political leaders across the sustain their efforts in branches nation to use it. The goal: The envisioned across the country. release of all nonviolent and It’s a steep investment that Dr. overcharged individuals from McClenney says is needed and prisons and jails as quickly will require the public’s aid. as possible and with resources “If we fail, it will not be our for re-entry. failure alone,” Dr. McClenney The organization is petition- says. “We need our community ing Gov. Ralph S. Northam for to act now.” the release of Robert “Wize” Meet a leader in aboliGreen, who has been incarcer- tion advocacy and this week’s ated for two decades.

Personality, Dr. Madeline G. The Exodus Foundation. McClenney: org has partnered with the No. 1 volunteer position: Baptist Ministers’ President and0412 founder, Exodus1 VR DowntownConference Ph3 Ad FREEPRESS Half 02 707 HIGHREZ.pdf of Richmond & Vicinity and Foundation.org

Date and place of birth: 1966 in Richmond.

Where I live now: Charlotte, N.C. Education: Richmond Public Schools; bachelor’s in finance and master’s in divinity, Howard University; Ph.D. in religion, Duke University.

Occupation: Ordained Baptist minister, prison abolitionist and mass clemencyist.

Family: Parents, the late Frances and Earl McClenney Jr.; sister, Richmond Circuit Court Judge Jacqueline S. McClenney; and daughter, Ariyah McClenney Sadler.

Exodus Foundation.org is: A Christian, faith-based 501(c) (3) charity started in 1999 to address the steady torturous slaughter of African-American men and women in the U.S. criminal justice system.

Mission of Exodus Foundation.org:11:52 Locally, to stop the 4/12/21 AM flow of African-Americans to

prison. Nationally, to stop the flow of all Americans and immigrants to prison.

We are a movement to transform global public health and safety through highly trained mentors for people impacted by jails and prison systems.

Communities served

by Exodus Foundation. org: On the local level, our banner program is the Red Sea Crossings Mentoring and Scholarship Program, which serves formerly incarcerated African-American men and women. Nationally, we advocate for clemency for all Americans and immigrants who qualify.

Clemency is a fancy term for mercy. Clemency refers to the executive power of a governor or president of the United States to immediately release someone from prison, reduce their prison time or pardon them after having served prison time. This power does not require the assent of any other individual or governing body other than the executive in office.

Richmond and Exodus Foundation.org: In July 2020, Exodus Foundation.org reached out to the Baptist Ministers’ Conference of Richmond and Vicinity, led by Dr. Emanuel C. Harris, and to Dr. Patrick Graham, senior policy adviser of the City of Richmond’s Community Wealth Building Office, to form a coalition to advocate for the release of Robert “Wize” Green through the executive clemency power of Gov. Ralph S. Northam. Within a few months, we organized the Save Robert Green Coalition, which also now includes

Initiatives of Change, Family Safe Haven, Mecca Beez Inc, Faith Leaders Moving Forward and the Henrico Ministers’ Conference.

No. 1 goal or project of Exodus Foundation.org: Our vision is to participate in creating a more sane, humane and safe world where color and class discrimination cease to contaminate justice and its resources, and punishment as the answer to criminal activity is replaced by mercy, atonement, reconciliation, restorative justice and secured mental health treatment.

A prison abolitionist is: Someone who believes that prisons are a diabolical and unnecessary reinvention of chattel slavery.

The use of them to solve social problems and mental health issues is a criminal act against so-called criminals. I believe that prisons must be replaced by community alternatives and locked mental health retreats.

How to get assistance: Call (704) 947-9090 or email us at exodus@exodusfoundation. org. Currently, we make referrals and provide telecare for those in states outside of North Carolina.

How I start the day: I feel a sense of urgency each day. And then I pause to recall that with all the trauma we experience as people of color, women and people of faith, and the urgency of now to transform our experience in the world, at the end of the day all that matters is who loves you and who loves you back. We may not live to see all of our goals achieved, but we can treat the people closest to us and the strangers we meet as the priceless jewels they are.

That includes our enemies.

Three words that best describe me: Fearless, friendly and empathic.

Best late-night snack: Apples and almond butter.

How I unwind: Exercise, listen to jazz and read.

What I have learned about myself during the pandemic: I don’t want to do this work alone. I have an activist tribe.

I want a social tribe around me as well, for balance.

Something I love to do that most people would never imagine: Shoot hoops.

Quote that I am most inspired by is: “It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out where the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.

No, the credit belongs to the man/woman who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred with dust and sweat and blood ... who at best in the end knows the triumph of high achievement, and if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his/her place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat. — President Theodore Roosevelt.

At the top of my “to-do” list: Complete my first triathlon.

Best thing my parents ever taught me: Believe in Jesus of Nazareth and to serve humanity.

Persons who influenced me the most: My parents.

Book that influenced me the most: “The Autobiography of Malcolm X” as told to Alex Haley.

What I’m reading now: “Encyclopedia of Abolition.”

Next goal: Free Robert “Wize” Green.

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Happenings Area commencements will be mix of in-person and virtual celebrations Universities and colleges throughout the Richmond area have announced commencement plans designed to keep people safe while allowing for graduates and their families to celebrate.

Many ceremonies will be held virtually, with some in-person components in adherence to COVID-19 health and safety precautions and protocols.

Gov. Ralph S. Northam issued an executive order in March offering guidance to colleges and universities for spring ceremonies as COVID-19 vaccines were ramping up.

Under the order, indoor ceremonies are limited to no more than 500 people or 30 percent capacity, whichever is less. Outdoor ceremonies, however, can be held with up to either 5,000 people or 30 percent capacity, with social distancing and face masks required for all ceremonies.

“While graduation and commencement ceremonies will still be different than they were in the past, this is a tremendous step forward for all of our schools, our graduates and their families,” the governor stated at the time.

For many schools, the 2021 commencement ceremonies will be the first held in person since 2019. Following are commencement details released by the universities: Virginia Union University: Anthony Anderson, star and executive producer of the ABC sitcom “black-ish,” will deliver the 122nd commencement address at VUU at 10 a.m. Saturday, May 8. The ceremony will be held virtually on VUU Facebook and on YouTube VUU TV. After the universitywide ceremony, graduates will participate in virtual school-based celebrations with deans, faculty and classmates.

“Our students’ lives mirror many of the themes characterized in the show ‘black-ish.’ Anthony Anderson will bring the perfect message filled with honesty and humor as our students begin the next phase of their life,” said VUU President Hakim J. Lucas. “I am thrilled our graduates will have the opportunity to hear from him, especially after a year of COVID-19 and calls for social justice reform.”

Details: vuu.edu Virginia Commonwealth University: There will be a virtual universitywide commencement at 9 a.m. Saturday, May 15, with small, in-person ceremonies for various colleges, schools and departments. The virtual celebration will include a Zoom pre-party for students, featuring video clips and photos from graduates, speeches and music. A student speaker representing the Class of 2021 will be chosen from video auditions.

“It’s important that we recognize the accomplishments of the VCU Class of 2021,” said VCU President Michael Rao. “As leaders, problem-solvers and agents of change, they’ve combined what they learned in and out of the classroom and are among the very best the world has to offer.”

Details: commencement.vcu.edu.

Virginia State University: The university is recognizing graduates from 2021 and 2020 with two in-person ceremonies on Sunday, May 23, at Rogers Stadium on the Ettrick campus.

The ceremony for the Class of 2021 will be held at 9 a.m., while a 2 p.m. ceremony will be held for all Class of 2020 graduates.

The outdoor ceremonies will be held rain or shine, according to officials. Seating is limited, with each graduate receiving two tickets. Tickets and face masks are required for entry to the stadium.

The ceremony also will be live streamed on the VSU website.

Details: vsu.edu Reynolds Community College: Graduates will be recognized at two outdoor ceremonies on Saturday, May 15, in front of the Massey Library Technology Center on the Parham Road campus.

Students from the schools of business and health professions will participate in the 10 a.m. ceremony, while the 2 p.m. ceremony will be for students in the schools of humanities and social sciences and science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

Each graduate can register and bring two guests to their ceremony. Face masks are required, along with maintaining proper social distancing.

The ceremonies will take place outdoors rain or shine. Both ceremonies also will be streamed online.

Details: reynolds.edu.

University of Richmond: Commencement ceremonies will be held in person on Friday, May 7, Saturday, May 8, and Sunday, May 9, at different times and places around the campus.

For all ceremonies, graduates will be allotted two tickets for guests, who must be registered in advance. All ceremonies will be livestreamed and recorded.

The main ceremony for the Class of 2021 in the School of Arts & Sciences, the Jepson School of Leadership and the Robins School of Business will be held 9 a.m. Sunday, May 9, at Robins Stadium. Ed Bastian, the chief executive officer of Delta Air Lines, will speak.

The School of Professional and Continuing Studies will hold commencement ceremonies Saturday, May 8, at the Robins Center at 8 a.m. for Class of 2020 graduates and at 11:30 a.m. for Class of 2021 graduates. Student and alumni speakers will be featured.

The Law School ceremony will be 4 p.m. Saturday, May 8, at the Robins Stadium.

The MBA ceremony for the Class of 2020 and the Class of 2021 will be held 5:30 p.m. Friday, May 7, at the Robins Center.

Two graduates of the Class of 2020 will speak.

Details: commencement.richmond.edu

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Celebrating 150th anniversary of Jackson Ward

Hundreds of people gathered in Jackson Ward last Saturday for “Illuminating Legacies: Giles B. Jackson Day,” the kickoff of The JXN Project’s celebration commemorating the 150th anniversary of Jackson Ward. Known as the “Black Wall Street,” Jackson Ward was a thriving center for Black commerce, entertainment and life in Richmond following the Civil War. It is the first historically registered Black urban neighborhood in the nation and has a long and rich legacy that sisters Dr. Sesha Joi Moon and Enjoli Moon seek to elevate and celebrate as co-founders of The JXN Project.

Participants and sponsors, including LaDora Carter of Chesterfield, left, enjoyed guided tours of the Jackson Ward community, art activities, music, food and history about Jackson Ward and its residents shared by organizers, local officials and families.

A highlight of the celebration was the illumination of historical images throughout Jackson Ward, including one of the late Giles B. Jackson on the old Leigh Street Armory, now the home of the Black History Museum & Cultural Center of Virginia.

Mr. Jackson, who was born enslaved in 1853, was an attorney, newspaper publisher and civil rights activist who was thought to be the namesake of the community. Mr. Jackson was appointed chief of the Negro Division of the U.S. Employment Service in Washington during World War I, lobbied Congress to address interracial labor problems and the working conditions of Black people and organized an exhibit highlighting Black achievement at the Jamestown Tercentennial Exposition of 1907.

Mayor Levar M. Stoney declared April 17 Giles B. Jackson Day and a proclamation was presented to Mr. Jackson’s descendants Saturday by state Delegates Jeff M. Bourne of Richmond and Lamont Bagby of Henrico, members of the Virginia Legislative Black Caucus.

The JXN Project co-founders, sisters Dr. Sesha Joi Moon, front center in JXN Project T-shirt, and Enjoli Moon, behind her in JXN Project T-shirt, pause for a photo Saturday with descendants of Giles B. Jackson. Among them are Mr. Jackson’s great-great grandson, William Carter IV of Philadelphia, left, and his two daughters, Gabby Carter, 3, left, and Eva Carter, 5, the great-greatgreat-granddaughters of Mr. Jackson; and Mr. Jackson’s great-granddaughter and great-grandson, Dr. Patricia Carter Sluby of Temple Hills, Md., in pink, and her brother, Jerome Carter of Henrico County, in red.

101st birthday wishes Marjorie Wilson Saunders, who touched the lives of hundreds of students during her teaching career at Richmond’s Maggie L. Walker and George Wythe high schools, is serenaded with “Happy Birthday” by family, including her daughter, Marjory, friends and former students who helped celebrate her 101st birthday on April 15. The 1947 Virginia State University graduate was surprised first by a caravan of well-wishers who rolled by her North Side home in their cars with horns honking.

Then they parked and gathered to sing and reminisce about their high school days with a teacher they described as “very loving and caring.” Mrs. Saunders started as a secretary at Walker in 1956. She left to earn a master’s degree in business education from New York University. She returned to teach at Walker from 1958 to 1970 and at George Wythe from 1970 until her retirement in 1985. She was overwhelmed by the outpouring of love on her special day.

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pandemic in overturning other significant changes made to the church’s operations in the past 13 months since the spread of COVID-19 forced the church to suspend in-person services and move worship and congregational meetings online.

For example, Judge Marchant’s order voided a controversial congregational vote at a special June 2020 meeting that narrowly approved the recommendation of the church’s pastor, Dr. William E. Jackson Sr., to oust the church’s Trustee Board and terminate its Finance Committee.

Under the ruling, the ousted

A Richmond judge has temporarily blocked historic Fourth Baptist Church from taking any further steps to incorporate and reversed other actions approved during the pandemic.

In a triumph for the congregation’s opponents of incorporation and other changes, Richmond Circuit Court Judge W. Reilly Marchant imposed a temporary injunction on April 15 that, among other things. halted an impending vote on changing the 162-year-old church’s legal structure.

Judge Marchant cited the

Trustee Board members are reinstated and the Finance Committee once again will manage church income and spending.

Dr. Jackson had sought the ouster to keep paying the church’s small staff. The Finance Committee and trustees wanted to lay off the staff to save money following closure of the sanctuary at 2800 P St. Judge Marchant’s injunction bars further action until the congregation can again hold in-person meetings open to all members to consider and vote on actions that are not routine business.

He issued the temporary re-

straining order in a suit that six of the ousted trustees brought in the name of the church.

The legal action represents one of the most contentious events in the history of Fourth Baptist, which attributes its founding to 23 enslaved people in 1859, before the start of the Civil War. The church last experienced such upheaval in the late 1990s when its pastor and former Richmond mayor, the late Dr. Leonidas B. Young II, pleaded guilty to influence-peddling in his political office and defrauding an elderly church member.

Dr. Young was forced out as

Faith leaders react to Chauvin verdict Farhana Khera, executive director, Muslim Advocates: “The whole world saw George Floyd beg for breath, for his mother and finally for mercy before dying as Derek Chauvin’s knee was on his neck. The jury’s guilty verdict is a long-overdue measure of justice for the Floyd family. … Further, we must all take drastic, immediate action to overhaul the law enforcement and justice systems that have allowed this violence to continue for so long.”

The Rev. Samuel Rodriguez, president, National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference: “Today’s decision has demonstrated yet again how far we have to go on our long march toward justice. The wounds of our past continue to bleed into our present reality and the tensions in American life — revealed by this terrible tragedy — have reminded us that there will probably be another George Floyd and another Derek Chauvin. The remedy — politically and judicially speaking — is the blind eye of justice guiding our legislators and judges, but the remedy for the soul of America is empathy, understanding and love of one’s neighbor whatever the color of their skin.”

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As the Minneapolis judge thanked jurors for their “heavy-duty jury service” on Tuesday, reactions already had begun to the three guilty verdicts in the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin in the May 25 death of George Floyd.

Religious leaders and faith-related organizations reacted swiftly to the verdict.

Here’s a sampling: Bishop T.D. Jakes, author and Dallas megachurch pastor: “While we are delighted by the jury’s verdict, we are mindful that there’s still a lot of work ahead of us. Our criminal justice system remains deeply flawed. Black people disproportionately remain victims of police brutality and are more likely to be pulled over or cited for negligible or phantom traffic violations. Let us not relent in our efforts to press our local, state and federal elected officials for police reform, particularly as it relates to qualified immunity, bias training, de-escalation training and uniform hiring standards.

“There is no real winner because we still have a divided church,” said Ms. Fitzgerald, who helped organize the shared effort to cover the legal costs of the suit. “I don’t know how we will bring the congregation back together. This is not what the Lord called us to do, to fight among each other. We have a lot of work to do to restore our church.”

Filed in January, the suit was brought by seven people, including six of the trustees who were removed, Roosevelt Walker, Joseph C. Flannigan, Devandas Kendrick, Mastine Braswell, James Hewlett and Linda Hawkins, the reinstated chair of the Finance Committee, and the church’s reinstated treasurer, Linda Reynolds.

Attorney and church member John L. Taylor III initially represented the plaintiffs. To avoid creating a conflict for Mr. Taylor, the plaintiffs hired William F. Seymour IV to argue the case.

Dr. Jackson was a named defendant, along with Gerard A. Dabney, chairman of the Deacon Board, and six of the Deacon Board’s active members. The defendants used church funds to pay for their legal defense after receiving approval at an online congregational meeting.

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Rabbi Jonah Dov Pesner, director, Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism: “The racist systems that have endured for more than 400 years perpetuate the brutalization of people of color, including, all too often, by law enforcement. The heartbreaking fact is no verdict or sentence can bring back George Floyd to the loving arms of his family, nor all those who are killed by police. What today’s verdict can and must do is affirm that those who take human life callously must be held accountable for their actions.”

U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock, pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church, Atlanta: “First and foremost, I’m thinking about George Floyd’s children and his family, and I’m thankful that they received something that approaches justice today after the trauma they’ve endured — one we’ve seen visited upon Black people and communities of color time and time again, and that never becomes less painful. As a voice for Georgians in the Senate, and as a Black man, I hope today’s verdict is the beginning of a turning point in our country where people who have seen this trauma over and over again will know it is possible to have equal protection under the law.”

pastor and took some members with him to form a new church, New Kingdom Christian Ministries.

Judge Marchant, treading carefully to avoid breaching the church-state divide, sided with the plaintiffs’ arguments that since the start of the pandemic, Dr. Jackson and the deacon board have held online congregational meetings that the church’s constitution did not provide for.

The plaintiffs also argued that the meetings were held without proper notice to all church members and without ensuring all members could participate as the constitution requires.

The injunction was issued four days before a scheduled congregational meeting whose agenda, according to Dr. Jackson, was to include a final vote on incorporation and on a proposed new constitution and bylaws. The judge’s order prevents such a vote.

Longtime church member Shelia Fitzgerald called the judge’s decision a bittersweet victory for those, like her, who believe the main justification for incorporating and for changing the church’s structure is to grant the pastor more authority to run operations and to reduce congregational oversight.

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Former WNBA player new part-owner of the Atlanta Dream Free Press wire report

ATLANTA Former Atlanta Dream guard Renee Montgomery made history recently as part of a three-member investor group that was approved to purchase the team.

The ownership change in February follows pressure on former U.S. Sen. Kelly Loeffler, a Republican who angered WNBA players with her opposition to the league’s racial justice initiatives, to sell her share of the Dream.

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Real estate investor Larry Gottesdiener was approved as majority owner of the team. The investor group also includes Montgomery and Suzanne Abair, president of Northland Investment Corp. in Massachusetts, the firm Gottesdiener founded.

Montgomery becomes the first former player to become both an owner and executive of a WNBA franchise. She said she would play an active role with Abair in the leadership of the team.

Montgomery said her new role can set a tone.

“Breaking barriers for minorities and women by being the first former WNBA player to have both a stake in ownership and a leadership role with the team is an opportunity that I take very seriously,” Montgomery said.

Montgomery is in her first season as a studio analyst on Atlanta Hawks broadcasts for Fox Sports Southeast. She said she plans to continue in that role.

Montgomery said she first began considering her role in an ownership group after Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James tweeted about the possibility of being part of such a group.

“That tweet prompted my mind,” Montgomery said, adding she “started to figure out if that could become a real possibility.”

She said she also was motivated by James’ role in the “More Than a Vote” campaign that worked to increase voter turnout and reduce voter suppression in the Black community.

James applauded Montgomery’s ownership role by posting on Twitter: “So proud of this Queen. This is everything we are about!”

Montgomery sat out the 2020 season to focus on social justice issues and recently announced her retirement from the league after 11 seasons and two WNBA championships.

“I think it’s great that Renee has stepped up after she retired from playing the game to continue having an impact on the game,” WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert said Feb. 26.

“I’ve seen her strong work ethic. I’ve seen her advocacy and knowledge of the game and I’m sure that’s going to be an asset to Larry and Suzanne and a huge benefit to the team.”

The 34-year-old Montgomery won WNBA titles with the Minnesota Lynx in 2015 and 2017.

She was an All-Star with the Connecticut Sun in 2011, when she set a career high with her average of 14.6 points per game. She was the WNBA’s Sixth Woman of the Year in 2012.

The approval by the WNBA and NBA Board of Governors was expected and unanimous.

It means co-owner Mary Brock also sold her share of the team.

Though his business is based in Newton, Mass., Gottesdiener said the team will remain in Atlanta.

“This is an Atlanta asset,” Gottesdiener said.

“The Dream isn’t going anywhere.”

Players around the league had called for former Sen. Loeffler to sell her 49 percent stake in the Dream after she wrote a letter to Engelbert during the summer objecting to the league’s advocacy for racial justice and the Black Lives Matter movement.

Dream players wore “Vote Warnock” T-shirts in support of then Democratic candidate U.S. Senate candidate Rev. Raphael Warnock, who defeated Loeffler in Georgia’s Senate runoff.

Sen. Warnock’s victory, along with Sen. Jon Ossoff’s win in Georgia’s other runoff, handed control of the U.S. Senate to Democrats.

The high-profile campaigning against Loeffler by players on a team she owned was credited with boosting Sen. Warnock’s candidacy.

“I want to take this time to thank the WNBA players, particularly the Dream players,” Engelbert said at the time. “They were put in a difficult position. I was proud of the way they handled the situation. They stood for their values, they stood for professionalism. They served as role models with their advocacy and continue to do that.”

Gottesdiener said the Dream players captured his attention and respect.

“The last year, the players of the Dream refused to just shut up and dribble,” Gottesdiener said.

“They found their collective voice and the world listened. We were inspired by these brave women who advocated sports and activism in the midst of the pandemic and we want to celebrate and honor them. We’re particularly proud to be stewards of this team in this city at this time.”

PUBLIC NOTICE CITY OF RICHMOND 2021-2025 CONSOLIDATED PLAN & 2021-22 ANNUAL ACTION PLAN In accordance with HUD citizen participation requirements, a 30-day public comment period for the 2021-2025 Consolidated Plan and the proposed 2021-22 Annual Action Plan (City FY 2022) will begin on April 22, 2021, and will expire on May 31, 2021. By this notice the City of Richmond announces the availability of the 1st \HDU RI WKH ¿YH \HDU Consolidated Plan, also known as the proposed 2021-22 Annual Action Plan, is ready for public review and comment.

Notice is also hereby given that the Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) will hold a video conference public hearing on Thursday May 6, 2021 at 6:00pm. Due to COVID-19 social distancing requirements, HCD cannot hold an in-person public hearing. To participate in the video conference, please contact Daytesha Robinson by 4:00 PM on May 6, 2021 daytesha.robinson@richmondgov.com or at 804-646-1766.

Notice is also given that on Monday, June 14, 2021 at 6:00 p.m. in City Council Chambers, the Richmond City Council will hold a public hearing on the City’s 2021-2025 Consolidated Plan and proposed 2021-22 Annual Action Plan budget for the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG), HOME Investment Partnership (HOME), Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG), and Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS (HOPWA) programs. The HOPWA funds are allocated to the City to administer for the Richmond-Petersburg MSA. The Plan will serve as a comprehensive planning document discussing Richmond’s community development and housing needs. The needs emphasize the provision of decent affordable housing, a suitable living environment, assisting and preventing homelessness, assisting special needs community, and the expansion of economic opportunities, particularly for low- and moderate-income persons.

The funds below are federal entitlement dollars allocated to the City through the U. S. Department of Housing & 8UEDQ 'HYHORSPHQW +8' WR LPSOHPHQW WKH KRXVLQJ DQG FRPPXQLW\ GHYHORSPHQW SULRULWLHV DQG DFWLYLWLHV LGHQWL¿HG LQ WKH ¿YH \HDU &RQVROLGDWHG 3ODQ ZKLFK LV FRQVLVWHQW ZLWK &LW\¶V )RFXV $UHD 3ULRULWLHV CDBG Entitlement Grant (includes prior year surplus & program income): HOME Entitlement Grant (includes program income): ESG Entitlement Grant: HOPWA Regional Entitlement Grant: Total Funds Available for PY 2021

$4,905,969 $1,636,128 $389,042 $1,500,245 $8,431,384

The following projects have been recommended for CDBG, HOME, ESG, and HOPWA allocations to undertake the following activities to preserve and revitalize the City’s neighborhoods and further the City’s economic growth for the 2021-22 Annual Action Plan: CDBG Projects

Provider

Project Description

AMOUNT

Single Family Development

$ 200,000

Housing & Neighborhood Preservation Blackwell HOPE VI - SCDHC

SCDHC

Exterior Homes Repairs

Habitat

Homeowner Repair

$ 159,281

Citywide Critical Home Repair

PH

Homeowner Repair

$ 609,281

Citywide Owner Occupied Home Repair

PH

Homeowner Repair

$ 164,000

Keystone Program City-wide DPA

H.O.M.E.

Homeowner Assistance

$ 455,000

Pathways to Independence - DPA

SCDHC

Homeowner Assistance

$ 50,000

Rebuilding Together Year Round

Rebuilding Together

Homeowner Repair

$ 259,281

Section 108 2012 Loan Repayment

Finance

Loan Repayment

$ 981,126

The Hollands

SCDHC

Single Family Development

Sub-Total - Housing & Neigh Pres.

Economic Development Metropolitan Business League Program

MBL

Economic Development

$

80,000

Neighborhood Economic Development

HCD

ED Technical Assistance

$

100,000

$

180,000

Sub-Total - Economic Dev. Planning & Administration Block Grant & Finance Administration

HCD

Administration

$

400,000

Fair Housing Support and Outreach

HOME

Administration

$

40,000

Historic Review

DPDR

Administration

$

48,000

Neighborhood Planning

HCD

Administration

$

295,000

Southside Plaza Area Plan

DPDR

Planning

$ 100,000

Sub-Total - Planning & Admin.

NSU names new football coach

Coach Odums

Dawson Odums is the new head football coach at Norfolk State University.

Officials announced his selection at a news conference Wednesday.

Coach Odums succeeds Latrell Scott, who left NSU for a coaching position at East Carolina University. An alumnus of North Carolina Central University, Coach Odums has served as head football coach at Southern University in Louisiana, where his teams earned a 58-31 record from 2012 to 2019 and won the Southwestern Athletic Conference, or SWAC, title in 2013.

It didn’t take teenager Trinity Rodman long to prove she could play with the pros.

Rodman, the daughter of former NBA star Dennis Rodman and who turns 19 on May 20, scored a goal on her very first touch of the ball in a National Women’s Soccer League game April 10 in Cary, N.C. Entering the season opener as a substitute for the Washington Spirit, Rodman scored in the 60th minute of the game on an assist from Ashley Sanchez.

The Spirit went on to lose

the game to the North Carolina Courage, 3-2.

In January, Rodman became the youngest player ever drafted by a NWSL team. She was picked No. 2 overall.

Rodman enrolled as a freshman at Washington State University last fall, but decided to go pro when the college season was postponed until spring because of the pandemic.

The 5-foot-10 Newport Beach, Calif., native played on the U-17 and U-20 United States National teams.

$883,000

Public Services Cyber Security Workforce Housing Code Enforcement Counseling Housing Information and Counseling

OCWB

Job Training

$

95,000

RDSS

Housing Counseling & Assistance

$

90,000

HOME

Housing Counseling

$

200,000

Lead Safe and Healthy Homes Outreach Support

RCHD

Health Services

$

120,000

Pathways to Independence - PS

SCDHC

Housing Counseling

$

30,000

Residential Support for Homeless Families

RBHA

Homeless Services

$

130,000

Sub-Total - Public Services

$

665,000

TOTAL CDBG BUDGET

$4,905,969

HOME Projects

Rodman scores in first NWSL game

Provider

Project Description

Blackwell HOPE VI - SCDHC

SCDHC

Single Family Construction

$

250,000

Citywide Owner Occupied Home Repair

PH

Homeowner Repair

$

436,128

Community Housing Empowerment NiB DPA

H.O.M.E.

Homeowner Assistance

$

340,000

Constructing Safe, Affordable Housing

Habitat

Single Family Construction

$

270,000

HOME Program Administration

HCD

Administration

$

140,000

The Hollands

SCDHC

Single Family Construction

$

200,000

TOTAL HOME BUDGET

804.358.5543

AVAILABLE Downtown Richmond first floor office suite 5th and Franklin Streets 422 East Franklin Street Richmond, Virginia 23219

Bedros Bandazian

Associate Broker, Chairman

Raffi Bandazian

Principal Broker, GRI

AMOUNT

$1,636,128

Emergency Solutions Grant

Provider

Project Description

AMOUNT

Hillard Housing/Building Neighbors

HFF

Homeless Services

$

60,000

ESG Program & Finance Administration

HCD

Administration

$

21,000

Shelter & Case Management

CARITAS

Homeless Services

$

55,000

Homeward Community Information System

Homeward

Data Collection

$ 8,500

Rapid Re-housing

YWCA

Homeless Services

$

65,000

Rapid Re-housing & Emergency Shelter

HomeAgain

Homeless Services

$

179,542

$

389,042

TOTAL ESG BUDGET

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$ 300,000 $3,177,969

Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS

Provider

Project Description

AMOUNT

Housing Assistance Program

Serenity

Short Term Financial Assistance

$

154,000

HOPWA CIS

Homeward

Data Management

$

20,000

HOPWA Greater Richmond

CCC

Short/Long Term Financial Assistance

$

895,000

HOPWA Program & Finance Admin

HCD

Administration

$

36,000

Stratford House

VSH

Residential Facility

$

395,245

TOTAL HOPWA BUDGET

$ 1,500,245

Copies of the 2021-2025 Consolidated Plan and proposed 2021-22 Annual Action Plan are available for public review online on the HCD’s website located at www.richmondgov.com. Citizens can also request a hard copy or electronic copy via e-mail or US Mail. To request a copy, contact Emily DeHoog at Emily.DeHoog@richmondgov.com or by mail at the City Department of Housing & Community Development, 1500 E Main Street, Suite 300, Richmond VA 232193571. The City of Richmond does not discriminate on the basis of disability status in the admission of, or access to, or treatment in its federally assisted programs or activities. Virginia Relay Center - TDD Users - 1-800-828-1120.

Citizens and interested persons are invited to give their views regarding the use of CDBG, HOME, ESG and HOPWA funds for the Five-Year Consolidated Plan and proposed Annual Action Plan. The City will arrange for reasonable accommodations for non-English speaking persons or those persons with visual, hearing, or mobility impairments ZKHQ QRWL¿HG ZLWKLQ ¿YH EXVLQHVV GD\V RI WKH FORVH RI WKH SXEOLF FRPPHQW SHULRG 6XEPLW FRPPHQWV DQG YLHZV in writing to: Emily DeHoog, Project Development Manager, Housing and Community Development, 1500 E. Main Street, Suite 300, Richmond, VA 23219-3571 or by e-mail to Emily.Dehogg@richmondgov.com. Comments may also be submitted by voicemail (804) 646-4078.

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on or before the 10th day of June, 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

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 STEVEN LESTER, Plaintiff v.

ALICE HANNA, Defendant.

Case No.: CL21001117-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

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

It is ORDERED that the defendant, who is a nonresident, appear here on or before the 24th day of May, 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 VSB# 27724 Law Office of Dorothy M. Eure, P.C. 8460 Mount Eagle Road Ashland, VA 23005 (804) 798-9667

without any cohabitation and without interruption for a period exceeding twelve months.

It is ORDERED that the defendant, whose whereabouts are unknown, appear here on or before the 7th day of May, 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

Jr. (Father) of Leiliana Lynnae Felix child, DOB 9/22/2019. “RPR” means all rights and responsibilities remaining with parent after transfer of legal custody or guardianship of the person, including but not limited to rights of: visitation; adoption consent; determination of religious affiliation; and responsibility for support.

It is ORDERED that the defendants Alberto Felix, Jr., (Father) to appear at the above-named Court and protect his/her interest on or before 6/11/2021, at 10:20 AM, Courtroom #1.

Ordinance No. 2021-101 To rezone the property known as 103 East 2nd Street from the B-7 MixedUse Business District to the B-4 Central Business District, and the properties known as 104 East 2nd Street, 101 Stockton Street, and 121 Stockton Street from the M-2 Heavy Industrial District to the B-4 Central Business District. The properties are situated in an M-2 Heavy Industrial District and B-7 MixedUse Business District.

The City of Richmond’s Master Plan designates a future land use category for the subject property as Destination Mixed-Use. Primary uses are retail/ office/personal service, multi-family residential, cultural and open space.

No residential density is specified for this land use designation.

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE CITY OF RICHMOND LISA YVONNE (JENKINS) STEWART, Plaintiff v.

HAROLD RICARDO STEWART, Defendant Case No.: CL21-1403-7 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to: Obtain a divorce a vinculo matrimonii or from the Bonds of Matrimony.

It appearing from an affidavit that diligence has been used without effect, by or on the behalf of the plaintiff to ascertain in what county or city defendant is and the last known address of the Defendant is as follows: L.K/A. 51 Henry St. Roosevelt, NY 11575.

It is ORDERED that Harold Ricardo Stewart appear at the above-named court and protect his/her interests on or before June 7, 2021.

An Extract, Teste: EDWARD F. JEWETT, Clerk

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER JOHN ASHLOCK, Plaintiff v.

LINDA ASHLOCK, Defendant.

Case No.: CL21001482-00 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 2nd day of June, 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 CHARLENE HARRIS, Plaintiff v.

BEN HARRIS, Defendant.

Case No.: CL21001481-00 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 2nd day of June, 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 BOBBIE SALAS, Plaintiff v.

VINCENT SALAS, Defendant.

Case No.: CL21001406-00 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 1st day of June, 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 IVI MOLIN, Plaintiff v.

BAYRON GARCIA VASQUEZ, Defendant.

Case No.: CL21001515-00 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 10th day of June, 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 CHADWICK FOWLER, Plaintiff v.

KRISTIN FOWLER, Defendant.

Case No.: CL20003601-00 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

E0100227029 City of Richmond v. Sallie C. Day, et. al.

CL20-609 4400 Castlewood Road S0090301017 City of Richmond v.

Elizabeth C. Edwards, et. al.

CL20-2619 1604 Columbia Street S0071377003 City of Richmond v. Stella Clark, et. al.

CL20-3075 3213 Delaware Avenue N0001158023 City of Richmond v. Elijah W. Jones, Jr., et. al.

CL20-2663 3214 Dill Avenue N0001078006 City of Richmond v.

Josephine W. Lewis, et. al.

CL20-3077 1809 Fairfax Avenue S0000456017 City of Richmond v. Each One Counts etc., LLC, et. al.

CL20-4356 3518 Florida Avenue N0001371002 City of Richmond v. Tessie M. Robinson, et. al.

CL20-2964 3423 Frank Road S0080854029 City of Richmond v. Richard Woolridge, et. al.

CL20-484 2803 West Grace Street Rear W0001291061 City of Richmond v. Red Hill Investments, LC, et. al.

CL20-3857 3613 Greenbay Road C0090637026 City of Richmond v. Elmer Reid Van Cleave, et. al.

CL20-3336 2610 Hopkins Road C0090528064 City of Richmond v.

Omicron Group, LLC, et. al.

CL20-2104 2101 Ingram Avenue S0000763011 City of Richmond v. George S. A. Friday, et. al.

CL20-2106 1601 Lamb Avenue N0000290014 City of Richmond v. Thomas J. Johnson, et. al.

CL20-1934 2400 Lamberts Avenue S0080815031 City of Richmond v. Jafar F. Abdul Rahman, et. al.

CL20-2661 3011 Laurelbrook Drive C0090176009 City of Richmond v.

Denease Kidd Burke, et. al.

CL20-2666 507 Lincoln Avenue N0180455004 City of Richmond v. Irene J. Lundy, et. al.

CL20-2972 2317 M Street E0000293004 City of Richmond v. William McKinley Perry, et. al.

CL20-2621 4001 McKay Avenue Rear C0090424022 City of Richmond v. T. C. Houliares, et. al.

CL20-2163 1706 South Meadow Street W0000875013 City of Richmond v.

Antoinette L. Bland, et. al.

CL20-2370 3609 Midlothian Turnpike S0002466031 City of Richmond v. Henry T. Carter, et. al.

CL20-5338 3405 Mike Road S0080820025 City of Richmond v. Sharon Jones, et. al.

CL20-2373 505 Milton Street N0001365026 City of Richmond v. Owen H. Coleman, Jr., et. al.

CL20-3017 1432 Minefee Street S0071284002 City of Richmond v. Glenda P. Williams Tunstall, et. al.

CL20-3288 201 Minor Street 201 N0000375001 City of Richmond v.

Jacqueline Lewis Lucas, et. al.

CL19-4155 1600 Monteiro Street N0000290012 City of Richmond v. Thomas Jasper Johnson, et. al.

CL20-1933 2306 North Avenue N0000488005 City of Richmond v. Sandra M. Jones, et. al.

CL20-3787 3202 North Avenue N0001132010 City of Richmond v. Dana E. Payne, et. al.

CL20-3979 2410 Old Dominion Street S0000567007 City of Richmond v. Martha Gaines, et. al.

CL20-2945 2110 Orlando Drive C0090420046 City of Richmond v. Kenneth W. Taylor, et. al.

CL20-2094 2130 Orlando Drive C0090420048 City of Richmond v. Kenneth W. Taylor, et. al.

CL20-2093 3402 P Street E0000964025 City of Richmond v. The LMT Land Trust, et. al.

CL20-1681 2605 Phaup Street E0120291011 City of Richmond v. Carolyn Laverne Brown, et. al.

CL20-3014 1537 Rogers Street E0000930043 City of Richmond v. James B. Harris, et, al.

CL20-2618 1910 Rose Avenue N0000370003 City of Richmond v. Naomi A. Hall, et, al.

CL20-2278 417 Smith Street N0000241035 City of Richmond v. Gloria Constello Sibley, et. al.

CL20-2253 3505 Stockton Street S0002601011 City of Richmond v. Flora M. Warrick, et, al.

CL20-2250 2723 Tate Street E0120426015

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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, May 3, 2021 at 1:30 p.m. and the Council of the City of Richmond has scheduled a public hearing on Monday, May 10, 2021 at 6:00 p.m. to consider the following ordinances: Ordinance No. 2021-096 To authorize the special use of the property known as 1301 North Arthur Ashe Boulevard for the purpose of a drive-in theater, upon certain terms and conditions.

The property is situated in a TOD-1 Transit-Oriented Nodal District. The City of Richmond’s Master Plan designates a future land use category for the subject property as Destination Mixed-Use. Primary uses are retail/ office/personal service, multi-family residential, cultural and open space.

Ordinance No. 2021-097 To authorize the special use of the property known as 1500 North Lombardy for the purpose of four wall signs, upon certain terms and conditions.

The property is situated in an I Institutional District.

The City of Richmond’s Master Plan designates a future land use category for the subject property as Institutional. Primary uses are institutional, cultural, government and open space.

Ordinance No. 2021-098 To authorize the special use of the property known as 2601 Edgewood Avenue for the purpose of two single-family detached dwellings, upon certain terms and conditions. The subject property is located in the R‑5 Single‑Family Residential zoning 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 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. 2021-099 To authorize the special use of the property known as 3008 Garland Avenue for the purpose of a singlefamily detached dwelling and a two-family detached dwelling, 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 Residential land use for this property. Primary uses include singlefamily houses, accessory dwelling units, and open space. Secondary uses include duplexes and small multi-family buildings (typically 3-10 units), institutional, and cultural. The density of the proposed development is approximately 16 units per acre.

Ordinance No. 2021-100 To authorize the special use of the property known as 3135 West Franklin Street for the purpose of a single-family detached dwelling and a two-family detached dwelling, 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 this property as Neighborhood Mixed-Use. Primary Uses: Single-family houses, accessory dwelling units, duplexes, small multifamily 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 18 units per acre.

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Ordinance No. 2021-102 To rezone the properties known as 300 Oliver Hill Way and 400 Oliver Hill Way from the M-1 Light Industrial District to the TOD-1 TransitOriented Nodal District, and the property known as 510 Oliver Hill Way from the M-2 Heavy Industrial District to the TOD-1 Transit-Oriented Nodal District. The City’s Richmond 300 Master Plan designates the properties as Destination Mixed Use. Primary Uses: Retail/office/personal service, multi-family residential, cultural, and open space. Secondary Uses: Institutional and government.

Ordinance No. 2021-103 To rezone the property known as 711 Dawn Street from the M-1 Light Industrial District to the B-7 Mixed Use Business D i s t r i c t . T h e C i t y ’s Richmond 300 Master Plan designates a future land use for the subject property as Industrial Mixed Use. Primary Uses: Retail/office/personal service, multi-family residential, cultural, and open space. Secondary Uses: Institutional and government.

The meetings will be held through electronic communication means pursuant to and in compliance with Ordinance No. 2020-093, adopted April 9, 2020, as most recently amended by Ordinance No. 2020-232, adopted December 14, 2020. The meetings will be open to participation through electronic communication means by the public and closed to in-person participation by the public. Less than a quorum of Richmond City Planning Commission members and Richmond City Council will assemble in City Hall, located at 900 East Broad Street, Richmond, Virginia, and most members and other staff will participate by teleconference/ videoconference via Microsoft Teams.

The meetings will be streamed live online at the following web address: https://richmondva. legistar.com/Calendar. a s p x . To w a t c h a meeting’s live stream at the web address provided, find and click the link that reads, “In Progress” in the farthest right hand column entitled, “Video”.

The agenda for the Richmond City Council meeting is accessible through the City’s legislative website at the following web address: https://richmondva. legistar.com/Calendar. aspx. To view the agenda at the web address provided, find and click the link that reads, “Agenda” associated with the May 10, 2021 Richmond City Council Formal meeting listed in the calendar.

Interested citizens who wish to speak at the Richmond City Council meeting will be given an opportunity to do so by following the “Formal Meeting Citizen Participation Instructions” attached to the May 10, 2021 Richmond City Council Formal meeting agenda.

Citizens are encouraged to provide their comments in writing to CityClerksOffice@ richmondgov.com in lieu of calling in. The person responsible for receiving comments in writing is Candice D. Reid, City Clerk. All comments received prior to 10:00 a.m. on Monday, May 10, 2021, will be provided to Council members prior to the meeting and will be included in the record of the meeting.

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-city-clerk.

Candice D. Reid City Clerk

Divorce

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER MARQUITA ARCHIE, Plaintiff v.

LAVERNE ADAMS II, Defendant.

Case No.: CL21001376-00 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 1st day of June, 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 FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER JENNIFER DODD, Plaintiff v.

JEFFERSON ROCK, Defendant.

Case No.: CL21001259-00 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 24th day of May, 2021 at 9:00 AM, and protect his interests.

A Copy, Teste:

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER ROBIN BAILEY-ELLISON, Plaintiff v.

ANTHONY ELLISON, Defendant.

Case No.: CL21001146-00 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 19th day of May, 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 JUVENILE AND DOMESTIC RELATIONS DISTRICT COURT OF HENRICO COUNTY Commonwealth of Virginia, in re CHAVARRIA GRIJALVA, DULCE N ROSA CHAVARRIA GRIJALVA v.

MARVIN ROSIL Case No. JJ107933-01-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to: Custody Special Immigrations.

It is ORDERED that the defendant Marvin Rosil appear at the above-named Court and protect his or her interests on or before 05/20/2021, at 9:00 AM.

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER HEIDI BOYETTE, Plaintiff v.

MARK BOYETTE, Defendant.

Case No.: CL21001041-00 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

VIRGINIA: IN THE JUVENILE AND DOMESTIC RELATIONS DISTRICT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND Commonwealth of Virginia, in re LEILIANA LYNNAE FELIX rdss v.

ALBERTO FELIX, JR. Case No. J-97950-05 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to: Terminate the residual parental rights (“RPR”) Alberto Felix,

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, May 19, 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.

915 East 15th Street S0000393007 City of Richmond v. Charles Jefferson, Jr., et. al.

CL20-3076 118 East 18th Street S0000236024 City of Richmond v.

Matthew Perkins, Jr. et. al.

CL20-2610 5 East 19th Street S0000294013 City of Richmond v. 4J Properties, LLC, et. al.

CL20-3989 110 East 21st Street S0000353035 City of Richmond v. Delia Wiley, et. al.

CL20-3306 1621 North 22nd Street E0000859023 City of Richmond v.

Elizabeth Dortch, et. al.

CL20-5072 1308 North 26th Street E0000620012 City of Richmond v. John H. Taylor, Jr., et. al.

CL20-3991 1005 North 27th Street E0000476035 City of Richmond v.

Jonathan Bullock, et. al.

CL20-138 207 East 37th Street S0042766020 City of Richmond v. William G. Davis, et. al.

CL20-3307 3311 Barton Avenue N0001357017 City of Richmond v. Brenda M. Dunlap, et. al.

CL20-2083 2502 Berwyn Street S0080381014 City of Richmond v. Edna P. Queen, et. al.

CL20-2967 2504 Berwyn Street S0080381013 City of Richmond v. Edna P. Queen, et.al.

CL20-3036 5401 Blue Ridge Avenue E0100230001 City of Richmond v. Evelyn Smith, et. al.

CL20-2634 2821 Burfoot Street S0001123028 City of Richmond v. BG Property Soluctions, LLC, et.al.

CL20-4116 5701 Campbell Avenue E0100227028 City of Richmond v.

Greanleafe Associates, LLC, et. al.

CL20-2091 5705 Campbell Avenue E0100227035 City of Richmond v.

Greanleafe Associates, LLC, et. al.

CL20-2091 5709 Campbell Avenue E0100227036 City of Richmond v.

Greanleafe Associates, LLC, et. al.

CL20-2091 5713 Campbell Avenue E0100227037 City of Richmond v.

Greanleafe Associates, LLC, et. al.

CL20-2091 5717 Campbell Avenue E0100227020 City of Richmond v.

Greanleafe Associates, LLC, et. al.

CL20-2091 1403 Stiff Street E0100227031 City of Richmond v.

Greanleafe Associates, LLC, et. al.

CL20-2091 1405 Stiff Street E0100227032 City of Richmond v.

Greanleafe Associates, LLC, et. al.

CL20-2091 1407 Stiff Street E0100227033 City of Richmond v.

Greanleafe Associates, LLC, et. al.

CL20-2091 1409 Stiff Street E0100227034 City of Richmond v.

Greanleafe Associates, LLC, et. al.

CL20-2091 1411 Stiff Street E0100227019 City of Richmond v.

Greanleafe Associates, LLC, et. al.

CL20-2091 5715 Campbell Avenue E0100227030 City of Richmond v. Sallie C. Day, et. al.

CL20-609 1401 Stiff Street

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VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER BRITTANY RILEY, Plaintiff v.

MICHAEL RILEY, Defendant.

Case No.: CL21001375-00 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 1st day of June, 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: HENRICO COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT 4301 E. Parham Road, Richmond, VA 23228 CARLETHA BOWMAN v.

EDWARD BOWMAN, Case No.: CL20-5058 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to divorce.

It is ORDERED that EDWARD BOWMAN appear at the above-named court and protect his/her interests on or before June 7th, 2021.

Entered April 5, 2021 An Extract Teste: Heidi S. Barshinger, Clerk VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER MISTY BUFFUM, Plaintiff v.

MATTHEW BUFFUM, Defendant.

Case No.: CL21001258-00 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 24th day of May, 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

COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE COUNTY OF HANOVER HEATHER E. HUNTER-JUSTICE, Plaintiff v.

RYAN E. JUSTICE, Defendant.

Civil No.: CL21-001163-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit, brought by Heather E. HunterJustice is a complaint for divorce. It appearing from an affidavit that the Defendant, Ryan E. Justice, cannot be found, and that due diligence has been used witout effect to ascertain the location of the Defendant; it is hereby ORDERED that the Defendant appear before this Court on or before May 19, 2021 at 9:00 a.m., to protect her interest herein; A Copy, Teste: FRANK D. HARGROVE, JR., Clerk I ask for this: Jason W. Costanzo VSB #87422 Pagano & Marks, P.C. (804) 447-1002 Telephone (804) 562-5924 Fax Counsel for the Plaintiff VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER FANTICASIA WALKER, Plaintiff v.

MADI CEESAY, Defendant.

Case No.: CL21001148-00 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 19th day of May, 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 EVAN HARRIS-DILLARD, Plaintiff v.

LEON DILLARD, JR., Defendant.

Case No.: CL20004669-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

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

It is ORDERED that the defendant, whose whereabouts are unknown, appear here on or before the 7th day of May, 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 ATTILA HORVAT, Plaintiff v.

CAROLYN HORVAT, Defendant.

Case No.: CL21001093-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

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

It is ORDERED that the defendant, whose whereabouts are unknown, appear here on or before the 7th day of May, 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 BRITTNY HATCHER, Plaintiff v.

NAKEA HATCHER, SR., Defendant.

Case No.: CL20004695-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

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

It is ORDERED that the defendant, who is a nonresident, appear here on or before the 19th day of May, 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 VSB# 27724 Law Office of Dorothy M. Eure, P.C. 8460 Mount Eagle Road Ashland, VA 23005 (804) 798-9667

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City of Richmond v. Junius W. Meredith, Sr., et. al.

CL20-2414 5101 Walmsley Boulevard C0080857032 City of Richmond v. Althea V. Henry, et. al.

CL20-2372 209 Winber Drive S0042908014 City of Richmond v. Lillian Chavis, et. al.

CL20-3310 2721 Woodrow Avenue N0000707024 City of Richmond v. Bernard D. Ogburn, et. al.

CL20-2968 2801 Y Street E0120427014 City of Richmond v. Parties Unknown, et. al.

CL20-2948 2310 Yorktown Avenue S0080453006 City of Richmond v. Wilbert H. Patron, Jr., et. al.

CL20-2946 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 @richmondgov.com (804) 646-7949, or to Christie Hamlin at christie.hamlin@ richmondgov.com (804) 6466940.

Gregory A. Lukanuski Deputy City Attorney Special Commissioner 900 East Broad Street, Room 400 Richmond, Virginia 23219 Virginia: In the Circuit Court of the County of Henrico SAMUEL FLOYD MAYS, Jr., Trustee JOYCE DRUDGE MAYS, Trustee (Plaintiffs) Estate of W.S. Forbes, deceased CATHERINE FORBES Heir of the Estate of W.S. Forbes THOMAS A. FATULA Heir of the Estate of W.S.Forbes Unknown Heirs of W.S. Forbes and parties Unknown (Defendants) Case No. CL-21-1423 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of the above-styled suit is for the Plaintiffs to obtain interest in alleys bordering parcels free of encumbrances by adverse possession as they purchased these parcels, some with appurtenances on the alley ways adjacent to Lots 16-27, Block B Battle Park in Sandston, Henrico County, Virginia, and they and their predecessors in interest have cordoned off with fencing and continuously maintained such alley ways as their own for a period of over 18 years.

And, it appearing by affidavit filed according to law that the Plaintiffs have exercised due diligence in attempting to contact Catherine Forbes and Thomas A. Fatula, heirs of the Estate of W.S. Forbes, deceased, the only believed known heir, to no avail, it is therefore ORDERED that the said Catherine Forbes and Thomas A. Fatula, heirs of the Estate of W.S. Forbes, deceased, do appear on or before the 7th day of June, 2021, in the Clerk’s Office of this Court and do what is necessary to protect their interest.

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I Ask For This: Diane Christensen VSB #47568 Christensen Law, Inc. P.O. Box 775 Sandston, Virginia 23150 (804) 326-2154 (804) 326-2158 facsimile VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v.

ANTHONY A. HEWLETT, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL21-1011 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 2014 Fairmount Avenue, Tax Map Number E000-0614/012, Richmond, Virginia, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Anthony A. Hewlett.

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

IT IS ORDERED that Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before JUNE 10, 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.

TEKEISHA SMITH, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL21-1037 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 3220 Terminal Avenue, Tax Map Number C009-0589/018, Richmond, Virginia, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Tekeisha Smith.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, TEKEISHA SMITH, 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 TEKEISHA SMITH, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before JUNE 10, 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

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804-646-7949 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v.

ELVERT S. WOOD, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL21-861 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 2002 Ridgemont Road, Tax Map Number S007-1634/009, Richmond, Virginia, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Elvert S. Wood.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owners, ELVERT S. WOOD, 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, 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 ELVERT S. WOOD, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before JUNE 10, 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.

BAMBALE OSBY, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL21-864 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 2105 Whitcomb Street, Tax Map Number E000-1056/003, Richmond, Virginia, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Bambale Osby.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, BAMBALE OSBY, 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 JUAN CORPENING, BENEFICIARY of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 183793 on February 27, 2018, 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.”

I T I S OR D ERE D th a t BAMBALE OSBY, J U A N C OR P E N I N G , BENEFICIARY of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 18-3793 on February 27, 2018, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before JUNE 10, 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.

BRUNSON CONTRACTORS, LLC, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL21-594 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 1607 North 23rd Street, Tax Map Number E000-0860/004, Richmond, Virginia, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Brunson Contractors, LLC.

An Affidavit having been filed that DAWOUD ADEYLOA, Registered A g e n t f o r B RU N S O N CONTRACTORS, LLC, who has been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to his/her/their 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.”

I T I S OR D ERE D t h a t D A W OU D ADEYLOA, Registered A g e n t f o r B RU N S O N CONTRACTORS, LLC, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before JUNE 10, 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

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

ALVIN BROOKS, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL21-837 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 3117 Dill Avenue, Tax Map Number N000-0997/012, Richmond, Virginia, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Alvin Brooks.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, ALVIN BROOKS, 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 INVESTORS HO M E M ORT G A G E CORPORATION, listed as inactive in the records of the Virginia State Corporation Commission, TRUSTEE of a Credit Line Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Deed Book 85 page 715 on July 3, 1986, has not been located and has not filed

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a response to this action; that INVESTORS SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION, listed as inactive in the records of the Virginia State Corporation Commission, BENEFICIARY of a Credit Line Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Deed Book 85 page 715 on July 3, 1986, 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.”

I T I S OR D ERE D t h a t A LV I N B ROO K S , I N V E S TOR S HO M E M ORT G A G E CORPORATION, listed as inactive in the records of the Virginia State Corporation Commission, TRUSTEE of a Credit Line Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Deed Book 85 page 715 on July 3, 1986, I N V E S TOR S S AV I N G S AND LOAN ASSOCIATION, listed as inactive in the records of the Virginia State Corporation Commission, BENEFICIARY of a Credit Line Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Deed Book 85 page 715 on July 3, 1986, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before JUNE 10, 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.

PROPERTY VENTURES, INC, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL21-862 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 4001 Sharon Court, Tax Map Number S000-2921/015, Richmond, Virginia, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Property Ventures, Inc.

An Affidavit having been filed that ROBERT BELOFF, Registered Agent for PROPERTY VENTURES, INC, who has been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to his 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.”

I T I S OR D ERE D that ROBERT BELOFF, Registered Agent for PROPERTY VENTURES, INC, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before JUNE 10, 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.

EGLENNA FUQUA, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL20-4738 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 1224 Wallace Street, Tax Map Number W000-0437/053, Richmond, Virginia, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Eglenna Fuqua.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, EGLENNA FUQUA, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action, 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 EGLENNA FUQUA, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before JUNE 11, 2021 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

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Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7949

NOTICE Dinamita Express LLC Trading as: Palenke Bar & Grill 6835 Midlothian Turnpike Richmond, Virginia 23225 The above establishment is applying to the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage C ontrol (ABC) AUTHORITY for a Wine and Beer on & Off Premises and Keg & Mixed Beverages on Premises license to sell or manufacture alcoholic beverages.

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.

Boni Roni BBQ LLC Trading as: Boni Roni BBQ 3016A Mountain Rd Glen Allen, Virginia 23060-2001 The above establishment is applying to the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage C ontrol (ABC) AUTHORITY for a Beer On & Off Premises license to sell or manufacture alcoholic beverages.

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.

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Allen Walker, Jr, Petitioner, or otherwise said complaint will be taken for confessed, and a Judgment by Default entered.

Defendant is required to file

responsive pleadings with the court and Plaintiff’s Attorney, H. Daniel Forrester, III, 224 N. Main St., Clinton, TN 37716.

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This April 12, 2021.

Harold P. Cousins Jr. Clerk and Master By: Blake Williams Deputy Clerk

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E&W Management Group Corporation Trading as: JR Crickets of Virginia 1509 Chamberlayne Ave. Richmond, VA 23222-5205 The above establishment is applying to the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage C ontrol (ABC) AUTHORITY for a Wine and Beer On Premises & Mixed Beverage Restaurant license to sell or manufacture alcoholic beverages.

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.

IN THE SEVENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT FOR THE STATE OF TENNESSEE CHANCERY DIVISION AT CLINTON, TENNESSEE Kimberly Sue Walker Dotson Whereabouts Unknown Last Known Address: Unknown Charles Allen Walker, Jr. Petitioner Case No. 20CH2609 Vs. Kimberly Sue Walker Dotson Defendants NOTICE OF SERVICE BY PUBLICATION

It appears from the pleadings filed in this cause that Kimberly Sue Walker Dotson whereabouts are unknown. In compliance with the provisions of T.C.A. 21-1-204 and the Order of Publication of this court entered April 9, 2021, service of process will be made by publication.

SHE IS THEREFORE, HEREBY REQUIRED TO APPEAR ON OR BEFORE THIRTY (30) DAYS AFTER T H E L A S T D AT E O F PUBLICATION before the Clerk and Master of Chancery Court, located at 100 N. Main Street, Suite 308, Clinton, Tennessee and make defense to the complaint filed against HER in said court by Charles

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DIESEL TECHNOLOGY INSTRUCTOR #FO180 (Reynolds Community College, Richmond, VA) Fulltime, nine-month teaching faculty-ranked appointment.

High School diploma or equivalent with an Associate’s degree or equivalent in Diesel Technology. Five (5) years of current and related occupational experience.

Automotive Service Excellence (ASE) or equivalent certificate in Diesel Technology. The selected candidate must be able to pass the College’s pre-employment security screening. Salary range: $43,776 - $65,000. Salary commensurate with the education and experience of the applicant.

APPLICATION PROCESS: Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. This positon will be filled for the Fall 2021 semester (start date of August 16, 2021).

Additional information is available on the college’s website: www.reynolds.edu/jobs.

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The V irginia Economic Development Partnership (VEDP) is seeking an experienced 3D modeler and animator to build and deliver creative assets that will visually communicate learning concepts through various mediums.

They will work collaboratively with instructional designers and project managers within the world-class Talent Solutions Division’s Talent Accelerator Program.

The Virginia Economic Development Partnership (VEDP) is seeking an experienced SQL Server DBA / Developer in its Information Technology Division. The primary responsibilities of this position include the design, development, implementation, integrity and support of the enterprise database architecture and programs with some project management.

All candidates must apply through our website https://www.vedp.org/aboutvedp. Application deadline: April 30, 2021.

All candidates must apply through our website https://www.vedp.org/about-vedp.

Application deadline: Open Until Filled.

VEDP is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, sex, color, national origin, religion, age, veteran status, political affiliation, genetics, or against otherwise qualified individuals with disabilities. It is VEDP’s intent that its employment and personnel policies and practices conform to all applicable federal, state and local laws and regulations regarding non-discrimination > ` >vwÀ >Ì Ûi >VÌ ° Ƃ«« V> ÌÃ ÀiµÕ À } more information or requiring assistance may contact VEDP Human Resources at 1-804545-5634 or vedphr@vedp.org. TDD 1-800828-1120

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