About Miss Community Clovia

Clovia Lawrence is a seasoned broadcast journalist who is best known in the Richmond Metropolitan area as \"Miss Community\" or \"Community Clovia.\" With more than 20 years experience, her real passion is in tackling tough topics and issues that affect the lives of people from every walk of life. Ms. Lawrence is the product of the Richmond Public School system and a graduate of Virginia Union University. Covering the Central Virginia market, she has a proven track record as a news reporter, announcer, and community affairs director working at more than a dozen radio stations in virtually every format.

I love you is soooo powerful and can change lives for the better.  I love you means patience, kindness and not boasting of others faults. It’s definitely not conditional ….never ever.  Are you thankful to have love or give love? Are thankful for your shelter? Are you thankful to have running fresh water in your […]

World AIDS Day is observed each year on December 1st, to raise awareness and bring attention to the global AIDS epidemic. It also focuses on the importance of HIV testing within our own community. HIV or Human Immunodeficiency Virus is the virus that causes AIDS. HIV rates in Richmond are consistently higher than the State […]

Let’s prepare food and be safe this holiday season.  The number one cause in home fires is unattended cooking.  Please stay focused while  preparing food on the stove or oven.  The Richmond Fire Department has developed helpful tips to prevent home fires while cooking at www.richmondgov.com/fire/documents/RFD_kitchen_safety.pdf Happy Holidays!  Miss Community Cloovia and Lil Miss Kenya Sarai

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Food, fun and fellowship sums up the success of the annual Thanksgiving Day Feast at the Greater Richmond Convention Center.  Hundreds of attendees were served great food by some wonderful volunteers.  My Radio One family showed up and showed out! Thank you Linda, Marsha, Kevin, Kevin Jr. Jazmine, Ciara, Julia, Margaret, Ebony, Asia, Gary, Cherlynne, Carrie, […]

In observance of the Thanksgiving Holiday, city offices will be closed on Thursday, November 25th and Friday, November 26th. The Solid Waste Management Division will be closed on Thanksgiving Day.   For a complete  list of refuse schedules and services log on to www.richmondgov.com/PublicWorks/services.aspx Happy Thanksgiving and be safe!  Miss Community Cloovia and lil Miss Kenya […]

Rodney White was one of my favorite classmates who kept me laughing.  He was really smart but just didnt apply himself.  Why did he joke so much? I guess now that he didnt want us to see him really crying inside from not having a real family and being moved from foster care  to foster […]

Governor Bob McDonnell stands up for Christmans.  The governor’s office confirmed Thursday that the Executive Mansion will display a nativity scene given by the Catholic League this year. The Catholic League sent the nativities to all state governors in an attempt to offset a high-profile seasonal campaign by the group American Atheists.  The group is […]

The Rolling for Freedom Project, the NAACP, the ACLU and other work groups received the report during a recent meeting with the Secretary of the Commonwealth and the Director of Restoration of Rights.  I will keep you updated on the numbers when they are available.  If you were convicted of a felony and would like […]

Miss Community Clovia had the chance to check in on Richmond Mayor, Dwight C. Jones and shed some light on some of the initiatives he’s been working on around the city. Mayor Dwight C. Jones discusses poverty in the city of Richmond and what he plans on doing to fix this overwhelming problem.

The midterm congressional elections are done.  The next Virginia election is November 2011 that’s when all seats are up for grabs in the General Assembly and local government.  For more information on the voting process and election results log on to the State Board of Elections website at www.sbe.virginia.gov. I believe in voting the issue […]

Congressman Connolly will play the wait game since 921 votes separates a sure win for him or his Republican challenger Keith Fimian. The margin is less than one-percent, Fimian will be allowed to request a recount after November 21st.  To learn more information about the recount process and voting just log on to the State […]

Rev. Al Sharpton discussed with me the importance of this midterm congressional election on Tuesday, November 2, 2010.   The polls are open today from 6am-7pm.  If you are a registered voter in Virginia, please exercise your right to vote.  We are working and living basically where we want to because our ancestors fought and died for that vote.  Make history […]