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10112TDCV01B 1-12 Bl city BLACK 10112TDCV01B ZALLCALL 66 238:31 011107 BANK OF RICHMOND SHARES UP Gateway Financial Holdings to buy bank for $55.8 million. Business, B9 Metro Business Editor Andrew C.Taylor III (804) 649-6950 stayloiCtlnwsdlspatciioni Saturday, January 1 3th 7:30 pirn, at the Atari Ravian (Stuart CSagel Oei Ittcfcntond mes-Bupatd Friday, January 12, 2007 www.TinwsDispatch.com Altria employees' data missing Miller is chairman for Chesterfield B3 Republican Party fills Va. posts B3 Social Security numbers were on one of five laptops at a New York pension consulting firm that police say were stolen from the firm. Altria is the parent company of Henrico County-based Philip Morris USA and of Kraft Foods an employer in the Richmond area. Altria spokeswoman Lisa Gonzalez said yesterday that the consultant Towers Perrin "informed us a few weeks ago that a laptop containing personal information was stolen from Tow the Towers Perrin offices at 335 Madison according to the criminal complaint.

Rivers was released that day on $10,000 bail and has an April 5 court date, a spokesman for the Manhattan District Attorney's Office said yesterday. The investigation is ongoing, said spokesman Edison Albam. Rivers worked as a junior-level administrative employee before resigning Dec 18, according to Towers Perrin. SEE DATA pageB3- ers Perrin's Manhattan offices." According to the Manhattan District Attorney's Office, the computers vanished in late November. Towers Perrin, which provides pension and benefit consulting services, issued a statement saying "we have no knowledge that any of this information has been misused." Dewayne Rivers, 30, of Brooklyn, a Towers Perrin employee for four years, was arrested Dec.

28 and charged with the theft of five laptop computers from Personal information was on laptop taken from firm in New York, police say BY CHIP JOKES Times-Dispatch Star Wms Nearly 18,000 Altria Group Inc. employees have been warned their personal information is missing. Their names, salaries, birth dates and uke. too Have your Kids' mental health at issue Advocates back several proposals to bolster psychiatric services BYTAMMIE SMTTH Times-Dispatch Staff Wetter Vicki Hardy-Murrell is a registered nurse who works with pediatricians, but even with that background, she has found herself frustrated when trying to get her daughter mental health care. "I know people on the inside," Hardy-Murrell said.

Still, it took several weeks to get her daughter in to see a mental health specialist when several years ago she began having behavioral problems related to another medical diagnosis. There are just not enough doctors to go around to meet all the needs in a timely fashion," Hardy-Murrell said. Children's health advocates are back ELSEWHERE Other General Assembly-related coverage. CON LONCVTIMES-DISPATCH har coffaa at a Rich- Kfltity Zoghby Milan a broad twist Mondraa Staibudai. ia chain hi tha products at companyownad Most Starbucks in Virginia now selling treats without trans fats BY JOE MACENKA TmesDispatch Stajf Wiimai a thy Zoghby used to have a long-distance love affair with the baked-goods case at Starbucks.

It was strictly a matter of look but don't touch. ing several budget and legislative proposals in the General Assembly that seek to improve access to mental health care services for children. Hardy-Murrell said if a child is suicidal or homicidal they can get care right away. On the other hand, she said, "You may have a child in great need because they may be in a severe anxiety attack or in mental health crisis of some kind." They still can't access services in a timely fashion, and by that I mean 24 hours. Some families I know, it can take up to four months to get a doctor's appointment," said Hardy-Murrell, director of the Virginia Federation of Families, which helps families SEE HEALTH PAGE B2 Old bells returning toVUU Gift from Belgium will restore bell tower that been silent for 60 years BY GARY ROBERTSON Times-Dispatch Staff Wetter After more than 60 years of silence, a historic 161-foot bell tower on the campus of Virginia Union University will ring again.

The Belgian government is donat STARBUCKS IN VIRGINIA Total store: 230, including 50 in the Richmond area CoaHMajMMHMd stores: 140 in Virginia, including 30 in the Richmond area; the remainder are run as licensed partnerships with grocery stores, department stores, etc. Store But bam aBjakutad trass fats; 220; the remainder are targeted tor conversion before the end of 2007 SOURCE Startxjcks Coffee Co. No more. Without fanfare, Starbucks has eliminated trans fats from its products at company-owned stores in Richmond and most of the rest of Virginia. "I think it's wonderful," Zoghby said Monday morning at the Starbucks across from the River Road Shopping Center.

Zogbby's morning routine on the way to her job at the University of Richmond used to be limited to stopping at Starbucks for coffee only. Now that trans fats have been purged from the food and the drink syrups, she doesn't hesitate to buy a baked treat as well. Health experts say trans fats raise levels of artery-clogging cholesterol and contribute to heart disease. "IVe always been very conscious of everything in terms of watching my weight and whatnot," said Zoghby, who chose a multigrain braided bread twist. "You had this case with all these things in it that you knew you couldn't eat." When Starbucks announced last week it had eliminated trans fats at stores in selected cities nationwide, there were no Virginia cities on the list.

But the company quickly reached agreements with bakers and suppliers in most of the state, said Jodi Knauer, a regional marketing specialist for the Seattle-based chain. There are 140 company-owned Star- SEE STARBUCKS, PAGE B3 1 11 mi ONLINE: Does "no trans tat" matter? Take our poll on Tin jWJ Henrico1 County Compost fight moves to Web ing a tuned set of four bells for installation in the tower of the university's Belgian Friendship Building, which was given to Virginia Union and reassembled in Richmond in the years after the 1939 World's Fair. Proposed composting site Environmental Solutions a Richmond-area recycling company, is seeking approval to compost tobacco byproducts at an industrial site in Enon. 2) vSz TecpSrtloa' beat on the Internet. A Web site called "Keep Tobacco Sludge Out Of Enon" (wwwjiosludge.com) raises concerns about a plan by Environmental Solutions Inc.

to conduct tobacco-composting operations on a 5-acre portion of a 143-acre industrial site at 13101 N. Enon Church Road. The site is the former home of a Brown Williamson Tobacco Corp. plant The already flourishing communities of Chester and Enon do not need a factory that will bring unwelcome odor to the area and its residents," the Web site says. "Converting tobacco sludge into compost is a novel, green approach but has not been applied before on this scale and is better suited for a less-populated location." Composting breaks down toxins, such as pesticides and hormones in animal manure, SEE COMPOST, PAGE B8 Chesterfield project to use tobacco waste criticized on Internet BY JULIAN WALKER Times-Dispatch Star Wetter A local recycling company that wants to compost tobacco byproducts in Chesterfield County has support from local leaders, but it's taking some Henrico County Dianne Watkins of Richmond, who organized an effort in 2004 to replace the tower's bells, was joyful yesterday in relating word of Belgium's gift.

"A majestic tower that has been silent will now have a voice in the community," said Watkins, who retired SEE BELLS, PAGE B8 1 Chesterfield County TiMES-nsnmcH.