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Summary

A car ride with East End Newport News resident and advocate Yugonda Sample-Jones. The trip starts at the East End Boys and Girls Club, then crosses under I-664 to loop around part of Dominion Terminal. Sample-Jones has a brief exchange with a truck driver making a delivery to the Port of Virginia. Then, the drive continues out of Dominion Terminal, down Terminal Avenue directly beneath the I- 664 overpass where Jones investigates a new development project.

The next stop is the "death ditch," a site where raw sewage leaked into the neighborhood from Hampton Roads Sanitation several years prior. Jones drives down Jefferson Ave to show the sites of some of the new developments with the Choice Neighborhood Initiative including a fabrication educational space and a seafood market. Finally, she reflects on Pinkett's Beach at the southern tip of the neighborhood, loops past the Aquavista Towers and Lassiter Courts, and ends at the community garden adjacent to Zion Baptist Church.