Oct. 15, 2002 – Thursday is the last opportunity for voters to request a mail-in absentee ballot to cast their votes in the Nov. 5 general election, according to John Abramson, supervisor of Elections.
Abramson said, however, that anyone who will be out of the territory during the election but does not have a specific forwarding address can cast a vote before the election date.
Abramson said he hopes ballots will be available this week so people can execute a vote if they are leaving the territory. "They would deliver it into the ballot box themselves," he said.
Early voting must be done at the Elections offices. Mail-in ballots must be postmarked Nov. 5, Abramson said.
To get an absentee ballot, a friend or family member must fill out an application at the Board of Elections office with the voter's address, board member Ana Davila said. She said the board will then mail the ballot to the voter.
Abramson said the procedure for counting absentee ballots assures that the voting is kept secret. Ten days after the general election, he said, the Board of Elections will separate the white envelopes containing ballots from the voters' affidavits, noting the date and time they were received.
After that, the board will begin to count the ballots. "By the time they get to the ballots in the white envelopes, they have no idea whose ballot belongs to whom," he said.
There are some absentee votes that are not kept secret, Abramson said — those cast by voters who opt to fax their ballots to the Board of Elections on Nov. 5. He said people who choose to do that must sign a waiver giving up their right to secrecy as their votes are tabulated.
Those planning to fax their ballots are still required to fill out an application for an absentee ballot.
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MAIL-IN ABSENTEE BALLOT REQUESTS DUE THURSDAY
Oct. 15, 2002 – Thursday is the last opportunity for voters to request a mail-in absentee ballot to cast their votes in the Nov. 5 general election, according to John Abramson, supervisor of Elections.
Abramson said, however, that anyone who will be out of the territory during the election but does not have a specific forwarding address can cast a vote before the election date.
Abramson said he hopes ballots will be available this week so people can execute a vote if they are leaving the territory. "They would deliver it into the ballot box themselves," he said.
Early voting must be done at the Elections offices. Mail-in ballots must be postmarked Nov. 5, Abramson said.
To get an absentee ballot, a friend or family member must fill out an application at the Board of Elections office with the voter's address, board member Ana Davila said. She said the board will then mail the ballot to the voter.
Abramson said the procedure for counting absentee ballots assures that the voting is kept secret. Ten days after the general election, he said, the Board of Elections will separate the white envelopes containing ballots from the voters' affidavits, noting the date and time they were received.
After that, the board will begin to count the ballots. "By the time they get to the ballots in the white envelopes, they have no idea whose ballot belongs to whom," he said.
There are some absentee votes that are not kept secret, Abramson said — those cast by voters who opt to fax their ballots to the Board of Elections on Nov. 5. He said people who choose to do that must sign a waiver giving up their right to secrecy as their votes are tabulated.
Those planning to fax their ballots are still required to fill out an application for an absentee ballot.
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Abramson said, however, that anyone who will be out of the territory during the election but does not have a specific forwarding address can cast a vote before the election date.
Abramson said he hopes ballots will be available this week so people can execute a vote if they are leaving the territory. "They would deliver it into the ballot box themselves," he said.
Early voting must be done at the Elections offices. Mail-in ballots must be postmarked Nov. 5, Abramson said.
To get an absentee ballot, a friend or family member must fill out an application at the Board of Elections office with the voter's address, board member Ana Davila said. She said the board will then mail the ballot to the voter.
Abramson said the procedure for counting absentee ballots assures that the voting is kept secret. Ten days after the general election, he said, the Board of Elections will separate the white envelopes containing ballots from the voters' affidavits, noting the date and time they were received.
After that, the board will begin to count the ballots. "By the time they get to the ballots in the white envelopes, they have no idea whose ballot belongs to whom," he said.
There are some absentee votes that are not kept secret, Abramson said — those cast by voters who opt to fax their ballots to the Board of Elections on Nov. 5. He said people who choose to do that must sign a waiver giving up their right to secrecy as their votes are tabulated.
Those planning to fax their ballots are still required to fill out an application for an absentee ballot.
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MAIL-IN ABSENTEE BALLOT REQUESTS DUE THURSDAY
Oct. 15, 2002 – Thursday is the last opportunity for voters to request a mail-in absentee ballot to cast their votes in the Nov. 5 general election, according to John Abramson, supervisor of Elections.
Abramson said, however, that anyone who will be out of the territory during the election but does not have a specific forwarding address can cast a vote before the election date.
Abramson said he hopes ballots will be available this week so people can execute a vote if they are leaving the territory. "They would deliver it into the ballot box themselves," he said.
Early voting must be done at the Elections offices. Mail-in ballots must be postmarked Nov. 5, Abramson said.
To get an absentee ballot, a friend or family member must fill out an application at the Board of Elections office with the voter's address, board member Ana Davila said. She said the board will then mail the ballot to the voter.
Abramson said the procedure for counting absentee ballots assures that the voting is kept secret. Ten days after the general election, he said, the Board of Elections will separate the white envelopes containing ballots from the voters' affidavits, noting the date and time they were received.
After that, the board will begin to count the ballots. "By the time they get to the ballots in the white envelopes, they have no idea whose ballot belongs to whom," he said.
There are some absentee votes that are not kept secret, Abramson said — those cast by voters who opt to fax their ballots to the Board of Elections on Nov. 5. He said people who choose to do that must sign a waiver giving up their right to secrecy as their votes are tabulated.
Those planning to fax their ballots are still required to fill out an application for an absentee ballot.
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Abramson said, however, that anyone who will be out of the territory during the election but does not have a specific forwarding address can cast a vote before the election date.
Abramson said he hopes ballots will be available this week so people can execute a vote if they are leaving the territory. "They would deliver it into the ballot box themselves," he said.
Early voting must be done at the Elections offices. Mail-in ballots must be postmarked Nov. 5, Abramson said.
To get an absentee ballot, a friend or family member must fill out an application at the Board of Elections office with the voter's address, board member Ana Davila said. She said the board will then mail the ballot to the voter.
Abramson said the procedure for counting absentee ballots assures that the voting is kept secret. Ten days after the general election, he said, the Board of Elections will separate the white envelopes containing ballots from the voters' affidavits, noting the date and time they were received.
After that, the board will begin to count the ballots. "By the time they get to the ballots in the white envelopes, they have no idea whose ballot belongs to whom," he said.
There are some absentee votes that are not kept secret, Abramson said — those cast by voters who opt to fax their ballots to the Board of Elections on Nov. 5. He said people who choose to do that must sign a waiver giving up their right to secrecy as their votes are tabulated.
Those planning to fax their ballots are still required to fill out an application for an absentee ballot.
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SAX ARTIST SANBORN OPENING REICHHOLD SEASON
Oct. 15, 2002 – David Sanborn "does not flirt with his instrument; he blows it hard," a biography of the jazz/blues saxophonist says on the VH1.com Web site. And that's pretty amazing.
What led Sanborn, who will open the 2002-03 season at the Reichhold Center for the Arts on Saturday, to take up the sax at the age of 11 was trouble breathing — a result of having had polio.
What led him to stay with it for the four and a half decades since was a discovery he made at the age of 15: He was good enough to play with the big boys.
Born in Tampa, Florida, Sanborn grew up in St. Louis, where taking up the saxophone as therapy served him in good stead. A pal who played the drums talked his — David's — way into playing background with Little Milton for a couple of gigs at a place called Sunset Teen Town. Then, still 15, Sanborn talked his own way into playing with a trio at The Other Side, a small club in St. Louis's musically hip Gaslight Square area.
He did well enough that "they kept inviting me back, and I started to develop some real playing experience as a result of sitting in with these guys — mostly the blues," he told Digital Interviews. "I would learn tunes and stuff … I didn't get paid for it, but I formed a lot of friendships."
While majoring in music at Northwestern University, he got interested in Chicago's jazz/blues tradition. But he moved in 1967 to San Francisco, where, walking down the street one day, he ran into a friend from St. Louis, Phillip Wilson, who had just joined the Butterfield Blues Band and invited Sanborn to catch them at the fabled Fillmore that night. The band was heading to Los Angeles to record an album, and Sanborn joined them just to hang out in the studio. One thing led to another, he told Digital Interviews: "I think it was because I looked so pathetic, standing there with my horn; Paul Butterfield said, 'Why don't you just come and play on a tune?' I sat in, and I did okay. And I was with Butterfield for almost five years."
A week after the band broke up, he got a gig with Stevie Wonder in New York, touring for a couple of years, opening for the Rolling Stones ("and I played with The Stones for a minute"). Another friend got a job as musical director for David Bowie, who — guess what? — was looking for a saxophonist. And guess who got the gig.
Sanborn went on to play with Paul Simon and then James Taylor, who "agreed to let me open for him if I played with him, also," he told Digital Interviews. "So, I got to be the opening act and I got a lot of exposure that way." He also performed and did sessions work with John Scofield's Electric Outlet, B.B. King, Steely Dan, Rickie Lee Jones, the Eagles and Bruce Springsteen. In addition, he has led a variety of his own groups.
His recording breakthrough came in 1980 with "Hideaway," for which he wrote most of the material. The LP stayed on both the urban contemporary and jazz charts for more than a year and earned Sanborn a Grammy nomination for Best R&B Instrumental Performance. "Voyeur" earned him his first Grammy, in 1982. He collected another for his 1986 album "Double Vision."
Meanwhile, in 1983, his "Backstreet" was a major hit among contemporary jazz fans, staying at the top of the jazz charts for a year. In 1991, he made his first "pure jazz" album, "Another Hand." Four years later came another, "Pearls," which topped the Billboard jazz chart for many weeks.
Sanborn also is known in music circles as the producer of the critically acclaimed syndicated television series "Night Music," which brought rarely seen players to the public eye, and as the host of radio's "The Jazz Show." Of "Night Music," he told Digital Interviews: "We had a lot of people from different genres come on and show how music connects up. I'm one of those people that wants to bring a lot of disparate elements together."
There also is a Caribbean connection in his life. He serves on the board of directors of The Crossroads Foundation, which raises money and awareness for a drug rehabilitation facility, Crossroads Centre, located on 10 acres at Willoughby Bay in Antigua. This came about because he is a longtime acquaintance of Eric Clapton, who has a vacation home on the island and was instrumental in establishing the center.
Show notes
Saturday's concert at the Reichhold Center, which is being presented in partnership with Theodore Tunick & Company, starts at 8 p.m. Tickets are $75 in the covered, cushioned seating, and $45 and $25 in the open air seats. Season subscribers and donors will be invited to meet Sanborn at a reception following the concert.
For tickets outlets or to place orders using a charge card, call the Reichhold box office at 693-1559. You also can purchase tickets online at the recently redesigned Reichhold Center Web site.
There is still time to purchase a Reichhold season subscription package — the Foundation Series, consisting of all seven concerts, or the Choose-Your-Own Series, which lets patrons pick any five or six of the seven shows. For details, visit the Reichhold Web site and see the Source season preview, 7 concerts on tap for 2002-03 Reichhold season.
For St. John residents, there's a special incentive to see the show: Republic Barges is making a run to Red Hook and back at no charge to those holding tickets to the show. For details, see "Barge service free for David Sanborn concert".
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What led Sanborn, who will open the 2002-03 season at the Reichhold Center for the Arts on Saturday, to take up the sax at the age of 11 was trouble breathing — a result of having had polio.
What led him to stay with it for the four and a half decades since was a discovery he made at the age of 15: He was good enough to play with the big boys.
Born in Tampa, Florida, Sanborn grew up in St. Louis, where taking up the saxophone as therapy served him in good stead. A pal who played the drums talked his — David's — way into playing background with Little Milton for a couple of gigs at a place called Sunset Teen Town. Then, still 15, Sanborn talked his own way into playing with a trio at The Other Side, a small club in St. Louis's musically hip Gaslight Square area.
He did well enough that "they kept inviting me back, and I started to develop some real playing experience as a result of sitting in with these guys — mostly the blues," he told Digital Interviews. "I would learn tunes and stuff … I didn't get paid for it, but I formed a lot of friendships."
While majoring in music at Northwestern University, he got interested in Chicago's jazz/blues tradition. But he moved in 1967 to San Francisco, where, walking down the street one day, he ran into a friend from St. Louis, Phillip Wilson, who had just joined the Butterfield Blues Band and invited Sanborn to catch them at the fabled Fillmore that night. The band was heading to Los Angeles to record an album, and Sanborn joined them just to hang out in the studio. One thing led to another, he told Digital Interviews: "I think it was because I looked so pathetic, standing there with my horn; Paul Butterfield said, 'Why don't you just come and play on a tune?' I sat in, and I did okay. And I was with Butterfield for almost five years."
A week after the band broke up, he got a gig with Stevie Wonder in New York, touring for a couple of years, opening for the Rolling Stones ("and I played with The Stones for a minute"). Another friend got a job as musical director for David Bowie, who — guess what? — was looking for a saxophonist. And guess who got the gig.
Sanborn went on to play with Paul Simon and then James Taylor, who "agreed to let me open for him if I played with him, also," he told Digital Interviews. "So, I got to be the opening act and I got a lot of exposure that way." He also performed and did sessions work with John Scofield's Electric Outlet, B.B. King, Steely Dan, Rickie Lee Jones, the Eagles and Bruce Springsteen. In addition, he has led a variety of his own groups.
His recording breakthrough came in 1980 with "Hideaway," for which he wrote most of the material. The LP stayed on both the urban contemporary and jazz charts for more than a year and earned Sanborn a Grammy nomination for Best R&B Instrumental Performance. "Voyeur" earned him his first Grammy, in 1982. He collected another for his 1986 album "Double Vision."
Meanwhile, in 1983, his "Backstreet" was a major hit among contemporary jazz fans, staying at the top of the jazz charts for a year. In 1991, he made his first "pure jazz" album, "Another Hand." Four years later came another, "Pearls," which topped the Billboard jazz chart for many weeks.
Sanborn also is known in music circles as the producer of the critically acclaimed syndicated television series "Night Music," which brought rarely seen players to the public eye, and as the host of radio's "The Jazz Show." Of "Night Music," he told Digital Interviews: "We had a lot of people from different genres come on and show how music connects up. I'm one of those people that wants to bring a lot of disparate elements together."
There also is a Caribbean connection in his life. He serves on the board of directors of The Crossroads Foundation, which raises money and awareness for a drug rehabilitation facility, Crossroads Centre, located on 10 acres at Willoughby Bay in Antigua. This came about because he is a longtime acquaintance of Eric Clapton, who has a vacation home on the island and was instrumental in establishing the center.
Show notes
Saturday's concert at the Reichhold Center, which is being presented in partnership with Theodore Tunick & Company, starts at 8 p.m. Tickets are $75 in the covered, cushioned seating, and $45 and $25 in the open air seats. Season subscribers and donors will be invited to meet Sanborn at a reception following the concert.
For tickets outlets or to place orders using a charge card, call the Reichhold box office at 693-1559. You also can purchase tickets online at the recently redesigned Reichhold Center Web site.
There is still time to purchase a Reichhold season subscription package — the Foundation Series, consisting of all seven concerts, or the Choose-Your-Own Series, which lets patrons pick any five or six of the seven shows. For details, visit the Reichhold Web site and see the Source season preview, 7 concerts on tap for 2002-03 Reichhold season.
For St. John residents, there's a special incentive to see the show: Republic Barges is making a run to Red Hook and back at no charge to those holding tickets to the show. For details, see "Barge service free for David Sanborn concert".
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SAX ARTIST SANBORN OPENING REICHHOLD SEASON
Oct. 15, 2002 – David Sanborn "does not flirt with his instrument; he blows it hard," a biography of the jazz/blues saxophonist says on the VH1.com Web site. And that's pretty amazing.
What led Sanborn, who will open the 2002-03 season at the Reichhold Center for the Arts on Saturday, to take up the sax at the age of 11 was trouble breathing — a result of having had polio.
What led him to stay with it for the four and a half decades since was a discovery he made at the age of 15: He was good enough to play with the big boys.
Born in Tampa, Florida, Sanborn grew up in St. Louis, where taking up the saxophone as therapy served him in good stead. A pal who played the drums talked his — David's — way into playing background with Little Milton for a couple of gigs at a place called Sunset Teen Town. Then, still 15, Sanborn talked his own way into playing with a trio at The Other Side, a small club in St. Louis's musically hip Gaslight Square area.
He did well enough that "they kept inviting me back, and I started to develop some real playing experience as a result of sitting in with these guys — mostly the blues," he told Digital Interviews. "I would learn tunes and stuff … I didn't get paid for it, but I formed a lot of friendships."
While majoring in music at Northwestern University, he got interested in Chicago's jazz/blues tradition. But he moved in 1967 to San Francisco, where, walking down the street one day, he ran into a friend from St. Louis, Phillip Wilson, who had just joined the Butterfield Blues Band and invited Sanborn to catch them at the fabled Fillmore that night. The band was heading to Los Angeles to record an album, and Sanborn joined them just to hang out in the studio. One thing led to another, he told Digital Interviews: "I think it was because I looked so pathetic, standing there with my horn; Paul Butterfield said, 'Why don't you just come and play on a tune?' I sat in, and I did okay. And I was with Butterfield for almost five years."
A week after the band broke up, he got a gig with Stevie Wonder in New York, touring for a couple of years, opening for the Rolling Stones ("and I played with The Stones for a minute"). Another friend got a job as musical director for David Bowie, who — guess what? — was looking for a saxophonist. And guess who got the gig.
Sanborn went on to play with Paul Simon and then James Taylor, who "agreed to let me open for him if I played with him, also," he told Digital Interviews. "So, I got to be the opening act and I got a lot of exposure that way." He also performed and did sessions work with John Scofield's Electric Outlet, B.B. King, Steely Dan, Rickie Lee Jones, the Eagles and Bruce Springsteen. In addition, he has led a variety of his own groups.
His recording breakthrough came in 1980 with "Hideaway," for which he wrote most of the material. The LP stayed on both the urban contemporary and jazz charts for more than a year and earned Sanborn a Grammy nomination for Best R&B Instrumental Performance. "Voyeur" earned him his first Grammy, in 1982. He collected another for his 1986 album "Double Vision."
Meanwhile, in 1983, his "Backstreet" was a major hit among contemporary jazz fans, staying at the top of the jazz charts for a year. In 1991, he made his first "pure jazz" album, "Another Hand." Four years later came another, "Pearls," which topped the Billboard jazz chart for many weeks.
Sanborn also is known in music circles as the producer of the critically acclaimed syndicated television series "Night Music," which brought rarely seen players to the public eye, and as the host of radio's "The Jazz Show." Of "Night Music," he told Digital Interviews: "We had a lot of people from different genres come on and show how music connects up. I'm one of those people that wants to bring a lot of disparate elements together."
There also is a Caribbean connection in his life. He serves on the board of directors of The Crossroads Foundation, which raises money and awareness for a drug rehabilitation facility, Crossroads Centre, located on 10 acres at Willoughby Bay in Antigua. This came about because he is a longtime acquaintance of Eric Clapton, who has a vacation home on the island and was instrumental in establishing the center.
Show notes
Saturday's concert by Sanborn and his band, which is being presented in partnership with Theodore Tunick & Company, starts at 8 p.m. Tickets are $75 in the covered, cushioned seating, and $45 and $25 in the open air seats. Season subscribers and donors will be invited to meet Sanborn at a reception following the concert.
For tickets outlets or to place orders using a charge card, call the Reichhold box office at 693-1559. You also can purchase tickets online at the recently redesigned Reichhold Center Web site.
There is still time to purchase a Reichhold season subscription package — the Foundation Series, consisting of all seven concerts, or the Choose-Your-Own Series, which lets patrons pick any five or six of the seven shows. For details, visit the Reichhold Web site and see the Source season preview, 7 concerts on tap for 2002-03 Reichhold season.
For St. John residents, there's a special incentive to see the show: Republic Barges is making a run to Red Hook and back at no charge to those holding tickets to the show. For details, see "Barge service free for David Sanborn concert".
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What led Sanborn, who will open the 2002-03 season at the Reichhold Center for the Arts on Saturday, to take up the sax at the age of 11 was trouble breathing — a result of having had polio.
What led him to stay with it for the four and a half decades since was a discovery he made at the age of 15: He was good enough to play with the big boys.
Born in Tampa, Florida, Sanborn grew up in St. Louis, where taking up the saxophone as therapy served him in good stead. A pal who played the drums talked his — David's — way into playing background with Little Milton for a couple of gigs at a place called Sunset Teen Town. Then, still 15, Sanborn talked his own way into playing with a trio at The Other Side, a small club in St. Louis's musically hip Gaslight Square area.
He did well enough that "they kept inviting me back, and I started to develop some real playing experience as a result of sitting in with these guys — mostly the blues," he told Digital Interviews. "I would learn tunes and stuff … I didn't get paid for it, but I formed a lot of friendships."
While majoring in music at Northwestern University, he got interested in Chicago's jazz/blues tradition. But he moved in 1967 to San Francisco, where, walking down the street one day, he ran into a friend from St. Louis, Phillip Wilson, who had just joined the Butterfield Blues Band and invited Sanborn to catch them at the fabled Fillmore that night. The band was heading to Los Angeles to record an album, and Sanborn joined them just to hang out in the studio. One thing led to another, he told Digital Interviews: "I think it was because I looked so pathetic, standing there with my horn; Paul Butterfield said, 'Why don't you just come and play on a tune?' I sat in, and I did okay. And I was with Butterfield for almost five years."
A week after the band broke up, he got a gig with Stevie Wonder in New York, touring for a couple of years, opening for the Rolling Stones ("and I played with The Stones for a minute"). Another friend got a job as musical director for David Bowie, who — guess what? — was looking for a saxophonist. And guess who got the gig.
Sanborn went on to play with Paul Simon and then James Taylor, who "agreed to let me open for him if I played with him, also," he told Digital Interviews. "So, I got to be the opening act and I got a lot of exposure that way." He also performed and did sessions work with John Scofield's Electric Outlet, B.B. King, Steely Dan, Rickie Lee Jones, the Eagles and Bruce Springsteen. In addition, he has led a variety of his own groups.
His recording breakthrough came in 1980 with "Hideaway," for which he wrote most of the material. The LP stayed on both the urban contemporary and jazz charts for more than a year and earned Sanborn a Grammy nomination for Best R&B Instrumental Performance. "Voyeur" earned him his first Grammy, in 1982. He collected another for his 1986 album "Double Vision."
Meanwhile, in 1983, his "Backstreet" was a major hit among contemporary jazz fans, staying at the top of the jazz charts for a year. In 1991, he made his first "pure jazz" album, "Another Hand." Four years later came another, "Pearls," which topped the Billboard jazz chart for many weeks.
Sanborn also is known in music circles as the producer of the critically acclaimed syndicated television series "Night Music," which brought rarely seen players to the public eye, and as the host of radio's "The Jazz Show." Of "Night Music," he told Digital Interviews: "We had a lot of people from different genres come on and show how music connects up. I'm one of those people that wants to bring a lot of disparate elements together."
There also is a Caribbean connection in his life. He serves on the board of directors of The Crossroads Foundation, which raises money and awareness for a drug rehabilitation facility, Crossroads Centre, located on 10 acres at Willoughby Bay in Antigua. This came about because he is a longtime acquaintance of Eric Clapton, who has a vacation home on the island and was instrumental in establishing the center.
Show notes
Saturday's concert by Sanborn and his band, which is being presented in partnership with Theodore Tunick & Company, starts at 8 p.m. Tickets are $75 in the covered, cushioned seating, and $45 and $25 in the open air seats. Season subscribers and donors will be invited to meet Sanborn at a reception following the concert.
For tickets outlets or to place orders using a charge card, call the Reichhold box office at 693-1559. You also can purchase tickets online at the recently redesigned Reichhold Center Web site.
There is still time to purchase a Reichhold season subscription package — the Foundation Series, consisting of all seven concerts, or the Choose-Your-Own Series, which lets patrons pick any five or six of the seven shows. For details, visit the Reichhold Web site and see the Source season preview, 7 concerts on tap for 2002-03 Reichhold season.
For St. John residents, there's a special incentive to see the show: Republic Barges is making a run to Red Hook and back at no charge to those holding tickets to the show. For details, see "Barge service free for David Sanborn concert".
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ICC, STEELWORKERS TAKE WAR TO PRINT NEWSPAPERS
Oct. 15, 2002 – The war of words between Innovative Communication Corp. and its striking telephone and cable employees continued through the weekend with a union rebuttal to ICC's full-page ad last week in the territory's two print daily newspapers.
The United Steelworkers Union, which represents the 310 Innovative employees on the picket lines, took out its own space in the papers to assert what it called misrepresentations by ICC "designed to cover up demands for drastic health care cuts and a two-tiered wage scale."
The Steelworkers said ICC is "deliberately deceiving" the public with claims that the union, in past negotiations, voted in favor of higher wage increases rather than increased pension benefits.
"It's a transparent attempt to create a smokescreen to hide the fact that, despite all the money Innovative is raking in, it's demanding to devastate our members' health care coverage and create a second tier of wages 15 percent lower than the current system," the Steelworkers' ad said.
Innovative said that it offered a wage increase of 10 percent over three years and an increase in pension benefits of 3.7 percent, or wage increases of 6 percent over three years and an increase in pension benefits of 7.41 percent, and that the union opted for the cash.
The union called Innovative's statement a falsification. "Innovative is doing enough harm to negotiations by demanding to double the deductibles on our members' health care, without engaging in deceiving double-talk about our commitment to pensions," the ad said.
The Steelworkers took issue with ICC's proposal to double workers' insurance deductibles -– to $200 for workers and $400 for employees' families. They said the company also demands a $200 deductible for workers' prescription drugs and $400 for family drug plans.
Despite the scathing advertisement, ICC spokesman Thomas Dunn said he is looking forward to a resolution when the parties sit down with a federal mediator to discuss their differences on Wednesday.
"Absolutely we're looking forward to a settlement," Dunn said. "We want to get back to work; we want our people to get back to work."
Since the strike began on Oct. 2, vandals have cut thousands of phone lines throughout the territory, affecting businesses, residents and government offices.
Dunn said the Monday holiday passed without incident, and all the violated lines are back in working order. "Right now we're in the process of doing regular repairs."
He said outside contractors were brought in to help pick up the slack with the union workers on strike, but he would not comment on how many or where they are from.
Calls to the Steelworkers Union on both St. Croix and St. Thomas were not returned Tuesday.
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The United Steelworkers Union, which represents the 310 Innovative employees on the picket lines, took out its own space in the papers to assert what it called misrepresentations by ICC "designed to cover up demands for drastic health care cuts and a two-tiered wage scale."
The Steelworkers said ICC is "deliberately deceiving" the public with claims that the union, in past negotiations, voted in favor of higher wage increases rather than increased pension benefits.
"It's a transparent attempt to create a smokescreen to hide the fact that, despite all the money Innovative is raking in, it's demanding to devastate our members' health care coverage and create a second tier of wages 15 percent lower than the current system," the Steelworkers' ad said.
Innovative said that it offered a wage increase of 10 percent over three years and an increase in pension benefits of 3.7 percent, or wage increases of 6 percent over three years and an increase in pension benefits of 7.41 percent, and that the union opted for the cash.
The union called Innovative's statement a falsification. "Innovative is doing enough harm to negotiations by demanding to double the deductibles on our members' health care, without engaging in deceiving double-talk about our commitment to pensions," the ad said.
The Steelworkers took issue with ICC's proposal to double workers' insurance deductibles -– to $200 for workers and $400 for employees' families. They said the company also demands a $200 deductible for workers' prescription drugs and $400 for family drug plans.
Despite the scathing advertisement, ICC spokesman Thomas Dunn said he is looking forward to a resolution when the parties sit down with a federal mediator to discuss their differences on Wednesday.
"Absolutely we're looking forward to a settlement," Dunn said. "We want to get back to work; we want our people to get back to work."
Since the strike began on Oct. 2, vandals have cut thousands of phone lines throughout the territory, affecting businesses, residents and government offices.
Dunn said the Monday holiday passed without incident, and all the violated lines are back in working order. "Right now we're in the process of doing regular repairs."
He said outside contractors were brought in to help pick up the slack with the union workers on strike, but he would not comment on how many or where they are from.
Calls to the Steelworkers Union on both St. Croix and St. Thomas were not returned Tuesday.
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ICC, STEELWORKERS TAKE WAR TO PRINT NEWSPAPERS
Oct. 15, 2002 – The war of words between Innovative Communication Corp. and its striking telephone and cable employees continued through the weekend with a union rebuttal to ICC's full-page ad last week in the territory's two print daily newspapers.
The United Steelworkers Union, which represents the 310 Innovative employees on the picket lines, took out its own space in the papers to assert what it called misrepresentations by ICC "designed to cover up demands for drastic health care cuts and a two-tiered wage scale."
The Steelworkers said ICC is "deliberately deceiving" the public with claims that the union, in past negotiations, voted in favor of higher wage increases rather than increased pension benefits.
"It's a transparent attempt to create a smokescreen to hide the fact that, despite all the money Innovative is raking in, it's demanding to devastate our members' health care coverage and create a second tier of wages 15 percent lower than the current system," the Steelworkers' ad said.
Innovative said that it offered a wage increase of 10 percent over three years and an increase in pension benefits of 3.7 percent, or wage increases of 6 percent over three years and an increase in pension benefits of 7.41 percent, and that the union opted for the cash.
The union called Innovative's statement a falsification. "Innovative is doing enough harm to negotiations by demanding to double the deductibles on our members' health care, without engaging in deceiving double-talk about our commitment to pensions," the ad said.
The Steelworkers took issue with ICC's proposal to double workers' insurance deductibles -– to $200 for workers and $400 for employees' families. They said the company also demands a $200 deductible for workers' prescription drugs and $400 for family drug plans.
Despite the scathing advertisement, ICC spokesman Thomas Dunn said he is looking forward to a resolution when the parties sit down with a federal mediator to discuss their differences on Wednesday.
"Absolutely we're looking forward to a settlement," Dunn said. "We want to get back to work; we want our people to get back to work."
Since the strike began on Oct. 2, vandals have cut thousands of phone lines throughout the territory, affecting businesses, residents and government offices.
Dunn said the Monday holiday passed without incident, and all the violated lines are back in working order. "Right now we're in the process of doing regular repairs."
He said outside contractors were brought in to help pick up the slack with the union workers on strike, but he would not comment on how many or where they are from.
Calls to the Steelworkers Union on both St. Croix and St. Thomas were not returned Tuesday.
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The United Steelworkers Union, which represents the 310 Innovative employees on the picket lines, took out its own space in the papers to assert what it called misrepresentations by ICC "designed to cover up demands for drastic health care cuts and a two-tiered wage scale."
The Steelworkers said ICC is "deliberately deceiving" the public with claims that the union, in past negotiations, voted in favor of higher wage increases rather than increased pension benefits.
"It's a transparent attempt to create a smokescreen to hide the fact that, despite all the money Innovative is raking in, it's demanding to devastate our members' health care coverage and create a second tier of wages 15 percent lower than the current system," the Steelworkers' ad said.
Innovative said that it offered a wage increase of 10 percent over three years and an increase in pension benefits of 3.7 percent, or wage increases of 6 percent over three years and an increase in pension benefits of 7.41 percent, and that the union opted for the cash.
The union called Innovative's statement a falsification. "Innovative is doing enough harm to negotiations by demanding to double the deductibles on our members' health care, without engaging in deceiving double-talk about our commitment to pensions," the ad said.
The Steelworkers took issue with ICC's proposal to double workers' insurance deductibles -– to $200 for workers and $400 for employees' families. They said the company also demands a $200 deductible for workers' prescription drugs and $400 for family drug plans.
Despite the scathing advertisement, ICC spokesman Thomas Dunn said he is looking forward to a resolution when the parties sit down with a federal mediator to discuss their differences on Wednesday.
"Absolutely we're looking forward to a settlement," Dunn said. "We want to get back to work; we want our people to get back to work."
Since the strike began on Oct. 2, vandals have cut thousands of phone lines throughout the territory, affecting businesses, residents and government offices.
Dunn said the Monday holiday passed without incident, and all the violated lines are back in working order. "Right now we're in the process of doing regular repairs."
He said outside contractors were brought in to help pick up the slack with the union workers on strike, but he would not comment on how many or where they are from.
Calls to the Steelworkers Union on both St. Croix and St. Thomas were not returned Tuesday.
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ICC, STEELWORKERS TAKE WAR TO PRINT NEWSPAPERS
Oct. 15, 2002 – The war of words between Innovative Communication Corp. and its striking telephone and cable employees continued through the weekend with a union rebuttal to ICC's full-page ad last week in the territory's two print daily newspapers.
The United Steelworkers Union, which represents the 310 Innovative employees on the picket lines, took out its own space in the papers to assert what it called misrepresentations by ICC "designed to cover up demands for drastic health care cuts and a two-tiered wage scale."
The Steelworkers said ICC is "deliberately deceiving" the public with claims that the union, in past negotiations, voted in favor of higher wage increases rather than increased pension benefits.
"It's a transparent attempt to create a smokescreen to hide the fact that, despite all the money Innovative is raking in, it's demanding to devastate our members' health care coverage and create a second tier of wages 15 percent lower than the current system," the Steelworkers' ad said.
Innovative said that it offered a wage increase of 10 percent over three years and an increase in pension benefits of 3.7 percent, or wage increases of 6 percent over three years and an increase in pension benefits of 7.41 percent, and that the union opted for the cash.
The union called Innovative's statement a falsification. "Innovative is doing enough harm to negotiations by demanding to double the deductibles on our members' health care, without engaging in deceiving double-talk about our commitment to pensions," the ad said.
The Steelworkers took issue with ICC's proposal to double workers' insurance deductibles -– to $200 for workers and $400 for employees' families. They said the company also demands a $200 deductible for workers' prescription drugs and $400 for family drug plans.
Despite the scathing advertisement, ICC spokesman Thomas Dunn said he is looking forward to a resolution when the parties sit down with a federal mediator to discuss their differences on Wednesday.
"Absolutely we're looking forward to a settlement," Dunn said. "We want to get back to work; we want our people to get back to work."
Since the strike began on Oct. 2, vandals have cut thousands of phone lines throughout the territory, affecting businesses, residents and government offices.
Dunn said the Monday holiday passed without incident, and all the violated lines are back in working order. "Right now we're in the process of doing regular repairs."
He said outside contractors were brought in to help pick up the slack with the union workers on strike, but he would not comment on how many or where they are from.
Calls to the Steelworkers Union on both St. Croix and St. Thomas were not returned Tuesday.
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The United Steelworkers Union, which represents the 310 Innovative employees on the picket lines, took out its own space in the papers to assert what it called misrepresentations by ICC "designed to cover up demands for drastic health care cuts and a two-tiered wage scale."
The Steelworkers said ICC is "deliberately deceiving" the public with claims that the union, in past negotiations, voted in favor of higher wage increases rather than increased pension benefits.
"It's a transparent attempt to create a smokescreen to hide the fact that, despite all the money Innovative is raking in, it's demanding to devastate our members' health care coverage and create a second tier of wages 15 percent lower than the current system," the Steelworkers' ad said.
Innovative said that it offered a wage increase of 10 percent over three years and an increase in pension benefits of 3.7 percent, or wage increases of 6 percent over three years and an increase in pension benefits of 7.41 percent, and that the union opted for the cash.
The union called Innovative's statement a falsification. "Innovative is doing enough harm to negotiations by demanding to double the deductibles on our members' health care, without engaging in deceiving double-talk about our commitment to pensions," the ad said.
The Steelworkers took issue with ICC's proposal to double workers' insurance deductibles -– to $200 for workers and $400 for employees' families. They said the company also demands a $200 deductible for workers' prescription drugs and $400 for family drug plans.
Despite the scathing advertisement, ICC spokesman Thomas Dunn said he is looking forward to a resolution when the parties sit down with a federal mediator to discuss their differences on Wednesday.
"Absolutely we're looking forward to a settlement," Dunn said. "We want to get back to work; we want our people to get back to work."
Since the strike began on Oct. 2, vandals have cut thousands of phone lines throughout the territory, affecting businesses, residents and government offices.
Dunn said the Monday holiday passed without incident, and all the violated lines are back in working order. "Right now we're in the process of doing regular repairs."
He said outside contractors were brought in to help pick up the slack with the union workers on strike, but he would not comment on how many or where they are from.
Calls to the Steelworkers Union on both St. Croix and St. Thomas were not returned Tuesday.
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LOCKHART, STEELE WIN BEACH RELAY RACE
Oct. 15, 2002 – Eighteen teams of two runners each took part in the annual V.I. Pace Runners Coastweeks Beach Relay race Saturday morning at Ha Penny Beach. Amalie Lockhart and Kewoon Steele of Educational Complex High School won the race, which consists of two legs of two miles each.
Their combined time was 26 minutes, 8 seconds. Second place went to Chad Sufrin and Davian Quinland of Central High School in 28:31; Jo Shim and Billy Bohlke took first place in the mixed category and third place overall in 28:38; John and Theresa Harper were second in the mixed category and fourth overall in 31:08.
The next race on the V.I. Pace Runners calendar is the 4-H Cross-Country Series race No. 2 on Wednesday at 4 p.m. UVI, St. Croix Campus.
For more information, call 340-777-0258 or log on on to http://virginislandspace.org.
Results Male Teams: 1. Amalie Lockhart/Kewoon Stelle, ECHS 26:08; 2. Chad Suffrin/Davian Quinland, CHS 28:31; 3. Andrew Petersen/Raffort Mathew, ECHS 32:59; Juan Giron/Frank Petersen, ECHS 33:24.
Results Female Teams: 1. Tiffiny Carrington/Jolene Edwards, CHS 37:43; 2. Julissa Copeman/Wanetta Kirby, CHS 37:43; 3. Tasia Eddy/Shelby Cruz, ECHS 39:58; 4. Melisa Smith/Samantha LaForce, ECHS 42:20; 5. Meoshan
Eddy/Marelle Sylvester, ECHS 43:13; 6. Josette Jeffers/Aminah Williams, ECHS 45:32; 7. Shamika Francis/Lulrika Echevarrio, ECHS 46:24; 8. Maria Arroyo/Tryphena Cuffy, ECHS 51:08; 9. Semoya Phillips/Allison Encarnacion 55:44.
Results Mixed Teams: 1. Jo Shim/Billy Bohlke 28:38; 2. John Harper/Theresa Harper, 31:03; 3. Barrymore Bailey/Makeshe Taylor, CHS 35:17; 4. Earthla Arthur/Stuart Ketcham, UVI 37:43.
Results Overall Teams: 1. Amalie Lockahrt/Kewoon Steele, ECHS 26:08; 2. Chad Suffrin/Davian Quinland, CHS 28:31; 3. Jo Shim/Billy Bohlke 28:38; 4. John Harper/Theresa Harper, 31:03; 5. Andrew Petersen/ Raffort Mathew, ECHS, 32:59; 6. Robert Giron/Frank Petersen, ECHS 33:24; 7. Barrymore Bailey/Makeshe Taylor, CHS 35:17; 8. Earthla Arthur/Stuart Ketcham, UVI 37:43; 9. TiffanyCarrington/Jolene Edwards, CHS 37:43; 10. Julissa Copeman/Wanetta Kirby, CHS 37:43; 11. Tasia Eddy/Shelby Cruz, ECHS 39:58; 12. Myra Muller/George Willocks, 40:43; 13. Melissa Smith/Samantha La Force, ECHS 42:20; 14. Meosha Eddy/Marelle Sylvester, ECHS 43:13; 15. Josette Jeffers/Aminah Williams, ECHS 45:32; 16. Shamika Francis/Lulrika Echevarrio, ECHS 46:24; 17. Maria Arroyo/Tryhpena Cuffy, ECHS 5:08; 18. Semoya Phillips/Allison Encarnacion, ECHS 55:44.
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Their combined time was 26 minutes, 8 seconds. Second place went to Chad Sufrin and Davian Quinland of Central High School in 28:31; Jo Shim and Billy Bohlke took first place in the mixed category and third place overall in 28:38; John and Theresa Harper were second in the mixed category and fourth overall in 31:08.
The next race on the V.I. Pace Runners calendar is the 4-H Cross-Country Series race No. 2 on Wednesday at 4 p.m. UVI, St. Croix Campus.
For more information, call 340-777-0258 or log on on to http://virginislandspace.org.
Results Male Teams: 1. Amalie Lockhart/Kewoon Stelle, ECHS 26:08; 2. Chad Suffrin/Davian Quinland, CHS 28:31; 3. Andrew Petersen/Raffort Mathew, ECHS 32:59; Juan Giron/Frank Petersen, ECHS 33:24.
Results Female Teams: 1. Tiffiny Carrington/Jolene Edwards, CHS 37:43; 2. Julissa Copeman/Wanetta Kirby, CHS 37:43; 3. Tasia Eddy/Shelby Cruz, ECHS 39:58; 4. Melisa Smith/Samantha LaForce, ECHS 42:20; 5. Meoshan
Eddy/Marelle Sylvester, ECHS 43:13; 6. Josette Jeffers/Aminah Williams, ECHS 45:32; 7. Shamika Francis/Lulrika Echevarrio, ECHS 46:24; 8. Maria Arroyo/Tryphena Cuffy, ECHS 51:08; 9. Semoya Phillips/Allison Encarnacion 55:44.
Results Mixed Teams: 1. Jo Shim/Billy Bohlke 28:38; 2. John Harper/Theresa Harper, 31:03; 3. Barrymore Bailey/Makeshe Taylor, CHS 35:17; 4. Earthla Arthur/Stuart Ketcham, UVI 37:43.
Results Overall Teams: 1. Amalie Lockahrt/Kewoon Steele, ECHS 26:08; 2. Chad Suffrin/Davian Quinland, CHS 28:31; 3. Jo Shim/Billy Bohlke 28:38; 4. John Harper/Theresa Harper, 31:03; 5. Andrew Petersen/ Raffort Mathew, ECHS, 32:59; 6. Robert Giron/Frank Petersen, ECHS 33:24; 7. Barrymore Bailey/Makeshe Taylor, CHS 35:17; 8. Earthla Arthur/Stuart Ketcham, UVI 37:43; 9. TiffanyCarrington/Jolene Edwards, CHS 37:43; 10. Julissa Copeman/Wanetta Kirby, CHS 37:43; 11. Tasia Eddy/Shelby Cruz, ECHS 39:58; 12. Myra Muller/George Willocks, 40:43; 13. Melissa Smith/Samantha La Force, ECHS 42:20; 14. Meosha Eddy/Marelle Sylvester, ECHS 43:13; 15. Josette Jeffers/Aminah Williams, ECHS 45:32; 16. Shamika Francis/Lulrika Echevarrio, ECHS 46:24; 17. Maria Arroyo/Tryhpena Cuffy, ECHS 5:08; 18. Semoya Phillips/Allison Encarnacion, ECHS 55:44.
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GOVERNOR PAYS TRIBUTE TO KIRK GRYBOWSKI
Oct. 15, 2002 – Gov. Charles W. Turnbull joined the community on Tuesday in extending condolences to family and friends on the death of Kirk Grybowski, "a well-known community activist and longtime resident of the Virgin Islands," a Government House release stated.
The governor said Grybowski, who died on Oct. 8, "will long be remembered for his many years of community involvement, especially in the area of health, and more specifically his work with the territory's Emergency Medical Technicians and his contributions as director of the emergency medical program for the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The enthusiasm in which he addressed his work carried over in his community service and his love of helping others, which won him the respect of many throughout the territory."
Turnbull added, "On behalf of the people of the United States Virgin Islands, I extend heartfelt sympathies to his wife, Judith, his family and many friends. May God bless you with peace during this time of bereavement."
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The governor said Grybowski, who died on Oct. 8, "will long be remembered for his many years of community involvement, especially in the area of health, and more specifically his work with the territory's Emergency Medical Technicians and his contributions as director of the emergency medical program for the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The enthusiasm in which he addressed his work carried over in his community service and his love of helping others, which won him the respect of many throughout the territory."
Turnbull added, "On behalf of the people of the United States Virgin Islands, I extend heartfelt sympathies to his wife, Judith, his family and many friends. May God bless you with peace during this time of bereavement."
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