Sept. 17, 2002 – The names of applicants who passed the V.I. Bar Examination that was given July 31 and Aug. 1, 2002 have been announced in a release from the V.I. Committee of Bar Examiners.
In alphabetical order, they are: Aaron T. Albold, David A. Bentley, Zane T. Cagle, Lynn J. De Severino, Kathryn J. Depree, Deborah E. Frimmel, Onik'a I. Gilliam, Leigh F. Goldman, Patrick D. Hagler, Gabriela M. Haley, Scott S. Henderson, and Christine M. La Place.
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Sept. 16, 2002 – One of the Legislature's Fiscal Year 2003 revenue fund raids has prompted the agency with oversight for the money to issue a public call for the governor to veto what it regards as an inappropriate appropriation.
In a release Monday, the Casino Control Commission said the Legislature "has tapped the Casino Revenue Fund as the source of a $125,000 grant awarded to the Young Men's Christian Association." It asked Gov. Charles W. Turnbull to line item veto that appropriation.
The release notes that by law the agencies and programs slated to receive Casino Revenue Fund money are the Education Department, Internal Revenue Bureau, the Health Department and hospitals and gambling addiction and education programs.
Since March 2000, about $3 million in casino gross revenue taxes has been collected and deposited into the fund, the release stated.
If the YMCA receives the $125,000, the commission executive director, Shawna Richards, said, "then every agency that is identified to receive [money] from the Casino Revenue Fund will receive less than they are entitled to."
She said the commission is asking Turnbull to "consider the provisions and purposes of the casino legislation and veto this additional appropriation."

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Sept. 16, 2002 – One of the Legislature's Fiscal Year 2003 revenue fund raids has prompted the agency with oversight for the money to issue a public call for the governor to veto what it regards as an inappropriate appropriation.
In a release Monday, the Casino Control Commission said the Legislature "has tapped the Casino Revenue Fund as the source of a $125,000 grant awarded to the Young Men's Christian Association." It asked Gov. Charles W. Turnbull to line item veto that appropriation.
The release notes that by law the agencies and programs slated to receive Casino Revenue Fund money are the Education Department, Internal Revenue Bureau, the Health Department and hospitals and gambling addiction and education programs.
Since March 2000, about $3 million in casino gross revenue taxes has been collected and deposited into the fund, the release stated.
If the YMCA receives the $125,000, the commission executive director, Shawna Richards, said, "then every agency that is identified to receive [money] from the Casino Revenue Fund will receive less than they are entitled to."
She said the commission is asking Turnbull to "consider the provisions and purposes of the casino legislation and veto this additional appropriation."

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Sept. 16, 2002 – One of the Legislature's Fiscal Year 2003 revenue fund raids has prompted the agency with oversight for the money to issue a public call for the governor to veto what it regards as an inappropriate appropriation.
In a release Monday, the Casino Control Commission said the Legislature "has tapped the Casino Revenue Fund as the source of a $125,000 grant awarded to the Young Men's Christian Association." It asked Gov. Charles W. Turnbull to line item veto that appropriation.
The release notes that by law the agencies and programs slated to receive Casino Revenue Fund money are the Education Department, Internal Revenue Bureau, the Health Department and hospitals and gambling addiction and education programs.
Since March 2000, about $3 million in casino gross revenue taxes has been collected and deposited into the fund, the release stated.
If the YMCA receives the $125,000, the commission executive director, Shawna Richards, said, "then every agency that is identified to receive [money] from the Casino Revenue Fund will receive less than they are entitled to."
She said the commission is asking Turnbull to "consider the provisions and purposes of the casino legislation and veto this additional appropriation."

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Sept. 16, 2002 – St. Thomas Source is a finalist in the 2002 Online Journalism Awards, presented by the Online News Association and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
The finalists for the third annual Online Journalism Awards were announced Monday by the two organizations.
The competition, which honors excellence in Internet journalism, received 728 entries from 10 countries this year and was judged by a team of distinguished journalism leaders, according to a release from OJA.
In announcing the award finalists, Bruce Koon, president of ONA and executive news editor of Knight Ridder Digital, said, "We know the digital medium continues to grow as a news source for the public and therefore we anticipated many quality entries in this year's awards program. But the depth and diversity of the entries were even more outstanding than expected.
"That reflects an awful lot of hard work and commitment by online news teams and individuals, and accomplished in what are tough economic times. All journalists, regardless of where they ply their craft, should be proud of these efforts."
The Source is one of four finalists in the General Excellence category for independent Internet publications with under 200,000 unique visitors per month.
"This category honors a Web site with fewer than 200,000 unique visitors per month that successfully fulfills its editorial mission, effectively serves its audience, maximizes the unique abilities of the Web and represents the highest journalistic standards," according to the OJA release. The sites were judged on excellence of content, interactivity, multimedia, design, navigation and community tools.
"I am thrilled, naturally," Shaun A. Pennington, publisher of St. Thomas Source, said Monday night, "but I am not that surprised. We have an excellent product put together by a group of consummate professionals who have a complete commitment to this community and to ethical journalism. But I guess when you look at the list of finalists for these awards, it really is pretty awesome — wow!"
For the complete list of finalists, see the Online Journalism Awards Web site.
A two-step process was used to determine the finalists and the winners, which will be announced Oct. 18 in New York City.
First, a group of more than 100 international journalists, working remotely in teams of two, screened and narrowed the scores of entries in each category to a set of 5-10 nominees.
Then, these nominees were reviewed by the OJA final judges — 12 journalists with extensive experience in new and old mass media — who met at Columbia University last week to pick the finalists and the winners. The awards will be presented during the third national conference of the Online News Association, set for Oct. 18- 19 in New York.
Pennington said she plans to be there, "along with a few of the people who have been involved from the very beginning."
St. Thomas Source was launched on Jan. 15, 1999. This is the first time the newspaper has entered a journalism competition.
"We know we play a unique role in mass communication within the community we serve and that our readership has come to rely on us for unbiased, uncensored news coverage," Jean Etsinger, Source senior editor, said. "We thought it was time to see how we measured up in the journalism profession as a whole. Being named a finalist is very, very gratifying."
The final judges of this year's competition were:
– Bruce Koon, Knight Ridder Digital & ONA president
– Robert Anthony, freelance
– Dorian Benkoil, ABC News.com
– John Garcia, NBC
– Bernie Gwertzman, The New York Times
– Jamie Heller, The Wall Street Journal
– Scott Horner, Fort Lauderdale Sun_Sentinel
– Rich Jaroslovsky, Ziff Brothers Investments
– Walt Mossberg, The Wall Street Journal
– Lisa Napoli, freelance
– Steve Outing, The Poynter Institute
– Joe Weiss, Durham Herald_Sun
The Online Journalism Awards are among several major journalism awards administered by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Others are the Pulitzer Prizes, the National Magazine Awards, the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Awards for broadcast journalism, and the Maria Moors Cabot Prizes for inter-American understanding.

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The Texas Society of the Virgin Islands will hold its 18th Annual Chili Cook-off at Sapphire Beach Resort and Marina. Chili cooks will compete for prizes in chili and in showmanship. Music, games and fun for the entire family in addition to the food.
Satellite parking will be available at the St. Thomas Swimming Association and at Sugar Bay Beach Resort with shuttles to Sapphire.
All proceeds will benefit the Queen Louise Home, local chapter of the American Red Cross, St. Thomas Rescue, St. Thomas Swimming Association, Virgin islands Institute of Performing Arts, Family Support Network, KidScope and Dial-A-Ride.

Leon Isodore Quetel, age 77, of #59 Altona, St. Thomas, died Saturday, Sept. 14, at the Roy L. Schneider Hospital. His funeral will be at 9 a.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 17, at St. Anns Catholic Church, French Town.
He is survived by his wife Margarita Quetel; son Hector Quetel; daughters Marilyn Priday and Yvonne N. Quetel; 4 grandchildren and many other relatives and friends.

Sept. 16, 2002 – Heavy rains and lightning brought on by a weekend storm left Virgin Islanders throughout the territory without power early Monday morning, with the situation compounded on St. Thomas, St. John and Water Island by technical problems at the main Krumm Bay plant on St. Thomas.
A Water and Power Authority spokesperson said that as of 5:23 a.m., virtually all of the utility's 25,000 customers in the territory were without power. For most, service was restored by later Monday morning, but the outage affected several public schools on St. Thomas.
"Practically all of the schools were affected, but the one with the greatest impact was Michael Kirwan," William Frett, St. Thomas-St. John district schools superintendent, said. The elementary school located near the University of the Virgin Islands campus "had to be dismissed," he said.
On St. Croix, rain and lightning caused Feeder 10 to trip twice for some five to 10 minutes around 10 p.m. Sunday and again at 6:45 a.m. Monday, WAPA reported, and brief outages were reported in isolated areas of the island.
WAPA crews were working on pockets that remained powerless on St. Thomas and St. Croix through mid-day.
Glenn Rothgeb, WAPA acting executive director, said the problems that knocked out power on St. Croix were minor, brought on by rain and lightning that blew some fuses, but on St. Thomas, the problems were more involved.
"With the rain last night, we did have some damage to the plant," Rothgeb, a former chief engineer with the authority, said. "On two units we had a flash-over, so we have two units down."
A release issued by WAPA later stated that "an electrical flash-over caused by water damage on Unit 12's generator bus conductors tripped the entire plant. Unit 18 also had a similar, subsequent flash-over at its bus conductors but was less severe and limited to the unit itself."
The situation worsened briefly on St. Thomas as workers at the main power plant in Krumm Bay improperly started a burner supplying power for two electricity feeders, sending a spiral of smoke high into the air over the plant. "What happened was the burners just tripped out on Unit 12," Rothgeb said. "They were going through quite a few things at the same time. By relighting and restarting it, they put in too much oil and not enough air."
Callers trying to reach WAPA to report power outages faced the additional frustration of telephone problems at the utility's executive offices on St. Thomas.
WAPA "completed restoration of all electrical service in the St. Thomas-St. John-Water Island district at 12:45 p.m. by putting additional units on line and trying feeders together," the release stated.
By Monday afternoon, Rothgeb said, the biggest task remaining was restarting one of the large generators at the Krumm Bay plant, which he said could take another day. Electrical service should not be immediately affected by having one generator out of service, he said, projecting that most customers would have power restored by the end of Monday.

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Sept. 16, 2002 – Heavy rains and lightning brought on by a weekend storm left Virgin Islanders throughout the territory without power early Monday morning, with the situation compounded on St. Thomas, St. John and Water Island by technical problems at the main Krumm Bay plant on St. Thomas.
A Water and Power Authority spokesperson said that as of 5:23 a.m., virtually all of the utility's 25,000 customers in the territory were without power. For most, service was restored by later Monday morning, but the outage affected several public schools on St. Thomas.
"Practically all of the schools were affected, but the one with the greatest impact was Michael Kirwan," William Frett, St. Thomas-St. John district schools superintendent, said. The elementary school located near the University of the Virgin Islands campus "had to be dismissed," he said.
On St. Croix, rain and lightning caused Feeder 10 to trip twice for some five to 10 minutes around 10 p.m. Sunday and again at 6:45 a.m. Monday, WAPA reported, and brief outages were reported in isolated areas of the island.
WAPA crews were working on pockets that remained powerless on St. Thomas and St. Croix through mid-day.
Glenn Rothgeb, WAPA acting executive director, said the problems that knocked out power on St. Croix were minor, brought on by rain and lightning that blew some fuses, but on St. Thomas, the problems were more involved.
"With the rain last night, we did have some damage to the plant," Rothgeb, a former chief engineer with the authority, said. "On two units we had a flash-over, so we have two units down."
A release issued by WAPA later stated that "an electrical flash-over caused by water damage on Unit 12's generator bus conductors tripped the entire plant. Unit 18 also had a similar, subsequent flash-over at its bus conductors but was less severe and limited to the unit itself."
The situation worsened briefly on St. Thomas as workers at the main power plant in Krumm Bay improperly started a burner supplying power for two electricity feeders, sending a spiral of smoke high into the air over the plant. "What happened was the burners just tripped out on Unit 12," Rothgeb said. "They were going through quite a few things at the same time. By relighting and restarting it, they put in too much oil and not enough air."
Callers trying to reach WAPA to report power outages faced the additional frustration of telephone problems at the utility's executive offices on St. Thomas.
WAPA "completed restoration of all electrical service in the St. Thomas-St. John-Water Island district at 12:45 p.m. by putting additional units on line and trying feeders together," the release stated.
By Monday afternoon, Rothgeb said, the biggest task remaining was restarting one of the large generators at the Krumm Bay plant, which he said could take another day. Electrical service should not be immediately affected by having one generator out of service, he said, projecting that most customers would have power restored by the end of Monday.

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Sept. 16, 2002 – Heavy rains and lightning brought on by a weekend storm left Virgin Islanders throughout the territory without power early Monday morning, with the situation compounded on St. Thomas, St. John and Water Island by technical problems at the main Krumm Bay plant on St. Thomas.
A Water and Power Authority spokesperson said that as of 5:23 a.m., virtually all of the utility's 25,000 customers in the territory were without power. For most, service was restored by later Monday morning, but the outage affected several public schools on St. Thomas.
"Practically all of the schools were affected, but the one with the greatest impact was Michael Kirwan," William Frett, St. Thomas-St. John district schools superintendent, said. The elementary school located near the University of the Virgin Islands campus "had to be dismissed," he said.
On St. Croix, rain and lightning caused Feeder 10 to trip twice for some five to 10 minutes around 10 p.m. Sunday and again at 6:45 a.m. Monday, WAPA reported, and brief outages were reported in isolated areas of the island.
WAPA crews were working on pockets that remained powerless on St. Thomas and St. Croix through mid-day.
Glenn Rothgeb, WAPA acting executive director, said the problems that knocked out power on St. Croix were minor, brought on by rain and lightning that blew some fuses, but on St. Thomas, the problems were more involved.
"With the rain last night, we did have some damage to the plant," Rothgeb, a former chief engineer with the authority, said. "On two units we had a flash-over, so we have two units down."
A release issued by WAPA later stated that "an electrical flash-over caused by water damage on Unit 12's generator bus conductors tripped the entire plant. Unit 18 also had a similar, subsequent flash-over at its bus conductors but was less severe and limited to the unit itself."
The situation worsened briefly on St. Thomas as workers at the main power plant in Krumm Bay improperly started a burner supplying power for two electricity feeders, sending a spiral of smoke high into the air over the plant. "What happened was the burners just tripped out on Unit 12," Rothgeb said. "They were going through quite a few things at the same time. By relighting and restarting it, they put in too much oil and not enough air."
Callers trying to reach WAPA to report power outages faced the additional frustration of telephone problems at the utility's executive offices on St. Thomas.
WAPA "completed restoration of all electrical service in the St. Thomas-St. John-Water Island district at 12:45 p.m. by putting additional units on line and trying feeders together," the release stated.
By Monday afternoon, Rothgeb said, the biggest task remaining was restarting one of the large generators at the Krumm Bay plant, which he said could take another day. Electrical service should not be immediately affected by having one generator out of service, he said, projecting that most customers would have power restored by the end of Monday.

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