The Environmental Association of St. Thomas and St. John will hold its monthly board meeting at the East Office.
For more information call 776-1976.

The Environmental Association of St. Thomas and St. John will hold its monthly board meeting at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 13, at the East Office.
For more information call 776-1976.

The Environmental Association of St. Thomas and St. John will hold its monthly board meeting at the East Office. For more information call 776-1976.

The Environmental Association of St. Thomas and St. John will hold its montly board meeting at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 13, at the East Office.
For more information cll 776-1976.

The Rotary Club of St. Thomas II will hold it regular meeting at Marriott's Frenchman's Reef Beach Resort with Pricilla Hintz of the Red Cross as guest speaker. Her topic will be "Mission to Ground Zero in New York City."

The Rotary Club of St. Thomas II will hold its regular meeting at 12:15 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 7, at Marriott's Frenchman's Reef Resort.
Priscilla Hintz of the Red Cross will be the guest speaker. The topic will be "Mission to Ground Zero in New York City."

Nov. 5, 2001 – "The Caribbean Writer," an international literary anthology with a Caribbean focus, published by the University of the Virgin Islands, is currently seeking submissions for Volume 16 (2002).
The Caribbean should be central to the work, or the work should reflect a Caribbean heritage, experience or perspective.
Writers may submit poems, short stories, personal essays and one-act plays. Only previously unpublished work will be considered. (If self-published, give details.) Include brief biographical information and put name, address, telephone number, e-mail address (if any) and title of manuscript on a separate sheet of paper. Only the title should appear on the manuscript itself.
All submissions are eligible for the following prizes: The Canute A. Brodhurst Prize for best short story; The Daily News Prize for best poetry; The David Hough Literary Prize to a Caribbean author, The Marguerite Cobb-McKay Prize to a Virgin Islands author and The Charlotte and Isidor Paiewonsky Prize for first-time publication in The Caribbean Writer.
Mail submissions to: The Caribbean Writer, University of the Virgin Islands, RR 02, Box 10,000, Kingshill, St. Croix VI 00850, or submit them electronically to qmars@uvi.edu.
The deadline for submissions is Nov. 30, 2001 (postmarked).
For more information, call (340) 692-4152 or visit the Caribbean Writer web site.

Sept. 11 changed the world as we knew it. A by-product of the atrocities is the engendering questions of who we are as a nation and who we are, personally, as human beings. It created a new thermometer that measures how mercurial is our inner strength, how high is our resilience to pain, what apex is possible in an environment that isn’t secure like it used to be.
Our son was a vice president of Cantor Fitzgerald working on the 105th floor of Tower One, WTC. Compassionate, always curious, handsome and successful – between the plane hitting the building and its immolation from jet fuel – Christian managed to call his wife and three young children to say goodbye. As I write this, I can feel myself sinking into that abyss of sadness that I have never known before, but have frequently experienced since that dreadful day. But I won’t fall there today, because I have the armament of anger to pull me up, up and away.
Bob and I decided to move downtown in July into a floor of a four story historic home. We were thrilled by its inner arches: the space, light and remnants of Charlotte Amalie circa 1790. On Sept. 6 an intruder came in and took my handbag, Bob’s glasses, my watch and the portable phone and casing. We filed a police report. Two weeks later, my car was sideswiped by someone careening along Back Street – in the wrong direction – in the middle of the night. We filed a police report. Ten days ago leaving for work, we went to get into my car and his van, respectively, and found the windows totally bashed in. We filed a police report.
At this point, Bob visited police headquarters to ask if there was a program to take the streets of downtown back from the thugs. He asked for greater police presence, car patrolling and foot patrolmen in the downtown area during the night. He asked if anyone worked an 11 p.m. to 7 a.m. shift. After an hour and a half, he had no answers and was in receipt of polite disinterest.
Last Saturday, Nov. 3, our 8-week-old Dalmatian puppy, whom we purchased three weeks ago, got out of the house and ran down the outside steps and through the gate to follow Bob to work. It was 7 a.m. and I called to him to come back. In the two minutes it took me to get the keys to the gate, he was gone. Eyewitnesses saw two men stop their car, pick him up and take him away.
Bob and I have posted a reward for his return. No questions asked. But, we are asking the good people of St. Thomas to keep an eye out for him. If someone tries to sell you this purebred…call us first. If you see him anywhere….call us. After all, in these terrible times, he made us laugh. We did not file a police report.
Please contact Bob at 690-2964 or at Coral World at 775-1555 ext. 249.
Ruth Butler
St. Thomas, VI

Michael Green of St. Lucia was the overall winner of the St. Croix International Match Race. Two days of match racing action at was condensed into one day of racing on Sunday due to the complete lack of wind on Saturday forcing a reduced schedule.
On Sunday the wind was from the southeast at about 10 knots. The race committee held enough races and round robins to declare a winner. There were 12 round robins, about 15 minutes each, starting at 9 a.m. The second runoff consisted of six races with the top four boats from the round robin competing. The third and final match was three races to determine the top two finishers.
Chase boats, mark boats, and umpire boats were on the water until about 2:30 p.m.
Results were as follows: Michael Green of St. Lucia was the overall winner, Scott Stanton of St. Croix took second and Chris Rosenberg of St. Thomas placed third. St. Croix’s Chris Schreiber was fourth followed by Andrew Waters of BVI tied for fifth with Karl James of Antigua, Fletcher Pitts of St. John tied for sixth place with Frits Bus of St. Maarten. The Race Committee is already planning next year's third annual match racing event.

Nov. 4, 2001 – Pack your bags, stock up on sun block and get a house sitter for the dog. Veterans Day weekend is the time to check yourself into one of the territory's larger resort hotels while the room rates are rock-bottom low.
Most have dropped their prices even lower for locals. The three-day weekend would be a good time to take advantage of the opportunity before the water gets "too cold to swim in" for those accustomed to tropical climes.
Many, but not all, of the rates are good until December. So, if you've got other plans for Veterans Day weekend, or if the hotel of your choice has sold out, another time soon will make an equally nice getaway.
Unless otherwise noted, rates quoted here are for double occupancy of a room and do not include the territory's 8 percent room tax. Some hotels also add a service charge, so check when reserving.
Not all of the territory's larger hotels could be reached for information, and not all of those contacted are offering locals' rates for the long weekend that are exceptionally low. If you have a favorite not mentioned here, call on your own to see what they can do for you.
St. Thomas: The Renaissance Grand Beach Resort is charging $79 a night for a room with an island view. Front desk operator Errol Rogers said the ocean view rooms are already booked up for the holiday weekend.
At the Wyndham Sugar Bay Beach Club and Resort, a package consisting of a room; breakfast, lunch and dinner for two; and the use of non-motorized watersports toys such as kayaks can be had for $195 a night. "That includes taxes and gratuities," reservations agent Verna Ralph said.
At the Ritz-Carlton St. Thomas Resort, the current locals rate is $125 per person per night. The rooms sleep up to four people.
Marriott's Frenchman's Reef Beach Resort has a room rate for locals of $125 per night. "That's a resort view with a double or king bed," executive assistant Sharon Flamon said.
St. Croix: A room at the Divi Carina Bay Resort can be had for $91.80 per night, including the occupancy tax. That's the resort with the casino, of course.
Sunterra Carambola Beach Resort offers rooms for $110 to $130 a night, with the lower-rate rooms having lesser views. "It lets locals experience the resort and enjoy our fine dining," front desk manager Michael Marshall said, explaining why the hotel discounts rates for locals during the slower months.
Marshall also said the hotel's Friday night Pirates Buffet draws large crowds. It's priced at $29.95 for adults, $14.95 for children ages 6 to 12, and $5.95 for children under 6.
St. John: A room at the Westin Resort can be had for $89 a night. That's even lower than the hotel's usual low summer rate for locals. Operations manager Graham Davis said the hotel had 10 rooms left as of Friday, but more might become available if cancellations come in.
Davis said not all of the Westin's 349 rooms and villas are ready for guests. Eighty of them are in the midst of renovations, a job planned before hotel occupancy plummeted in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Caneel Bay Resort, discreet getaway of the rich and famous, has rooms for locals right now for $125 a night.
Along with such stunningly low prices at the major resorts, you'll also find off-season rates and discounts for locals at mid-size and smaller hotels.
At Secret Harbour Beach Resort on St. Thomas, locals get a 20 percent discount, which drops the price as low as $143 a night.
If you want to get in a little scuba diving on your getaway, you might head for The Waves at Cane Bay on St. Croix. The oceanfront resort includes tanks, weights and airfoils in its room rate of $75 per night.
And on St. John, The Inn at Tamarind Court gives a 10 percent locals discount, which drops the price to $76.