October 1st – November 3rd
Appetizers:
Kartoffel Puffer 6.25
Potato pancakes with applesauce and sour cream
Fennel Salad 7.50
Sausage sampler 9.75
Assorted sausages erved with sauerkraut
Soup du jour 5.50
Entrees:
Oktober Fest Platte 20.75 p.p.
Assorted sausages and smoked pork loin served with sauerkraut, potato pancakes, dumplings and potato salad
Pork Tenderloin Medallions 19.75
Bachforelle 21.75
Almond crusted pan fried trout in lemon butter sauce
Tafelspitz 20.75
Boiled beef with a fresh chives cream sauce

Ask about our daily homemade dessert collection
Open Monday – Saturday. Lunch: 11:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Dinner 5:30 to 10 p.m.
Reservations are suggested for dinner, 340-774-4349.

Oct. 25, 2001 – There might be more than music, art, wine, cheese, crackers and good company at this weekend's "Friday Night Alternative" in Red Hook.
At The Color of Joy, which hosts the weekly social get-together, owner Corinne Van Rensselaer has put out the word that if anyone would like to read poetry, there'll be a place for them in the proceedings.
Meantime, house keyboard and vocals artist "Mustang" Sally Smith anchors the music part, with guests all but guaranteed to sit in. "Alternative" music, by the way, should not be confused with "alternative music." Friday's offerings tend toward the traditional — jazz, standards, folk, reggae and, for sure, a little soft rock.
"Alternative" time is 6 to 8 p.m. on the Marlin Deck at American Yacht Harbor. For those heading to St. John at the end of the day, it's a convenient stop, just a few minutes' walk from the Red Hook ferry dock. For further information, call 775-4020.

Oct. 25, 2001 – There might be more than music, art, wine, cheese, crackers and good company at this weekend's "Friday Night Alternative" in Red Hook.
At The Color of Joy, which hosts the weekly social get-together, owner Corinne Van Rensselaer has put out the word that if anyone would like to read poetry, there'll be a place for them in the proceedings.
Meantime, house keyboard and vocals artist "Mustang" Sally Smith anchors the music part, with guests all but guaranteed to sit in. "Alternative" music, by the way, should not be confused with "alternative music." Friday's offerings tend toward the traditional — jazz, standards, folk, reggae and, for sure, a little soft rock.
"Alternative" time is 6 to 8 p.m. on the Marlin Deck of American Yacht Harbor. For St. John residents heading home to St. John at the end of the day, it's a convenient stop just a few minutes' walk from the Red Hook ferry dock. For further information, call 775-4020.

Meetings for retired government employees are scheduled for health insurance enrollment. On St. John, the Group Insurance meetings will be held from 9 to 11 a.m. and 1 to 3 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 2, at the Legislature Building in Cruz Bay.
These meetings will give information about the new medical and dental plans. They will also give current enrollment information.
Be sure to bring along all necessary documents, including beneficiary designation information.

For more information contact the Health Insurance Office at 714-5000.

Oct. 25, 2001 – The Best Western Carib Beach Resort expects to reopen in December, manager Joel Kling said Thursday.
He said the hotel closed for renovations on Sept. 1 and was to have reopened on Sept. 22. But a lack of business after the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon has kept the property closed.
"We were not doing too well before Sept. 11," Kling said. He said that low summer rates at larger chain properties in St. Thomas had fallen to only a little more than those at Carib Beach. "People would rather go to those places," Kling said.
Carib Beach's 60 rooms puts it in the mid-range size for St. Thomas. Its amenities are more modest than the larger properties. It carries the Best Western name, Kling said, but St. Thomas businessman William Dowling, who built the hotel in the 1950s, holds the franchise.
Kling said he shifted the few reservations Carib Beach had for the fall months to its sister property, the nearby Best Western Emerald Beach Resort. He serves as manager of both properties, located at opposite ends of Lindbergh Bay. across the road from the Cyril E. King Airport.
He said the closure forced him to lay off about 15 people, most of them in the restaurant and housekeeping departments. Some of the staff is now working at Emerald Beach, and he said he expects to rehire most of those laid off when the Carib Beach reopens.
Emerald Beach, which opened about a decade ago, "is surviving. We've had no layoffs," he said, although some employees have had their hours cut. He declined to give specifics.
Kling said he is worried about the coming season and, so far, bookings for November are "sluggish."
But he said it's a problem worldwide. Occupancy rates in Paris are running around 40 to 50 percent now, he said, whereas before Sept. 11 it was usually difficult to find a vacant room.
Lorette Resch, who owns Island Beachcomber Hotel, a small beach-front property between the two Best Western hotels, said that her business dropped dramatically this fall.
She has kept the hotel open with a few business people and visitors spending their first or last nights of a British Virgin Islands or sailboat charter vacation. "There's very few real tourists here," she said.
Although Resch is not ready to throw in the towel, she said she's not up to date on her electric bill and payments to the Port Authority from which she leases the land where the hotel sits. She has laid off all but a dozen of her 30 employees. "It does not look good," she said.
She said her hotel rooms go for "whatever I can get." Often now, the price drops as low as $50, less than half the usual rate for this time of year.
While Christmas is booking up, Resch said, those bookings are from elderly repeat guests who come year after year. She noted they've been telling her they had no trouble booking an airplane seat, an unusual situation this close to the yearend holidays.

Oct. 25, 2001 – For as long as most Joseph Sibilly School parents can remember, the annual Halloween party on the school grounds, presented by the Parent Teacher Association as a fund-raiser to benefit the school, has been one of the highlights of the year for pupils, family members and friends.
The event — featuring kid-oriented games, contests, music, food and drink, and the ever-popular haunted house — has typically attracted hundreds of people and raised $2,000 to $3,000, according to PTA president Sam Charles.
This year's Halloween fest was scheduled for Friday evening.
But on Wednesday afternoon, the children carried home from school a letter to their parents from Principal Dora Esquerdo stating that by directive of Education Commissioner Ruby Simmonds, the event had been canceled.
"No reason was given in the letter," Charles said. He said Esquerdo "tried to get a reason for the cancellation from Dr. Simmonds," and she was unable to do so.
"Probably a month's worth of work by close to 30 parents on various committees" had gone into the planning for the event, Charles said. All of the efforts were volunteer, "and it was a considerable amount of work, and all to benefit school programs," he said.
This year's event was expected to be bigger and better than ever — with the new enticement of free admission. A token admission of a couple of dollars had been charged in previous years. "It would have been an extra incentive to get people out," Charles said. "You'd encourage people to spend more on the food and activities, and you'd get the money anyway."
Charles's wife, Mona, a committee member, said Esquerdo telephoned her at work on Wednesday "as soon as she got the directive."
For the PTA, Mona Charles noted, "This is our biggest event of the year. I guess we'll have to think of something else."
Her husband has already been doing some thinking and has a tentative plan: "We're going to rename our event Family Night and have it in November." Same format, same time, same place, but no wicked witches, goblins or haunted house. "It'll be like a little carnival, a November fest," he said.
Esquerdo was taking part in a Red Ribbon Week anti-drug march Thursday and could not be reached for comment. A telephoned message left for Simmonds was not answered.
Halloween parties a-plenty
There will be plenty of other Halloween parties for youngsters on St. Thomas, however, even though some planners acknowledge that, given the scary stuff that's been going on in the world since Sept. 11, it might be better not to celebrate Halloween in ways intended to instill fright.
That's the view Coral World Marine Park general manager Trudie Prior expressed. "It's a matter of good taste and judgment," she said. While there have been some cancellations of Halloween events out of concern that they would frighten children, Prior called that overreacting. "I don't think we should deny them a good time," she said of the youngsters.
Prior said Coral World plans to proceed with its annual Halloween party, set for Saturday from noon to 5 p.m. Children under age 12 in costume get in for free, but each must be accompanied by an adult; the local adult entry fee is $8.
Coral World marketing manager Allegra Kean said the event will feature face painting, fish feeding, drawing of temporary tattoos, games like Pin the Nose on the Pumpkin, visits to a "Spook Room" and fortune telling. ("All good fortunes," she promised.)
Kean said a costume contest will begin at 3 p.m. Prizes will be given in different age groups and for the "most creative" get-ups. Each child will get a bag of candy to take home.
The Children's Reading Program at the Enid M. Baa Library also will have a Halloween party on Saturday, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Children ages 3 to 12 and their parents or guardians are invited to come in costume and enjoy games, spooky stories, snacks and fun.
Tutu Park Mall on St. Thomas also is planning Halloween festivities for kids on Saturday, from 1 to 6 p.m. The fun is open to children under the age of 12, and they must be accompanied by an adult.
Mall marketing director Pam Morales said personnel at stores in the mall will pass out candy to children in costume who stop by. "This is indoor trick-or-treating," she said, calling it a safe way for children to enjoy the holiday. All youngsters should bring their own "treat" bags.
In addition to the mall-wide treating, the Sweet Kisses candy store in the mall will celebrate its first anniversary with a "spooky party" that will include a costume contest and music by DJ Creepy of Big Bout Productions.
Also on Saturday at 10 a.m., the Estate Bovoni Weed and Seed program is having its second annual "Boo to Drugs" Halloween party, sports and fun day at the Bovoni site. Zelda Williams, program manager, said the event also is to celebrate the annual Red Ribbon Week, "saying no to drugs," and she expects a big turnout.
Williams said the morning will feature volleyball, softball, kickball, basketball and a boxing demonstration, with music and lunch to follow. In the afternoon, there will be a presentation on drug abuse, and National Guard and Police Crime Prevention Unit personnel will show the youngsters how dogs work in detecting drugs. Also on tap are a mini-fashion show, a magic show, dancing, treats, door prizes, a raffle and a limbo and fire-eating finale.
The Weed and Seed program is run under the V.I. Housing Authority and sponsored by the U. S. Department of Justice. Its strategy is to weed out crime and seed neighborhoods with positive programs.
On Halloween itself, Wednesday, a couple of events for youngsters are planned.
Pistarckle Theater is holding "an alternative Halloween" celebration at the theater in Tillett Gardens Wednesday from 3 to 7 p.m. Admission is $5 for children and $10 for adults. There'll be a best mask contest.
At the Hull Bay Hideaway, there'll be a family-oriented party starting at 7 p.m. Wednesday with games and candy for youngsters and announcement of best-costume awards at 9 p.m., in time to get the youngsters home and to bed at a reasonable hour on a school night.
Halloween — short for "hallowed evening" — began with an ancient Celtic belief that on Oct. 31 the Lord of Death released the souls of the dead back to Earth. While some still observe the date's occult traditions and some connect it with the Christian All Souls' Day, Halloween has for generations been mainly a secular holiday for most Americans.
The only public pronouncements regarding Halloween locally have come from the Police Department. On Oct. 17, Police Commissioner Franz Christian strongly suggested in a press release that Halloween this year should be "a night for family fun," as opposed to children going out trick-or-treating door to door. And, definitely, no child should be allowed on the streets alone at night, he said.
Christian also said police patrols would "saturate the territory" to prevent tragedies and crimes by anyone who might try to "turn Halloween into 'Devil's Day.'"

Oct. 25, 2001 – Eight Syrian nationals arrested Wednesday afternoon after a six-week stay at a downtown guest house were slated to appear in U.S. District Court at mid-day to face charges of illegally entering the United States.
The eight were arrested at the Bunker Hill Guest House near Garden Street around 4 p.m. Wednesday. It was unclear whether federal and local police authorities were tipped off about the illegals residing at the guest house.
Police officers cordoned off the Bunker Hill street leading from the Mafolie road down to Commandant Gade and a nearby side street while the officers took the eight immigrants into custody and processed them in advance of the initial court appearance.
The arrests followed the apprehension of more than 90 illegal Chinese immigrants on St. John in the last week, all of whom were taken into custody after being let off of boats to make their way ashore.
Citing the recent influx of illegal immigrants, Senate President Almando "Rocky" Liburd has called on Gov. Charles W. Turnbull to assess the needs of the territory in terms of law-enforcement personnel to counter the arrival of "illegal aliens on our shores." Liburd, in a broadcast interview, said the time has come "for us to address what has becoming an increasing problem in the territory." He asked the governor to meet with federal immigration and police officials to develop a strategy aimed at increasing patrols of the territory’s shorelines.

The Rotary Club of St. John will meet at 12:30 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 26, at Westin's Beach Cafe. Representatives of the Coral Bay School will discus the plans for the school's expansion.

The Rotary Club of St. John will meet at Westin's Beach Cafe. Representatives of the Coral Bay School will speak about the plans for the school's expansion.

The Virgin Islands Housing Authority advises the public that the 2nd Section 8 Landlord/Agent Conference will be held from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 31, at Gertrude's Restaurant.
The conference will provide an overview of the Section 8 Rental Assistance Program offered by the Athority. It will also provide the opportunity for additional property owners to offer rental units for families in need.
To register for the conference call the Secion 8 ofice at 773-3525, ext. 405.
The VIHA Department of Section 8 Programs on St. Croix will be closed on that day from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. so the staff can participate.